365 Through-the-Viewfinder (TtV)

A little over a year ago I was hooked by the challenge of capturing (digital) photographic images through the viewfinder of vintage TLR cameras manufactured in the 40s & 50s. Soon after, I took the plunge and committed to take one TtV image for each day of the year — beginning January 1, 2009.

Mission accomplished! :)  ~~ I believe I learned quite a bit about photography in the course of the project, and I definitely know that I enjoyed the experience. After a short breather to catch my creative breath… I’m intending to embark upon another 365 project, beginning March 1st, 2010. :D

The collection of ttv365 2009 images can be found in my flickr stream here.

A group of other swell folk who are also ttv365ers can be found here.

And the super-cool, primary Through-the-Viewfinder group can be found here. (Everything you always wanted to know about TtV, and were afraid to ask.)

I’ve also put together an interactive photo-mosaic, here , comprised of many of my photographs from 2009. Enjoy!

Thonk! Verse

“Hi!”, says I. My name’s Steve.
So glad we’ve met on Tomorrow’s Eve!
When seeds from this day bloom full with Spring,
What bounties will tomorrow bring?!

Parallel Universe

This morning I was driving along a route I drive nearly every day. There was some sort of fender-bender ahead that gummed up the traffic flow, so I turned to the right one block earlier than I normally would have, and drove on a different road.

Everything was new to me. But it was old. It was an old industrial area lined with small, nondescript, weather-beaten machine shops that had forever been repairing or manufacturing this or that. Some of the buildings looked as if they might have been abandoned now. The large trees along this road had been trimmed through the years to accommodate a powerline running through the middle of the hollowed-out afros of their branches. They formed a long brambly row of deciduous ‘Y’s.

On this road there were none of the fast-food restaurants or video stores or illuminated gas stations I normally pass.

This whole other parallel world occupies the same time and space as I do, but one block to the right.
—SD