Gordy's Blog

One of the rituals we participated in, pre Covid, was the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. RoozenGaarde was one of the major growers and sellers of bulbs in the Skagit Valley. They had extensive grounds with plantings of their different bulbs. There was a modest fee for entering but it was well worth it.

An infrared photo at the Japanese Tea Gardens in the University of Washington arboretum.

I had an Olympus E-P2 that I was no longer using so I had it converted to infrared. Shooting in the infrared light spectrum is like taking pictures in another world.

My family lived in Japan from early 1957 to early 1961. For health reasons I had to return to the States for the duration of the 9th grade from Fall 1958 to Spring 1959. Before I left I went down to the Base Exchange at Tachikawa Air Force Base (My Dad was an Air Force pilot) and bought a 35mm Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super with the money I had earned at a summer job. I stayed with a cousin of my Mom's in Sacramento, California. Christmas 1958 I went down to Santa Ana, California, to visit my Grandparents. The...