south west crouse

between the showers and with a lessening of the wind. i decided to take the deardorff across the road to south west crouse. i would park near the grave site and the trail head walk around the cove to the other end of the community and make snaps on the way back.

the area seemed to have potential for not only the formal with the rooms and stores on the cove side of the road, mixed with hints of habitation - gloves, cords, weber grill.

made it to the cul-de-sac and had a couple of snaps made, wood pile that mirrored the house behind it, the weber grill, and was heading down a few steps to make a snap of those same steps mixed in with the possessions left on them.

pick up the camera on the tripod to let the legs fall to so that i can lock them level. with the second leg i notice that it leg has fallen off completely - well not completely it was being held on by the centre brace. it seems that manfrotto uses some sort of white metal for its locks.

what followed resembled a 21st century remake of a chaplin or keaton film as i struggled to make sure that the camera would make it to the ground gently.

managed to get the outfit back to the road where i set it up by the house of buddy who was watching as he was heading back from his store and picking up some firewood.

asked him if i could leave the camera in front of his house while i went back to the machine to safely retrieve it.

of course camera-less i saw all sorts of photographic possibilities.

picked up the camera brought out the hobo to finish the outing after chatting with buddy - but not being able to make his snap - didn’t want to seem a stalker. this made an image that i wanted to make even harder as he had hung up his gloves on his line that broke up the rigid formal qualities quite nicely. kept walking back and forth in front of the house hoping that he would go inside so that i could make it. a tripod brings out all sorts of the curious. i am always waving to people in windows as i pass.

i even went back later that day with ubirajara to make the snap and as the shutter went off buddy came out the door.

finishing my allotment of sheet film for the day, and more or less trying to figure out what i was going to do for the rest of the residency. tried gluing the leg back on with the resin that i had bought to affix my front number plate when it came loose when foley pulled me out of a ditch by the post office - mirroring a similar mishap in 2005 - to no avail.

in the end when my brain started to function again i realised that i could use the tripod but in a height challenged mode. i could continue on my way, unknowingly using the pinholed bellows freely.