Darktable Negative Inversion

Blog, Photography

We took a trip to Italy recently and I brought along my Ricoh XR-7 and ten rolls of film. During the trip, I ended up shooting eight and a half rolls (three color, five black and white). At home, I had three rolls of color film I was holding off on developing until after the […]

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Zenobia Camera Test

Blog, Photography

Picked up a small 120 folder for cheap at a thrift store and put a roll of Kentmere Pan 400 through it to see if the 75-year-old camera could hold its own against my fleet of cameras.

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Thirty-seven didn’t turn out to be the year I expected it to be, in some ways that was good and in some ways that was very much not good. Leading off with the bad because it really felt like a dark cloud over the year, work drove me to some dark places. For me, I […]

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Photographing a Lunar Eclipse on 35mm Film

Blog, Photography

If you were to ask my wife why I do all of the hard things I do, she’ll tell you that it is because I can. And she isn’t wrong. I genuinely love to find out about something new, or old that I should be able to do and then spend days and weeks researching […]

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Six sixes. Four nines. Three twelves. Two eighteens. One thirty-six. The past year started out with my baby girl turning one. It’s hard to think she’s approaching two so quickly now. We threw her a big bash to ring in the whole year. Two months later she started walking and has been getting fast and […]

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An education


Blog

It’s official, I graduated. World, may I come in? So what does that mean? I no longer have to go to class. I can now read for pleasure. I have plenty of free time to putz around my apartment. I can get a full time job. Reading for pleasure is going to be hard to […]

May 22, 2010

Grad


Blog, Motorcycles, Peace Corps

First softball game of the season was yesterday. We won. I came home with a decent cut from sliding into second. The girlfriend is home for the summer, and currently on an island with very limited communication. I worked on the Kawasaki this past weekend and it’s made some progress, but I’m still worried about […]

May 17, 2010

Frustrations


Blog

I’ve got a lot on my mind right now. I’m not sure that anyone can help me work it all out either. I hope this isn’t what life is going to be like now that I’m not in school anymore.

May 11, 2010

Four days and counting


Blog

The internet was out for a good portion of work today. I could have used the time to work on one of my papers due later this week, but instead I chose to play solitaire. I’m going to try and crank one or two papers out this afternoon after chugging an energy drink. I had […]

May 10, 2010

Work and leisure


Blog

Once again, I have been slacking in my updates. It’s that time of the semester so I feel like I can get away with it. I had a few more problems with the Kawasaki this past weekend. It currently isn’t ridable. I took the carbs off to clean them and when I put them back […]

April 23, 2010

The Life of Charles Wright


Fiction

May the Angels lead thee into Paradise; may the Martyrs receive thee at thy coming and take thee to Jerusalem, the holy city. May the choirs of the Angels receive thee, and mayest thou with once poor Lazarus, have rest everlasting. Amen. The Old Country The grass still had dew upon it; the sun hadn’t […]

April 21, 2010

Problems with the SR


Motorcycles

Spring Break has passed and now all I have to look forward to academically, is graduation. I have four papers to write between now and then, one midterm and three finals. It shouldn’t be too difficult. I picked up the Kawasaki KZ650SR over break and I rode her around a lot. I would have some […]

April 7, 2010

Mohammed and the naysayer


Peace Corps

I finally met with Mohammed last Thursday. He is my attempt at getting tutoring experience before I leave for the Peace Corps (30hrs are required, though I plan to do much more). Mohammed is from Saudi Arabia. He’s 26 and he is here learning English so he can attend an American graduate program. He majored […]

March 31, 2010

Blog

I intended to write about something else today, but that topic can wait. I came across a video that is quite interesting. I’m not sure if any of you are aware, but the new Adobe Creative Suite is set to release on April 12th of this year. I’ve never been a big fan of the […]

March 26, 2010

Waiting for Mohammed


Peace Corps

In preparation for the Peace Corps, I was asked to start tutoring ESL students. The guidelines I was given for this were very broad. I need to have 30 hours logged before I am able to leave. That being said, I am sitting in a coffee shop hoping that Mohammed has a chance to show […]

March 20, 2010