Official senior citizenship

Happy May! It’s my birthday month, when I attain official senior citizenship (by some measures, anyway). My Medicare kicks in, I’ll garner Honored Rider status with Lane Transit District (free bus rides!), and will acquire a new birthday gadget. The latter has been ordered: it’s a 9mm f/1.7 ultra-wide-angle lens for my micro four thirds format cameras. I think it will be a fun lens, with a wider angle-of-view than any lens I’ve ever used before, in any format or system.

Speaking of photography, my friend Blake and I took a photowalk in and around downtown Springfield yesterday afternoon. Selections from my shots will follow this post’s prose. I went for a little extra creativity in the Lightroom processing phase with some of the images.

Today is looking to be very warm and sunny, and—it being May Day—there are several public events scheduled here and there (downtown, at the university, etc.), including protests and strikes. I’m planning to try to get into the thick of it with a camera or two and see what I can snap. I had tons of fun a couple weeks ago photographing downtown at Saturday Market—which featured protesters, marketeers, and God-Squaders all packed into a small area. So I’m betting today will be jolly good as well.

I’ve found an excellent new (to me) YouTube channel to binge, featuring interviews with film photographers as well as philosophical rants and idea pieces by the channel owner, Willem Verbeeck.

And now, a few of yesterday’s Springfield photowalk pictures…. 

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