HaarFager's photos

I made this chocolate cake exactly two weeks ago. I'm pretty sure that chocolate cake is my favorite kind of cake - I certainly seem to make it the most.

Walter Payton, a running back for the Chicago Bears football team, was known as "Sweetness" for his moves carrying the football. This was a screen capture of my television during a game Chicago played against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For this photo, I remember that the local newspaper in my town had loaned me one of their telephoto lenses because they used a Minolta like I did. This was taken at a distance from my TV and zoomed in on just part of the screen. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: October 22nd, 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 NASCAR NFL 18hf

I had a dinner to attend and this is one of the desserts I brought to it. It's chocolate cake, with chocolate icing on top, smothered with cherries.

I've been wanting a waffle iron for a long time, and finally got one. This was the first waffle I made with it. It was delicious! I used my own homemade dandelion syrup on it.

Szechuan Beef is what I made for dinner last night. It was so delicious, I forgot to get a picture of it for my recipe album before I ate it. There was some left, so that's what I photographed tonight to get a record of it. Taken on August 28th, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

I thought this was an interesting bottle and label. Taken on August 27th, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

What's in there?

Everybody wants to eat a chocolate monkey, don't they?

Shot at Branson, Missouri on December 14th, 2013. You can see Winter had set in by then and snow had fallen all around, so I don't think many people were lining up to use these benches. Taken with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This is a Minolta version of the popular "Instamatic" 126 type of camera from years past. Of course, since it's a Minolta, it's better than any Instamatic Kodak or any other company ever made. It's got real glass lenses, automatic exposure and you can even adjust the focus. Can your Kodak Instamatic X-15 do that? Mine sure can't.

It kind of looks like money.

What is wrong with this picture? I'll tell you what's wrong with it. The hot dog is from a pack I bought because they were "bun-length" hot dogs; that is, longer than normal hot dogs so they would fill up the bun to the edge. But, as you can see - the buns themselves are no longer "bun-length." Food companies - please stop shrinking the size of our food, while continually raising the prices. I want my "bun-length" buns back.

The Cathedral Labyrinth is a maze-like tourist stop over at New Harmony, Indiana. Taken on October 8th, 2020, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This is a geodesic dome home built by Buckminster Fuller, and it's located in Carbondale, Illinois. Taken on June 7th, 2017, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

These Jazz 207 "Jelly" cameras are fun - the front of them is clear! I had been wanting one for a while to add to my Jazz 206/207 camera collection and finally picked one up last September 2023. They take pretty quirky pictures - but in a good way.

The local Methodist church has this old bell enshrined from the first Methodist church in Illinois. Shot with my second Kodak 35 RF camera, using C-41 process black and white film. Camera: Kodak 35 RF (made in 1948) Lens: Kodak Anastar 50mm, f/3.5 Film: Kodak BW400CN 400 ISO 35mm black and white film Aperture: F/5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/50th of a sec. Date: April 4th, 2012, 6.15 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak 35RF2 21ef

This piano was at a resort hotel just outside of Branson, Missouri. Taken on December 12th, 2013, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

I've had this Konica Autoreflex TC 35mm SLR almost 20 years now. When I first picked it up, it fired a couple times, then jammed up and wouldn't work anymore. I fixed it recently and finally got a good shot of the camera with a lens on it that I bought separately. Back in the 1970s, I was my high school's yearbook photographer for a couple years and they had a camera just like this one. That's why I bought this one, because I remembered all the fun I had using the school's Konica camera.