THIRD set of Charleston Pictures, including Lomos

Not a Lomo, but weird dolls in a window. I have no idea what they are or why they were there. It wasn’t a shop – I think it’s maybe a school of some sort. Right on Bay Street.

Whole Bunch O’ Windows. Notice how decorative they all are. According to something I overheard a carriage driver telling his tour people (about an entirely different house), it was considered to be in poor taste to have all your windows this fancy. Only the front door was supposed to have such decorative trim. He likened it to a lady wearing all her jewelry at one time.

Lomos!!

This was the MOST spectacular, huge, bright, amazingly orange moon. Of course, it didn’t come out huge and spectacular at all, but I did love how you can still see the reflection of the moon in the water. One more reason to want a digital camera – I think you probably can do a decent Huge Orange Moon shot with one. Maybe. Can you??

Same moon, turned into bizarre swirly lights, along with the ship lights out at sea. But the reflection is still there! It was really neat. A fun Lomo Thing.

And the cool old theatre on King Street. Which isn’t a theatre any more – I think they do receptions and things there. But they still have the cool marquee and all the lights.

Okay, that’s it – this weekend was the Big Oz Festival, so I may actually have some pictures of that up soon. Although it was INSANELY crowded, and we ended up just going through the park once. Very sad – I don’t know how on earth people know about the Oz Festival, I never hear ANYTHING about it, yet every year there are more people. This year it went beyond being wonderful that so many people know about it and come and support it, to being a huge crowded pain. They seriously need to think about opening up the park on weekends. They’d make a fortune, and we could go whenever we wanted to!

i love my digital. my only regret was i did not get one sooner.

FallingDog

October 3, 2005

Beautiful lomo shots!!! I love that tarty-fancy windowed house, even if it IS in poor taste!

MargUK

October 4, 2005

These are brill & at last – an advantage to being behind on OD – I didn’t have to wait for each entry – I could see all of them at once! I love the gravestones – really cool. I think there are a lot of people who like wandering round cemeteries & find gravestone interesting but it’s like one of those things you don’t mention unless someone else does first – Closet Cemetery Investigators!

I love the light effect the Lomo produces. I’m sure our digital camera can capture big moons (sounds faintly disgusting that) – in fact I’m sure it can do quite wonderful things if we would only SIT DOWN & READ THE FLIPPING MANUAL instead of discovering things by accident every 6 months!

RYN: will pass your request onto Willow – he’s very sociable so tell Stella & Colfax not to be put off – he can be a bit blustery – sticks his tail in people’s faces all the time & batters you with his face but he’s really just saying “HELLO!” or “FEED ME!” – and always in capital letters!

Redcat

i am wondering why it didn’t pick up the actual moon being orange, but it did in the water? almost like two different pictures. did you say the Lomos is a double click aperture? whatever, it is a great effect!

jasspirit

I much prefer my digital. The only time I use 35mm is to take close up/distance shots, because it has a 70-300 zoom lens.

Spinster

I love the Oz pictures.

XistDense

October 5, 2005

Ohhhh, very cool pictures. Now I’m going to have to go backwards and see the rest. ryn: Thank you for your kind words! (I am giggling over ‘whirly-brain background illness.’ I think that prolly needs to be reported to BABES and to the CDC!)

Those were some different looking dolls… I really liked those windows though….they didn’t seem too dressy to me!! thanks for sharing the pics.

Ken Fitlike

October 7, 2005

…and part 3 of the set keeps the variety coming and the standard up. You’ve done Charleston pround, I would say.

melondrop

the buildings are so old worldish looking. Like a different era. I just read an article about new orleans and the photos of charleston remind me of the article I just read.