Iceland #johnlehetphoto

From an email from my local food shelf: "We also know that economic impacts and personal safety threats stemming from current and pending policy changes will likely worsen food security for individuals and families in Vermont.” Whoah.

White Peony and Two Alliums #johnlehetphoto #vintagelens #bloomscrolling #garden

Antoni Arissa #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #filmphotography

Red Door, Old Greenhouse Let's call this number 37 in the left to right of the currently hanging #DHMC show. I've posted this before on Mastodon. I don't remember thinking of it explicitly, but I now realize that besides carrying the red door forward, it also has […] [Original post on mas.to]

Antoni Arissa 1900 - 1980 #OldMasters #FilmPhotography #blackandwhite

Trout Brook into Post Pond, Evening I think this is the 36th photo in my #DHMCShow. My photo of the wall shows only a shadow of a print to its left, and I clearly broke from my plan here. I’ll have to get back with #35 #johnlehetphoto

I can sort of understand how half the US population is asleep or under the influence of propaganda or hateful ideologies. I can’t understand how institutional investors are just going along as if nothing is happening. The dominoes Musk has knocked over will knock over many other dominoes. I […]

Edouard Boubat #OldMasters #FilmPhotography #BlackandWhite #streetphotography

Four Red Doors Reflected on Ice The 34th photo in my #DHMCshow is a bit funny. It's always a bit hard to sort out what works in general, beyond, “I like this a lot but I'm crazy.” This print just barely made it into the show. I think if I hadn't been having trouble […] [Original post on mas.to]

Anyone know what’s going on with proposed Net Metering changes in #vermont?

Toni Schneiders #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #FilmPhotography #StreetPhotography #caturday

Ferns by Birches The 33rd photo in the #DHMCShow, printed and framed small, like the last one. This one is on etching paper for the bokeh to use the paper texture. #johnlehetphoto #vintagelens

Bill Frisell Trio 2023 WDR Leverkusener Jazztage https://archive.org/details/bill-frisell-trio-2023-wdr-leverkusener-jazztage

Toni Schneiders #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #filmphotography

Oak Leaf and Hemlock Sprig in Spring Ice We're onto a new little panel in the #DHMCShow, with a few intimate images. This, the 32nd print, is small here (I always print it small). It has remained one of my favorite photos for years, though I suspect not everyone is […] [Original post on mas.to]

Toni Schneider #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #filmphotography

Leaf and Splash, Birch Trunk Reflections, Autumn The 31st print left to right in the #DHMCShow, 22 x 28 frame. I might go in there and swap in a different print which can have the same title and price (so nobody there has to make a new label or edit the price list) […] [Original post on mas.to]

Frost Flowers on Trout Brook The 30th print in the #dhmcshow. In a 22 x 28 frame.

Orange and Scarlet Begonias, Drenched Window Screen This is the 29th photo L->R in the currently hanging show. In this case it was not set up, but that screen had been left out in the rain. I saw it. “OK John, it's time to go! “Um, just a few minutes here? I have […] [Original post on mas.to]

This time that's suddenly so much darker is at least kicking up my meditation practice. And instead of listening to fiction audiobooks -- I find there's no satisfactory escape anymore -- I'm listening to dharma. This is helping at least a little bit and I guess in some way it's good to get this […]

Roads slick in #vermont this morning. Once, 35, 40 years ago or something I was traveling out of state. No internet or anything of course. There was snow, but I didn’t know how bad it was in Vermont. I called the state police and asked how the roads were, told her I live in Vermont but was […]

Wrote my congresswoman. Got bland boilerplate in response.

Fernando Scianna #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #FilmPhotography #streetphotography

Morning Glory Bud in Rain The 28th image in my hanging #DHMCshow. This is on Canson Etching paper and all the blur goes into the paper texture, pretty big, in a 22 x 28 frame. #johnlehetphoto #bloomscrolling #garden

Two Pine Sprigs in Ice #johnlehetphoto #silentsunday #vintagelens

Fiddlehead Fern and Daffodils The 27th photo in my currently haning #DHMCshow. I like to print on Canson Edition Etching paper when it works with tones, textures, color gamut. Sometimes it doesn't work and I need harder paper, and then sometimes I take the texture […] [Original post on mas.to]

