Posies For My Sweet No. 8
The sporadic series continues
Love is like a Ramblin´ Rose/The more you feed it/The more it grows…
Returning readers of Clangoring are most likely familiar with my purchasing of flowers every payday. First time readers can get the skinny on it by searching previous Posies For My Sweets posts.
The camera for this one was a Yashica TL Electro. Introduced in ’72 as part of Yashica’s TL series, it was the more basic brother of the TL Electro-X, doing away with battery check, having a slower flash sync and no FP socket. Since I usually always shoot in manual mode (can’t let all the college education I paid for all go to waste all these decades later), the lack of battery check is no big deal to me because the battery solely operates the automatic exposure feature and not needed for the shutter or camera to work.
The film used for this was Fomapan 400, which is the same stock I used for the Obliques shots from last year.
Not Perpendicular Nor Parallel
Some things have been moving for Durham, NC’s band, The Obliques, since we wrote about them a couple of months ago. In April, this quartet of high school kids—comprised of Angus Gering (guitar/lyrics), Jackson Steffens (guitar/lyrics), Pablo Blackwell (drums), and Donivan Russell (bass)—played their first show outside of family garages and so on. That n…
Also, speaking of the Obliques, their debut single is out now Hozac Records. You should pick it up (and not just because it’s the first time my name has appeared on a record for some reason or another in over a decade. You should get it because it’s really pretty dang good.)
