On 06/15/2011 11:05 AM, Christine Aguila wrote:
Sorry to hear about your mom and dad, Walt. Christine
Thank you, Christine. There are bad days and not-so-bad days.
Yesterday was pretty good. Today -- not as bad as some others. :-)
-- Walt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Gilbert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 11:33 AM
Subject: PESO: Grab a Drop
Hi all,
Stepping briefly back out of obscurity to share a photo I took this
morning. Sorry I haven't been around to participate. Ever since I
got home from my visit to California with Larry and John, my mother's
health has taken a turn for the worse. She's currently in hospice
care, and it's fallen to me to look after her. She's in fairly grave
condition - to the point where she's taking morphine in both pill and
liquid form, and I have to stay on top of that. And, as if that
weren't enough, my father has suddenly taken ill with heart problems
-- both of them spent about ten days in the hospital at the same time
recently. So, essentially, my photography is limited to what I can
find in my yard.
A couple of weeks ago, I order a reversing ring and have been
tinkering around with my K 50/1.4. So far, this is the best shot
I've managed to get with it. Basically, it's shot with my K-x using
the pop-up flash and a Fuji film canister with some wax paper lining
the inside as a diffuser, at 400 ISO for 1/180 of second. (It's a
grasshopper-like insect, in case anyone is squeamish about those).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/5832616817/
(Lighbox) http://is.gd/Q6u4ys
I haven't done a great deal of editing to it -- bumped up the
highlights using curves in The GIMP and resized to make a faster
upload. I just wanted to show it off because I was really happy with
the way it turned out. I wish I could participate in the forum, or
even seriously pursue photography at all right now, but it's just
tough to get serious with it in my current situation. With any luck,
though, hospice will help to get my mother a little more stabilized
and I'll be able to get out and trudge around with the camera a bit
more.
Anyway -- that's the news from Kentucky. I write and take photos
when I can, and figured I ought to at least touch base with everyone
to let you all know I'm still alive and check in on the list from
time to time, whenever the opportunity presents itself.
-- Walt
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