This past week /
i reflected on past times /
as i repaired a 100 year old fountain pen /
with flexible 14 k gold tines /
and a sac gone brittle into dust /
(Settles Supremacy Pen, photographed with iPhone 6s, iPro S2 Century Macro)
Then, on this overcast, chilly, fall morning /
I pickup a lens made in 1970 (Leica made 1,000 of them that year) /
and attach it to a Visoflex III, made sometime between 1961 and 1984 /
and attach all that to a full frame digital Leica /
that only makes black and white image files /
and in doing all of that /
i actually seem to ‘connect’ /
with a younger version of myself /
(click photograph for larger view)
(Last flower and Shaggy Ink Caps, photographed with Leica M Monochrom, 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex III)
(Leica Monochrom, Visoflex III and 65 mm Elmar, with ink on a page, photographed with iPhone 6s)