Photo Dump... some random images. 📸

Everybody needs a hobby. Photography is mine. I like experimenting with different ways to look at things. Black & white is still my favorite.

This is Essay #147

NOTE: Open in the App… this will be too long for your email - there are a lot of photos.

I’m thrilled to say there are now over 3500 members of the Susan Speaks community. 😱 I’ve met some of you personally and feel like I know most of you. This is much more fun than my real job writing advertising copy! THANK YOU for coming along for the ride.

From the moment I held my dad’s Argus C3 in my hands, I was hooked. I’ll never forget loading that film for the first time under his stern eye. God, he was a horrible parent. But he did instill my love of taking pictures. I had the Argus refurbished to like-new condition, no easy task as it was taken completely apart, cleaned, with a new leather cover. And it works!

My dad’s Argus C3, circa 1939. Made in Ann Arbor, MI, over 2 million sold.

Today, it’s a brand new ballgame. I have several “nice” cameras that I use, (Canons) but the one in my pocket almost never fails me. Editing allows for fine tuning and more creative expression.

I’ve been sitting on these images, editing when I need to focus on something else besides American concentration camps and kids dying in floods. Like so many of you, I am really struggling these days with the depravity of the population I live within. It helps to bury my brain into editing shots I’ve taken to see what might be worth sharing. I offer some here.

I planted these several years ago and they’re really prolific now. Purple cone flowers attract lots of bees and butterflies.

I found Albert in a tiny, unnamed cemetery in Maine. I hope someone will straighten his stone. He was only nineteen.

In a gas station in Rowley, Massachusetts. What a find!

Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

One of my favorite shots, in Boston near the Old North Church. He was talking to someone but I wasn’t able to get his friend fully in frame. I like this better, anyway… and the light was awesome!

Nothing unique about this, but still a beautiful scene on a 100+ degree day in Maine.

In Trenton, New Jersey. Springtime in Riverview Cemetery.

St. Ann by-the-sea in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Inside St. Ann.

On my last visit to Florida… 12 years ago. Don’t plan on going back.

Weckerly’s in Philadelphia. YUM!

Found in a church in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife Spain.

Religious art always fascinates me…and this three dimensional relief in a church in Tenerife was just stunning. The facial expressions!

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Find your hobbies and indulge in them! Stay mentally and physically healthy during this scary time… we’ll get through it together.

I love my digital family… thanks for being here!

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