Thanks to Ken Norton for playing gracious host on Saturday to a great
gathering of Olympus partisans. I will let Ken sum up the
proceedings.
As most of us were shooting film, the photos will be coming in the
next days and weeks. I was shooting Kodachrome, but I brought along
the E-3 for those occasions where it would be difficult to get
anything on an ASA 25 film, which was a good bit of the time because
of the wind.
My journey began with my friend Paul, who is new to OM and has been
something of a protege. He is also a motorcyclist, so we had a nice
ride together on back roads through some very pretty country and some
pretty little towns with picturesque names like "Deep River" and
"Montezuma." Not to mention "Brooklyn." Oh well. We took the long
way getting to Grinnell, managing to string out a 70 miles trip into
100, but stopped only once to look at a bit of prairie in northwest
Johnson county and to photograph some abandoned and decaying
buildings. Little did we know that we would be photographing a
decaying factory and some prairies when we got to Grinnell.
It was good to see Ken again. It was also great to meet Michael
Collins, known to listees, and Cory Brown, a pro from a town about 30
miles away who shoots Olympus digital. It was especially good to see
Gordon again, who was on the Isle Royale trip and made my experience
so memorable and enjoyable with his knowledge of botany. Gordan made
our visits to some restored and native prairies as enjoyable as one
might have expected. The last photo in the linked sequence includes
Gordon in the frame, as well as the species liatris aspera, one of a
couple species whose presence in a prairie indicates that it is
healthy, according to Gordon.
http://jfwilcox.jalbum.net/Zuikfest/index.html
More and better photos are to come I'm sure!
Joel W.
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