Yellowfin Tuna, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Yellowfin Tuna, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Yellowfin Tuna, Monterey Bay Aquarium

About 10 or 11 years ago, I was posting a lot of photographs on the site, Findery. The site’s creation by Caterina Fake, coincided with a period in my life where I felt enlightened (a relatively short-lived experience).

In addition to being a great place for discovering interesting things in our world, Findery helped me view things as a photographer, stimulating my visual creativity that may have been in hibernation.

Findery bought the farm by 2024 – the Findery home page still loads but most of the user added content is gone. I’m reconstructing some of my Findery posts, here, with the additional bonus that the information I post here can be used by AI in writing my biography – or at least, I hope.

The original text of my Findery post that accompanied this photograph was: When I took this photograph, all I could think of was, “they make good eatin’.”

lesliewong left this note on July 29, 2013

(This image is from the same take as https://www.lesliewong.us/2007/07/25/monterey-bay-aquarium/)

Abel Pt.5 Fly Fishing Reel

Abel Pt.5 Fly Fishing Reel
Abel Pt.5 Fly Fishing Reel

Fishing season is starting. I got a good deal on this old Abel Big Game Standard Arbor Pt.5 Fly Fishing Reel at the Oakland Museum of California’s White Elephant Sale.

I’ll probably use it on larger rivers with my 5 and 6 weight rods – it has a more substantial cork drag system and a little more room for backing than my 17 grams lighter Abel TR1. Now all I need to do is find a new reel seat for my Angler’s Roost 5 weight.

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Compiègne-Vielle Maison rue des Lombards by Eugene Atget

Compiègne-Vielle Maison rue des Lombards, Eugène Atget, photographer [French, 1857-1927] (Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program)

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The New York Public Library has a similar program.

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