It's springtime in Texas and I'm having a ball with my OM gear.
Weekend before last my wife and I went to McAllen for the Nature
Festival. There, in the wild, I shot a very obliging ferruginous
pygmy owl, a merlin, and incredibly brilliant vermilion flycatchers
with my Tamron 400/4; prickly pear and strawberry cactus blossoms with
my Zuicko 50/3.5; a pipeline swallowtail just emerged from the
chrysalis and drying its wings with a 200 f/5 on extension rings and a
T-32; and grand fields carpeted with wildflowers using my second hand
24/2.8 (Yes, Doris, 2.8s are a goodness). Last weekend, I shot my
6-year old nephew singing in the church children's program. As things
work out, at about the time my eyes are too old to focus my trusty
75-150 f/4 in the indoor gloom, I'm prosperous enough to afford an
85/2 and a 180/2.8 that I can focus (second-hand, of course). Then,
yesterday, my wife found a huge horned caterpillar in her famous
wildflower ditch. I shot that with the 50/3.5 and the 85/2 on clunky
non-automatic but official Zuicko extension rings. Good thing he was
slow.
Light, great subjects, Fujichrome, and OM gear: what more can you ask
for? Well, maybe a llama to tote all my gear....
Gary Edwards
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