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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Private Interview


Fiction

“Why did you do it John?” “Why did I do what? Why did I try to change the nation? Is that why you are here?” “You know why I am here. And yes, that includes wanting to know why you tried to change the nation. I want to know why you took that upon yourself, […]

March 21, 2009

1st person narratives of same event


Fiction

Part 1 – It happened when I was little; I must have been five or six years old at the time. I remember it being warm out, the end of May. It was a nice day outside, the sun with a bright blue sky behind it with a scattering of white fluffy clouds. My mother […]

March 21, 2009

Norman Agate


Fiction

“If you will just sign here and the loan for your museum is yours.” “How about that? Just need to write the eleven letters that make up Norman Agate?” Norman replied, wiping the mucus from his nose. “Now I will finally be able to break ground on the future home of Steve and all of […]

March 21, 2009

The rider


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I learned quite a few things between a span of a few hours today and yesterday. I had to return to my parents house this week to get a cavity filled and I could not think of a better way of getting home than riding the 10-speed that I put together. Have I mentioned that […]

March 20, 2009

I would be dismay


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I was perusing Facebook this morning when I came across a random event and clicked upon it to view the details. I do not remember what prompted said clicking, so I check the event creator to see if it was someone I knew. I saw the following: Nick Leonard (Hope) (creator) That is quite the […]

March 12, 2009

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I bought a lotto ticket today. I think today I might have better odds of winning than tomorrow or yesterday. I am not a superstitious person. There is only one curse I believe in, the Curse of the Billy Goat. Other than that, things happen because they happen. things don’t happen solely because they don’t […]

March 8, 2009

The right person to ask


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I found this little gem on the Twitter feed. Enjoy! Tom_Godell@almightygod Someone from Kuwait just offered me $24 million via email to spread the word of God in the US. Should I accept their offer?

March 7, 2009

Are you there


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I apologize for my absence. I want to hear no more about it. I like to think that there are more important things that I have been doing that have kept me from updating lately. The truth is, there aren’t. I convince myself that it is because of homework that I have not sat down […]

March 4, 2009

Peer review


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I do not feel bad posting this: So after I was done, I took a moment to feel that good, sleepy feeling you get after you come, and then I got on my clothes, waved bye, and was on my way. That was a paragraph in a short story I am reviewing for class tomorrow. […]

February 16, 2009