Scenes Seen & 1 of 3 Community Reunion Posts: Digital Fuji La.

There is something that is becoming a trend. All Fujifilm.

Digital…

FUJIFILM X100VI: Unobtanium Obtained. Part 1 – The Arrival.

Week 1 WIth The GFX System: What I Have Learned So Far.

…and film.

This Old Camera: Fujifilm GA645. May Answer My “One Camera” Question.

The occasion. A Warrenton community reunion. I call it community because it involved multiple families from the community my Mom calls home. A place where folks raised and grew most of their needs, helped each other, and only dealt with others outside of the community when hard goods were needed from town. Now, consider the 50s and 60s, when my mother grew up, and it should not be hard to understand how crucial this was. When she describes life there, it sounds like heaven to me now. On the ride home, Mom was sharing with my wife and son how they churned their own butter, had their own fruit orchard, made their own ice cream, and on and on. Different families banded together to help and support one another, as well as celebrate together. In my youthful ignorance, I did not fully appreciate how awesome this was. I loved visiting. Because family. But now, really listening to what she is saying instead of just hearing?… Cast against these current times? In all honesty, I wish I still lived in such a community. What she describes could not be more different than the diversity lacking, bitter winter cold, as well as the bitter emotional cold I experienced growing up in upstate NY. What she describes and what I experienced could not be more different. Certainly, my parents did a commendable job of showing me love and support. But the community? No. Most would expect, if not outright cheer for, my failure or demise. To have a whole community pulling for you explains a lot. I have commented, only half jokingly, that I believe I have a family member who graduated from near every school in NC. NCA&T, NC Central, Fayetteville State, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State, UNC Greensboro, UNC Charlotte, and on and on. I do believe there is a connection between that community and the heights those who have descended from it have achieved. A place that not only believes in you and cheers for you but also supports you. Powerful.

Cast that against the constant drumbeat of the outside world, always trying to convince you that you are less than solely based on manufactured metrics, archaic assumptions, and suffocating stereotypes born purely out of the fevered minds of the fascist minded…. Oof. Where was I?

Oh. Right. Pictures. Fuji something…

The setting.

Kim’s Winery, just down the road from our 100-plus-acre family homestead. A lovely little place that plays host to community events.

The digital Fujifilm photos. First up, the camera that has become my digital camera do everything well wingman. The X100VI.

On the left above is my Uncle Donnell. On the right is my cousin Bennie Macklin, who is a fellow photographer. As we compared our kits and talked with another cousin, I captured these images.

The GFX100S with GF 85mm f/1.7.