Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, everyone! Steve, I'm honored. Tina: It's not that you have a bigger mess than I do, it's that you have a wider lens. :-) Here are three more overlapping 35mm-equivalent shots that show the situation a bit more clearly. These start where yesterday's picture left off, each picture rotating to the right (I don't have panorama software yet): Here's original picture I posted yesterday: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1009736.jpg.html And continuing the "panorama" with the E-M5 and 35mm equivalent (Panny kit zoom): http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/P1150194.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/P1150195.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/P1150196.jpg.html This is after a couple of week's work, it was worse when I started! Those relatively inexpensive stackable plastic bins and drawer units you see in the last picture are a godsend. And simultaneously, we are cleaning out our attic of my late mother's "tchotchkes" (pronounced CHOCH-kes, meaning trinkets, brick-a-brac, souvenirs and the like). Plus antiques, some of which are still antiques and some of which are now considered junk. All this stuff was never unpacked after my folks moved from their house in Massachusetts to smaller senior housing here. There were 30 (yes, thirty) boxes of the stuff. We're down to the last 3 boxes. This shot was taken about halfway through the repacking of the last batch of stuff that will go to an auction house. There were at least 6 batches prior to this. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1009739.jpg.html It's exhausting, not only from the physical work, but because each object evokes a memory that must be dealt with. Then we have to decide: Discard, sell, give away, keep? We WILL get our space back eventually. --Peter Tina wrote: > You think you have a mess? That's not a mess! This is a mess: > > http://www.pbase.com/image/154140671 > > I really, really need to take a day or two and straighten up! > > Tina > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at > gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > > > > > I am cleaning up and reorganizing my Man-Cave, otherwise known as my > > den. After 14 years of piling stuff up, it was time. Note that this is a > > gen-you-wine Leica photograph, taken with a bona fide Leica M8 body and an > > authentic Leica 35/1.4 Aspffffffftheric lens. > > > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/11960567184/ > > > > > > Marvel at the spectacle of chaos and entropy glacially coalescing into > > order. Note the cleverly balanced compositional elements of the scalene > > triangle formed by the red dictionary on my computer table, the orange > > "Magnum Degrees" book on the left and the four yellow Kodachrome boxes on > > the right (the latter placed on my desk several years ago in prescient > > anticipation of this moment). Note also the profusion of ancient switch > > boxes, modems, serial cables and SCSI stuff, the sad digital detritus of > > passing time, scattered like mammoth bones in a Neanderthal cave dwelling, > > evoking the swift obsolescence of the Information Age. We won't even > > mention the piles of paper. > > > > > > When I emerge from this epic struggle, dusty but victorious, I shall see > > table surfaces again! Some things shall go to the recycle bin, others to > > the trash, still others to the waiting maws of stackable plastic storage > > bins and drawers, part of the eternal cosmic cycle of of birth, death, > > decay and rebirth. > > > > > > Yeah. That's it. > > > > > > > > a true genius of composition....in all things esp writing and photography. > > > > > > s > > > > > > > > > > --Peter > > > (Hey, I posted a photo, didn't I?) > > >