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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Meal Time


Fiction

A food court filled with freshmen, The racks of stainless steel pots and pans stand taller than a cold iron mountain. Mystery abounds: the lines grow and shrink at random. Are the cookies cooked today? Grabbing a warm, wet tray, I begin my journey. I glance at the sandwich bar full of white meats and […]

April 6, 2009

Columbian Cheveche vs. Wily Weasel


Fiction

Columbian cheveche creates conflict At the zenith of flight Muscle meat taught against tendons Beneath, a beach on which, a weasel Greedily grabs for fishy food. The dark-crowned screech owl swoops Dropping down, daring the weasel to run. Struck aghast, slay of weasel on its way? Amber owl above brings carnage Talons making ready to […]

April 6, 2009

i g2g ttyl


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OMG LOL i no rite? Sadly, that used to be me. I used to write like an asshole. But in my defense, I was in middle school and most likely was an asshole. Plus, everyone else was doing it. Now I have come a long way since then. I like to think that I write […]

April 1, 2009

Not the best feedback


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What the Hell is going on here? –A classmate’s critique of another person’s short story What the Hell is going on here? –A classmate’s critique of another person’s short story

April 1, 2009

Twisted Reason She Killed Caylee


Fiction

Her sleep was interrupted by Caylee. Her meals were interrupted by Caylee. Her grooming was interrupted by Caylee. But she didn’t mind Caylee. No, it was wrong to say that she didn’t mind her. It would be more accurate to say that she minder her a lot because of these things, but since she was […]

March 29, 2009

It was not an apple that Eve ate


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Yesterday, I went with the guys for a fish fry. The three of us are all Catholic and we try to observe the practice of not eating meat on Fridays during Lent as a form of fasting. There are quite a few places within walking distance from our apartment that offer some sort of fish […]

March 28, 2009

The tinman has this problem


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I am working on my server currently and I was looking at options of things to install. I came across this message: Maybe Heartbeat is not installed, or your module configuration is incorrect. I hope that there will never be a day when I run into this message and have it truly scare me.

March 27, 2009

This blog is like…um…a…


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My cousin has become quite the compulsive blogger of late. Or rather I found out that she keeps a blog, of late. Either way, I have found some gems while reading through the massive amounts of daily posts she has. This one appealed to me on so many levels that I could not live my […]

March 26, 2009

How do I even apply


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I had nothing to do today at work, or rather little to do. In lieu of finding boring tasks I went about the web searching for a place to go for Grad school. If this shocks you, do not be alarmed because you are not alone. I haven’t really been sure what I am going […]

March 25, 2009

Sassyhacksaws 2.0


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I hope you noticed. I mean seriously, you are here and it is all around you (or rather this). But I redesigned the site. I know I sort of kept it a secret, that is unless you followed my Twitter this past week where I had a bunch of tweets about it. Let me know […]

March 22, 2009