Campaign 2024

 Trump: Under Crooked Joe Biden, the world is in flames, our border is overrun, inflation is raging, Europe is in total chaos, the Middle East is exploding, Iran is emboldened, China is on the march, and the worst, most incompetent, most corrupt president in history is going to drag us into World War III,

This is the sort of discourse we are going to have to endure for the next several months. For better or worse, it will have this effect: there will be no reason to enter into an argument with any Trump supporter, as their persistent existence has proven that they are too stupid and too childish and of too narrow an intellect to engage in any kind of meaningful discussion. 

I generally try to avoid any kind of political statement on my blog(s) but I have to go on record, in case anyone was wondering, that I'm not buying this garbage.  In typical irony for the Trump era, making America great again means getting past Trump and getting things back to what we once regarded, perhaps loosely, as normal, or at least not coarse, stupid, ignorant, self-serving, destructive and insulting. 

Sunset

 So the advantage of digital photography over film is the immediate satisfaction of seeing your picture right away. This is yesterday's sunset. I must have taken a dozen pictures, but only at the last did I think to turn off the lights inside the apartment so I wouldn't see their reflections in the window glass. Duh. 

(And even then you can see a slight reflection of a window with the blinds turned open, in the upper right corner.) 

A Few Pictures

 I've been on this film kick for a little while, because my son got into it and I jumped on board--I used to shoot film all the when that's all there was. I switched to digital cameras when they got more or less affordable, some time in the 2Ks, and I have a couple of nice digital cameras at the moment. 

I know this isn't a photography blog. Suffice it to say that pictures made from a film camera have a different quality than those made by a digital camera. You might say, there's less quality, but I believe there's something psychological going on that renders a certain charm to film photography. They say it's the grain, or the colors. To some, there's probably not enough difference to fuss over. It's certainly different, as the photographer, to take pictures knowing that you won't see how they come out for a few days to a couple of weeks. The act of taking pictures then takes on a certain mystery and requires some deliberation--things that just don't happen with a digital camera. Not in my experience. 

Anyway, below are some pictures from a roll I shot a couple weeks ago. They were all taken in Kansas City, in and around downtown, where I live.