That Dark Winter

Ice clings to a dormant morning glory vine in our front yard this morning. I made this image with the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 lens I bought in the summer of 1978.
Ice clings to a dormant morning glory vine in our front yard this morning. I made this image with the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 lens I bought in the summer of 1978.

Today’s bleak winter weather is bringing back a dark winter for me, 1979.

I was a tenth grader, writing in my embryonic journal, making embryonic images.

The two images I posted with this entry are very much like the images I made back then, in part because I dug out the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 lens that came with the Fujica ST-605n I bought in the summer of 1978 with some of my allowance and a $100 gift from my paternal grandmother.

I sold the Fujica decades ago, but a couple of years ago I found an identical one on eBay and got it. The lens is mostly plastic, with a five-bladed aperture, but it is remarkable sharp, and gives a look, today mounted on my Fujifilm X-T10 mirrorless camera, identical to the film images I made all those decades ago.

Ice on our fence reminds me of that dark winter of 1979. I photographed it with the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 that I used to photograph that winter all those years ago.
Ice on our fence reminds me of that dark winter of 1979. I photographed it with the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 that I used to photograph that winter all those years ago.