While driving to church each Sunday morning when I was growing up, there was a radio host on the local radio station who would play southern gospel music. It wasn’t just Oakridge Boys and the Gaithers… it was sometimes even local shape-note singing recorded at the Pentecostal tent meeting a few years prior or a home recording of the county sheriff’s family gospel quartet. (No, really…)
Well, as one would expect, this good ol’ boy on the radio would often personally read the commercials in a fairly strong local dialect that most people in the world would have only heard in over-exaggerated renditions of the Grapes of Wrath. And there was a local company that he would read about called “Buddy’s Fliers.” It took me quite a few times of hearing this “Buddy’s Fliers” commercial advertising “for all your flier needs” and wondering to myself “That’s a weird way to advertise a printing shop,” to realize that he was actually talking about a flower shop in the next town.
Some things you just can’t make up.
As for the photo of the day, this is as close as I can focus with the razor thin depth of field on the Nokton 50/1.5. This little lens and I have been around the block a few times together and it works just splendidly on the Leica M-E (and previously on the M8 and M4-P) even though it has a screw-mount converter.
Stay tuned…
-Noah D.
