📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

I’ve always found the handmade summit signs that people make pretty silly. I’ve seen dozens of these over the years on Lukens. But this one, written on a literal piece of trash that would probably require a tetanus shot after getting

📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

There was something funny about this view to me, which I couldn’t put my finger on at the time. When I got home, I realized it was that it sort of looked like you’d follow these winding mountain paths out onto

📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

Trying to break out of my usual “here’s a cool landscape from a bike ride” thing a little more. So, here’s a weird little guy.

📷 Ricoh GR Monochrome

Tunnels seem like an impossibility. They really shouldn’t be there. The mountain shouldn’t allow them. They collapse, they’re rebuilt, they’re eventually abandoned entirely, leaving an eerie place to walk or ride a bike through, always with the full

Lens filters are among the few camera accessories that can be either genuinely useful or completely pointless, depending on the quality of the glass, coating, frame, and purpose.

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📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

They’ve been doing brush clearance up on Mt. Lukens the last few weeks. This makes the fire road super unpleasant to ride on (large sticks everywhere), but it does mean there are now an assortment of sight lines that never existed before. This

I forgot that I have one shot off the roll of film from the arboretum that I liked. I was trying to split the light between the top and bottom. Turned out a little silly, but whatever.

I’ve really started to fall in love with shooting black and white, I’ve been trying to shoot it more both to talk myself out of (or into?) Ricoh’s new fully monochrome point-and-shoot. I’m not sure whether doing this helps or hurts my