may 11 > 02

sometimes beer and cameras and roundtable discussions lead one to the pursuance of tasty delectibles - hunting for the perfect uncooked souvlaki at the St Lawrence Market.

  

 

in attendance

- brendan (late show is better than no show)
- jeff (zooming from super wide to wide)
- dave b (north of steeles the beer is cheap and the cows are tipped)
- frank (man with a mat)
- yours truly (more questions than answers)
         
sometimes dave naps

There are moments in everyone's day when they are caught napping; in this case, it's the vivitar 283's fault ;-)

Camera: K1000
Lens: 19mm Vivitar Series 1
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/60 (flash sync)

  
his camera; my beer

Frank's YashicaMat LM with a pint well on it's way to being finished of Kawartha Lakes Raspberry Wheat beer.

Camera: K1000
Lens: 50mm SMC-M
Aperture: 1.4 (wide open baby!!)
Shutter: 1/60

  
the 'mat

Frank's YashicaMat goes "solo" (after I grabbed my beer...)

Camera: K1000
Lens: 50mm SMC-M
Aperture: 1.4
Shutter: 1/60

         
living in a wedge

There's that dang building again. One of the "oddities"/"niceties" of Toronto. Wedged right in the middle of Front St. at Javis St. it kind of suits the neighbourhood...

Camera: K1000
Lens: 50mm SMC-M
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/500

 
frankly. . .

A lot can be said about a man with two cameras who looks like a private detective . . . most of it though is best left unsaid.

Camera: K1000
Lens: 135mm SMC-M
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/250

 
walk like a PDMLer

Brendan is the only one in this photo not fiddling with his equipment ( I'm talkin' bout the cameras here folks.. the cameras !!).

Camera: K1000
Lens: 19mm Vivitar Series 1
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/1000

         
that's when the tree joined

Nothing's weirder when you're walking down the street and out of nowhere a tree decides to join you in your walk (I'm not sure what Frank's doing in the left hand side of this photo... but... let's give him some privacy..) ;-)

Camera: K1000
Lens: 90mm Sigma Macro f2.8
Aperture: 8
Shutter: 1/1000

 
jeff takes aim

It's Jeff's LX that got me thinking that maybe another K-mount body might not be such a bad idea after all....

Camera: K1000
Lens: 90mm Sigma Macro f2.8
Aperture: ?
Shutter: ?

 
jeff fires

The zoom also made it difficult for me not to re-consider my lack there of. Basically my prime lenses have made me happy but the convenience of a zoom in the right situation is something I should consider.

Camera: K1000
Lens: 135mm SMC-M
Aperture: ?
Shutter: ?

         
dangling meat

Nothing says "come and get it !" like long tubular meats dangling from a variety of hooks. Gets a guy feeling all squirmish . . . let's keep moving on folks. . .

Camera: K1000
Lens: 50mm SMC-M
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: ? (1/60 ?)

 
reminds me of an elvis movie

And just like that, Elvis broke out his guitar and he started singing and twitching around the bonfire while we had to sit there and shuck clams all day. . . he got all the credit and all the girls. . . I got a pair of hands that smelt like, well, clams.

Camera: K1000
Lens: 50mm SMC-M
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/60

 
next PDML adventure ?

There's talk of something going on in the north/east area of the city - after all, the last two have accomodated the downtown and close to downtown folk.

Keep in touch and you can come on out and talk, drink, eat, take photos, drool at other folks equipment and in general have a nice leisurely afternoon with people that aren't nearly as pretentious as some of those "other" camera mailing lists :-)

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