It's been a very busy week with work and getting ready for a busy weekend. Thursday I had to go up to Anacortes to see an insurance adjustor about a dent in a door. Friday morning I went down to an open house for my grandson Mike's first grade class. An end of the year thing. He showed off what he had been doing and read a poem.

Then it was up to Oak Harbor Friday afternoon to take Zoe to a hair appointment and run errands. I got some shots in around the neighborhood while I was waiting. They will show up soon. Then it was back down south to the Greenbank Farm. We were to meet Don. Part of the busy week was getting the house cleaned up since Don was going to be a house guest Friday night. Greenbank Farm was hosting a car show on Saturday and Don was going to be there with his booth selling his vintage drag racing photos. He wanted to set up Friday evening. We were late getting to the farm, 7pm, but we still beat Don by 2 minutes. He got held up in the Friday night ferry line. I helped Don unload his truck (pictures by Zoe.)

Then we headed home. Don had lent me his Nikon F3 HP with a 35mm/f2 lens and a 105mm/f2.5 lens three weeks ago. When we got home Don unpacked some other treasures to go along with the F3. First was a 55mm/f3.5 Micro-Nikkor. It will focus down to 9 1/2". He also brought an extension ring for it so that it will focus even closer. I'm looking forward to using this lens. It's an older non-AI lens so I will have to use stop down metering or, perish the thought, a hand held meter. The second treasure was a surprise. It was an Nikkor 85mm/f2. A fast 85mm lens, but that wasn't the half of it. He had a Harrison & Harrison diffusion filter on it used for portraits. I had never heard of these. Harrison & Harrison makes filters for the movie industry. Apparently these diffusion filters work a little bit different that most. It doesn't turn everything soft, it combines a sharp image with a diffused image. Not well known and very expensive. A set of three is almost $300. Don has a set of 5. They go from lightlly diffused to heavily diffused. Diffusion also varies by f stop. I've been wanting to do some soft focus portraits and these will be perfect. They are Series VIII filters and I found an adapter for the 90mm lens on my medium format Salut-S for $10. The adaptor on the Nikkor 85 also fits on my digital Pentax DSLR lens. Diffusion testing will ensue. Then he unloaded the Nikkor 200mm/f4 and a Tamron 500mm/f8 mirror lens. Where to begin? Zoe was tired by this time so Don and I went down to China City for Chinese food. Don was up early Saturday morning to set up his booth.

I spent some time Saturday morning at the car show talking to Don and taking pictures. (The pictures will show up after the Oak Harbor pictures.) My son Robby and daughter Katie (Mike's mom) were coming over for a early Father's Day barbecue Saturday afternoon but Robby had to back out because of a pulled chest muscle that was bothering him. Katie and Mike showed up and Zoe and I joined them for dinner at Mike's Place. Zoe asked Katie and me to pretend we loved one another and took this series.

A good time was had by all. Regular programming will resume shortly.