It
has been over three months since my last entry. At that time I was photographing
in Paris and waiting for the weather to warm a bit before I ventured
farther East. But, this year, I was not destined to avoid winter’s
chilly breath, and I spent the month of March in a Germany overtaken
by record snowfalls…
The first beautiful day of Spring found me and thousands of other sun-worshipping
Germans on the streets of Munich. From that day on I watched Spring
grow with each warm respiration over the Tyrol as I meandered into Vienna
and on through Hungary’s pastoral hinterland…
As you now may have guessed, I have been reading quite a bit of 18th
century literature and 16th century theatre. My travels in Europe stemmed
from an aching gap in my knowledge of European history and art history
that I have now begun to remedy.
This entry marks the beginning of a new style for this blog that I hope
will correct the faults which led to my recent neglect. From now on
I will only write in here once a month. The photos will be larger, and
there will be no Comments. If you do wish to comment, feel free to write
me at my hotmail account.
Some other changes you may notice: My new digital camera is a Canon
5D, which I love much more than my poor old Nikon D100, though it really
is not fair to compare the two. Over time my Nikon had lost quite a
bit of sharpness and had begun to give a grey cast to its photographs.
The Canon has all the advantages of five more years of R &D, including
full frame shooting and that lovely little wheel that Canon puts on
the back of all its digital cameras…I’ve kept the Nikon
on the off chance that someday I’ll have a project that calls
for grayish, soft photographs…I mean, you never know (I’m
serious!).
