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Come Wander Along with Me...

I wander...it is simply what I do.  Since I was a young girl, my parent's tried everything to keep me close to home, going to such  measures as to buy me goats.  Though I loved my goats, my heart still  wandered.  

Growing up in rural New Jersey, I was surrounded by dense woods and long stretches of farm land to fuel my imagination.   I felt at home in the arms of the forest and spent many days laying upon the fragrant mossy soil staring up through the filter of leaves... watching the light dance.  It is these experiences that I work to remember.

In adulthood, I discovered the joy of capturing those precious moments, through my camera's lens.  Though the many years in between my youth and the present, I have enjoyed many wonderful adventures and am currently wandering in another people's land.  For the past 10 years I have had the pleasure of living in Europe and learning to look at life in a very different way.   

Through my images and my wanderings, I hope you will enjoy seeing the world around you... in a new way.

So...I invite you to "Come Wander Along with Me..."

Come Sit for a While…

Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:13pm Posted in Equipment, Film, Living in Europe

Kerstin-sits-for-portrait1The other evening, while we had willing victims…(some call them guests), we tested out our newly converted antique lens on our 4×5 Toyo Field camera.  This lens, my husband hunted down on various sites like the Large Format Photography Forum and Ebay, it is approximately 110 years old…well, why listen to me talk about it…let me have him tell you more.

“This antique brass lens was made in France about 90-110 years ago and is a Hermagis 250mm/f4. It is a Petzval design and makes for an incredible portrait lens. The aperture is fixed at roughly f4 and has no waterhouse stops or an internal aperture. The shots were taken at 4-5 seconds in length, taking into account the bellows extension and the film reciprocity for the Efke PL25 M film.”   See, I knew I should let him to the Technical Talk.

Well, not much to report accept it was great fun and we hope the images speak for themselves.

Next adventure, the antique camera show in the Netherlands….keep your eye fix to this page to hear more!

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November 22, 2009 - 20:49 Phil Vaughn - Laura and Erick, This is intriguing stuff, and how different it is from so much of today's photography. It must have been something to resurrect this old lens--and then be able to use it, too! (I have to ask myself if I would be that patient and exacting.) Very enjoyable to see this post. Thanks for sharing and--best wishes!

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