Darktable Negative Inversion

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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

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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

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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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Michael


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Michael was born in June 1984. He was the first born. Lizzi followed twenty-three months later in 1986. More than three and a half years after Michael, I was born. In these three and a half years Michael was treated as a prince, I’m told. The shoe boxes full of photos confirm this. Albums and […]

November 15, 2009

Left the starting gate


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Just a quick update on November events. I am still growing facial hair. I think the past few years I gave in and shaved by this point. I think I will make it to the end of the month. I am still working on my NaNoWriMo novel. I haven’t surpassed last year’s grand total of […]

November 11, 2009

Join the Wave


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I am happy to say that I now have Google Wave access. A friend of a friend was kind enough to send me an invite. If anyone out there also has a Wave account let me know. I would be happy to have some more people to talk to and Wave with. And don’t worry, […]

November 7, 2009

Slowly but surely


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I am only 2500 words into my novel for this month. I have a story outlined, its just a matter of getting all 50,000 words together in one place in a coherent manner. This might take a lot more effort than I thought it would.

November 5, 2009

Suck-o


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I overheard this while walking down the street this evening: Guy 1: My arch-nemesis walked into work today. Guy 2: Rachel Ray? Guy 1: No, not Rachel Ray. I hate Rachel Ray.

October 29, 2009

King of Salamis


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I had a ground-breaking moment today in my own world of website programming. Today I successfully was able to understand and write an AJAX script. Who knows, you might start seeing things become even more dynamic on here.

October 27, 2009

It must be true


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I heard the following in passing. I was on my way to listen to people converse for a homework assignment. I wish I could have heard the rest of this conversation: If there wasn’t any truth to it, the idea wouldn’t exist.

October 25, 2009

Witchy leaves


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I received this email today. Not sure why, but I like what it says. Hi Dear Creators, A few of you were away ill today, so please make sure you send your pieces round to the class well beforehand, ok? I don’t usually write notes like this, but here goes: What a strange semester this […]

October 19, 2009

Say what you mean, mean what you say


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I don’t like when people try to write self-flattering fiction. If you want to say that someone is infatuated with you, come out and say it. Don’t pretend to be that person thinking about you with nothing but praising words and obsession. I read a creative non-fiction piece today where the girl was telling a […]

October 18, 2009

Mr. Munroe’s Freshman Experience


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Sept 3 Dear journal, Hi, it’s Kevin. I don’t want to write in this by Mr. Munroe is making us write for fifteen minutes in homeroom every day. I don’t know if I like him yet. He keeps talking about us recording the freshman experience. I don’t like it. Why should I be forced to […]

October 18, 2009