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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Cats and Slavic countries


Cats, Peace Corps

For the past few years there has been a small dispute about whether or not I draw myself into my comic. I don’t, for the record. But regardless, I did two things last Wednesday that was out of character. I forgot to post a comic before it should have gone up and I drew myself […]

March 15, 2010

Interviews and employment


Computers, Peace Corps

My apologies, I just realized that I didn’t update the comic last night. I was in the homework mode until I went to bed. I will try to get one up tonight. To answer the question, “How did your interview go?” It went, okay. However, I find it hard to judge because I think I […]

March 10, 2010

The SR and the interview


Motorcycles, Peace Corps

I meant to write this post on Monday but life happens. On Sunday I went to take a look at the KZ650 SR that I was considering buying. Much appreciation goes out to Geoff for driving me there. It was a six hour round trip for him. Anyway, I saw the bike and she was […]

March 4, 2010

Dannyzawacki.com


Computers

I have a few updates and thoughts in case anyone cares. Motorcycle Update: Geoff will be driving me to take a look at the new KZ650 this Sunday. Assuming the bike is in decent running shape, I plan to buy. The man who I am buying from has been quite kind in the process so […]

February 26, 2010

Charles Wright – Part 2


Fiction

Overseas I was sitting at home, by the fire listening to the radio when I heard what happened. The Japs attacked one of our military bases on the island of Hawaii. I was sitting in my arm chair, finishing reading the Sunday paper and I didn’t hear the first announcement. Gus did, he leaned over […]

February 21, 2010

Nearing Spring


Motorcycles

Once again it is that time of the semester when all the work starts piling up. I have a presentation tomorrow, a paper due Thursday, another one coming up soon and finally an exam in a week or two. Don’t bother me none. The heat is still not on in our apartment. I really don’t […]

February 21, 2010

Valentine’s Day


Blog

I made a Valentine to print and hand out, if you need it. WARNING! This Valentine is not SUITable for people who don’t understand How I Met Your Mother references. High Resolution

February 14, 2010

Jinx


Blog

I usually don’t like to comment on things like this because I am a little superstitious in this regard, but I am curious who is viewing my website from the Watertown area? You alone are the reason that my website traffic has gained so much and you alone are almost half of the visits to […]

February 8, 2010

Ice age


Blog

Within the span of two days, the temperature in my room dropped twenty degrees. While this might alarm most people, I should note that I keep my room between 75 and 80 degrees (radiators and a flat fee for utilities are my friends). Apparently the boiler in our apartment building broke beyond repair. When I […]

February 5, 2010