Along beautiful Centre Street, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island – Florida
One of my favorite buildings along Centre Street. Such details and colors.
Taken with my Fujifilm X-A10 with Canon FD 24mm f2.8 lens
Velvia Vivid mode
Hand held at around 1/15
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Chris
Rose in a window.
Centre Street, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island – Florida
Fujifilm X-A10 with Canon FD 24mm f2.8 lens
Velvia Vivid
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Chris
Always a few flags flying along Centre Street, Fernandina Beach – Amelia Island
The fudge shop always a big draw – just getting the crowd on a Saturday night.
Ice cream everywhere!
There’s that Saturday night crowd at Fantastic Fudge.
The famous Palace Saloon… you know they’ll be busy this weekend!
My camera… Fujifilm X-A10 with Canon FD 24mm f2.8 lens. Film simulation mode was Velvia Vivid. I love the gentle colors and the not “eye etching” sharpness that the Canon lens provides. ISO was generally 800-1200 and most apertures were f5.6 to f8 with super slow shutter speeds that were hand held.
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More exactly, how to decode the serial numbers on the Yashica YE 35mm rangefinder camera.
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We touched on this briefly the other day, but the Yashica YE serial number might have a date code embedded in it. We say might have because we are working off only a 25 camera database – possibly not enough to make a definitive call.
In the example above, the serial number (No. 392745) appears to decode to: 3 = March, 9 = 1959 and 2745 = 2,745th made.
The earliest camera in our database is: (No. 128049) which would be 12 = December, 8 = 1958 and 049 = the 49th made.
The latest in the database is: (No. 699821) which is 6 = June, 9 = 1959 and 9821 = 9,821st made.
Reports on some sites on the Internet claim that only 4,000 cameras were made. The serial numbers, if consecutive and continuous would seem to contradict that. For the moment, let’s keep an open mind about the serial number decoding. More info is needed to fill in the December 1958 and post June 1959 production numbers from Yashica.
If you have some additional info or serial numbers to share, please feel free to share that with us.
Thanks!
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Our “vintage” town was conceived in the mid 1850s with many of the buildings from the 1870s onward still standing (commercial and private). Our town was skipped over by progress so we’re fortunate to have retained some of our Southern charm into the 21st century.
Here’s a neat old building that’s the last one on the south side of Centre Street – closest to the railway station and still active tracks.
If you look closely at the far right side you’ll see a passing freight train.
I’ve photographed this store in it’s many versions over the years… now it’s a jewelry store that been nicely reimagined. I love the faint outlines of previous advertisements on its side.
Note the rather large cedar trees on the property. The Lesesne House. Built just prior to the start of the Civil War.
Further down Centre Street and right next to the c1911 post office is this lovely home. One of the few remaining private homes (not B&B) still left in the downtown center.
The cedar tree that is in front of this house.
The Lesesne House (c1860) as seen from the historic post office parking lot.
Side view of the Lesesne House along Centre Street (above). c1911 post office below.
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Success! After literally years of searching and countless missed bids, we’ve acquired a Yashica Pentamatic II. One of Yashica’s lowest production cameras – ever. Estimated at less than 5 thousand – and since it failed in the marketplace and wasn’t distributed outside of Japan, it wasn’t considered a collector’s camera and many were simply dumped whenever they broke. It’s hard to estimate how many exist today, but a wild guess would be around 1 to 2 thousand (and that may be high). Production started in August 1960 and for the most part ended in very early 1961 (late January) when the Pentamatic S came out worldwide.
Yashica Pentamatic II – the hardest Pokemon of all to catch!
Our camera has the original short lived Auto Yashinon f1.7 5.8cm lens. It also has the correct leather strap and strap hangers and comes with the original Yashica metal lens cap and lower leather case.
This has been a long chase – but fun! The camera was sold as “junk” – Yahoo Japan Auction speak for a camera that is not functioning properly or has not been fully tested. Sometimes junk cameras are little gems and sometimes they are as the word junk implies.
We’ll have more about our exciting find in the next few weeks as our little Yashica sails or flies across the Pacific to our studio (at many thousands of yen).
Thanks for your visit and stay tuned!
Chris ^.^
A recent post by a friend and fellow blogger, Aunt JoAnn https://auntjoannblog.com/, made me think about some long put away bells that my mom collected (small collection thankfully)! Pretty little bells from her travels. Others collected postcards and various trinkets as souvenirs, but for my mom, it was always bells. Oh the bells! The bells!
This little bell is only 3 inches tall and about 2.5 inches at the base. It often sat near our dining table so it naturally became an unofficial dinner bell. It has a lovely soft “tinkle” sound.
The colors are beautiful and the flowers are lovely. It’s one of her prettiest bells.
We don’t collect bells and really have no place to display them. When your parents have passed you naturally inherit their collections of things and when your children don’t want these items (no room for them even if they wanted them) we’re left with what to do with them.
It’s a shame really, but the reality is that as we age our children will be faced with the same problems we’re facing now… no room in our downsized homes for such stuff. So what to do with the things that tie us to our past. No easy answers – we’re reminded just how fragile life is and how our homes are almost always in some sort of danger (Hurricane Harvey and the flooding). We lost some very personal items when Hurricane Hugo (1989) roared across Puerto Rico trashing our home. We were gone, our cats were safe but many things (from my mom) were destroyed (including some of her bells) in the rains that blew through our broken windows.
So that brings me to thinking about the latest disaster in Texas and along the Gulf Coast… some people lost their lives, families are torn apart, some will lose their jobs forever, their stuff is wet and in some cases swept away in the flood – damaged and destroyed. But they will have memories of the better times and hopefully will be able to put their lives back together again.
It’s amazing how one post in a lovely blog can help to recall some cherished memories. The power of words and the gift of memory.
Chris ^.^
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Do you have a bell or, maybe, chimes in your garden? I don’t mean the clanging brass dinner bell, calling everyone to supper, but the delicate bells and hollow tubes that sing in the breeze.
I have my favorites, that I put away before snowfall and bring out in the spring. My brother, a fellow gardening enthusiast, gave me two of these.
One is on its own matching pole, made of metal crafted to look like a bent tree branch embraced by a twining vine. It has a little bird attached to the top of the crook, and it makes me smile every time I see it. I put it in the front garden, ready to greet anyone who wanders up the drive.
The other is a more traditional bell. It has a green finish, and hangs from a hollowed out copper star, encasing a small, silver gazing ball. It…
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Old bricks make up our town.
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