Pine Sprig on Ice #johnlehetphoto #blackandwhite

Three Closed Siberian Iris Buds, Centaurea Behind The 26th photo in my hanging #DHMCshow. I think I've posted this here before? This was the poster image for a show of spring images I did at Long River Gallery in Vermont a year and a half ago. Made a good poster […] [Original post on mas.to]

Working with the new printer, new software (Qimage One) and some new knowledge, testing colors. According to Photoshop some colors here won’t print properly on any paper. So I tried different “rendering intents" etc to see if I could tell if those colors got clipped […] [Original post on mas.to]

Louis Faurer #OldMasters #filmphotography #Blackandwhite #streetphotography

Morning Glories and Fall Foliage In posting through the photos of the #DHMCshow, I skipped #19 in a little panel of small-ish prints, which to me has more impact than some of the bigger collections. (I forgot the position of this image, as I changed my plan while […] [Original post on mas.to]

A few things I know about the federal workforce in the USA: * Lots of federal workers are VA employees * Lots of VA employees are veterans * In general, veterans like the VA * The VA is already very underfunded and understaffed — because of budget cuts that have already been in place (which […]

Rose Hips in Snow I was living in a small funky house that was built in 1864, fixing it up a bit. The grounds had been quite run down and gone wild. These quirky old roses remained, surely not in commerce today. They grow close to the ground and have big hips that […] [Original post on mas.to]

I only know a few federal workers, so it’s a small window. It seems, as reported elsewhere, that Musk’s buyout email has only supercharged resilience, fortitude and stubbornness. People are staying, damn it, and will do their job.

This is the 24th photo in the #DHMCShow Pruned Apple Tree #johnlehetphoto #bokeh #bloomscrolling

Remembering the culture of Mastodon when I joined, on the very front end of the 2022 twitter jump. (I changed servers once very early). Content Warnings. For at least a couple of days we respected that, tried to, tip toed. That was the culture we all stampeded into. Now content warnings are […]

Louis Faurer #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #StreetPhotography #FilmPhotography Old photos sometimes do and often don't fill me with nostalgia. The world was also full of problems in every version of the past. Right now I'd be happy to go back to say 2015, or whatever […] [Original post on mas.to]

23rd photo L->R in my #DHMCShow. Rain on a Hosta Leaf This is the only black and white photo in a panel of color images. While the last panel featured spacious and spacey landscapes, these are all more intimate. So it fits. The last panel was a world full of air […] [Original post on mas.to]

Mario De Biasi #OldMasters #BlackandWhite #filmphotography

The 22nd photo in the currently hanging #dhmcshow This was a print I just couldn't get for some years, then some years back I got it, beautiful colors. I haven't tried it on the new printer yet. I didn't dare tweak the file or paper on my old printer. Just right. In a 16 x 20 frame

I’ve been ignoring rise in prices of excellent specialty #coffee. I overbought some time ago, and green coffee keeps for at least a few years. In the news, Brazil and Vietnam have had bad crops, but that coffee all goes to make up the bulk of crap blends. (I have had some excellent coffee from […]

The 21st photo in a little panel at the #DHMCShow. One of the images I want to reprint now that I have this new behemoth printer. The particulars of its extended color range, especially on textured papers, will really shine. The current one I think looks great in […] [Original post on mas.to]

Lucien Herve 1910 - 2007 #OldMasters #FilmPhotography #Abstract #blackandwhite

20th Photo in the currently hanging #DHMCShow. This small panel ended up quite different from the plan I had made. This works well as a small trio. I don't have a photo of this trio, and I can't remember the 19th photo, but the middle of the trio is this one, which […] [Original post on mas.to]

Two photos of the first washi print. One is held up to a window, much more dramatic.

Undaunted by disaster, I continue to try printing on the Washi Unryu paper. It's a bit of a quandry though. It seemed that what happened on the first run is the paper swelled. It seems there are two ways to approach this problem, given that I can control various aspects of how the ink goes down […]

Antanas Sutkus Taking apart Lenin's statue. Fuck tyrants. #OldMasters #FilmPhotography #blackandwhite

Barn by Pompanoosuc River, 1981 18th photo L->R in my currently hanging #DHMCShow. This is from ancient 4 x 5 film. It’s a large print in a 28 x 32 inch frame. It benefits from being large; there's a kind of floating on a cloud feeling to it, carries through at this […] [Original post on mas.to]