Below are the most recent 3 friends' journal entries.

Friday, December 18th, 2009
leighgion	2:29p	Avoiding Camera Loss You don't have too even own a camera to appreciate Andrew McDonald's Pictorial Guide to Avoiding Camera Loss. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Silent Running - Peter Schickele -- Various Artists - Silva Screen Records, The Science Fi (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
leighgion	9:26p	Blossoms of Twilight Blossoms of Twilight Originally uploaded by Leighgion (Four Stomach Studios) The great cause of making flowers sinister continues. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
leighgion	8:15p	Still Hangin' with the Elders Ever since I was a little kid, it was the norm for me to be around people much older. Oddly, I think I've come to notice the gap more as I get older. Even though I'm technically just a younger version of adult than folk who are 20, 30 or 40 years my senior, I'm more keenly aware now of the gap than when I was 5 or 10 and hanging around with people similarly elder. This has been especially pronounced at the local camera club. The membership is dominantly senior, and photographic interest is skewed towards subjects like pastoral landscapes, found objects and other generally stationary things. Objectively, I can sympathize since most of the members just aren't up to crawling under park benches to get interesting angles, chasing after wildlife or holding a camera up to the eye for the interminable lengths of time that dedicated street or candid photography can ask of you. I sympathize, but it still forms a gulf between them and myself, since of late I find I'm driving more and more towards chasing people (and animals) with a camera and hoping they do interesting things as well as just trying to get the camera where it normally never would go. I'm just not trying to do the same kind of photography as the bulk of the club. Yes, this includes crawling under park benches, as well as office floors and sitting on concrete in twenty degree temperatures. All this is what helped make this morning a pleasant surprise. Tuesdays mornings are when a little subset of the local camera club do a café get together. It took me some time before I finally made it to one and this morning was only my second round in. One of the gentleman present just celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, another ribbed him for being younger and the other two are at least the same age. Then there was little me, not even packing forty years yet. It was the most amicable and lively discussion I've had yet at a gathering of club members. Maybe things haven't changed so much after all. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Reason To Believe -- Ugress, Resound (Comment on this)