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

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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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An Exquisite Corpse


Fiction

There was a sparkle in the eye of the dark haired man, as he watched from the last row. He laughed to himself quietly. It was done, he told himself; it was all over with and no one would ever guess he had done it. He walked away from the bank just as everyone else […]

January 20, 2009

Cadavre exquis


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As I already stated, the new semester began today. I had my first writing workshop and it produced An Exquisite Corpse. We actually used the technique called Exquisite corpse. If you need an explanation, look here. I plan on posting as much of my writing I do in that class as I can get around to doing. […]

January 20, 2009

Cat-blasting


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The past few weeks I spent on break might take the lead for the best break ever. I really cannot put my finger on what made it so good, though. Most of the time was spent playing Halo 3 and Rock Band with my best friend. If I figure out the reason, I will let […]

January 19, 2009

Creative Commons


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For what it is worth, this site is now licensed with Creative Commons. I realized recently, after much thought on the subject, that I think an individual’s work should be made available to everyone. My site has always made my work readily available. Now, I have made it clear that I wish for you to use […]

January 13, 2009

The Maz will be missed


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It is an odd day when you can put a car up for sale and see it sold within four hours. Today, I did just that. My Mazda 626 has been with me for three and a half years. Recently I decided that I was not driving it enough to justify having it. My plan […]

January 12, 2009

We can cease to argue about it then


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1. God exists and is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving. 2. If He is all-powerful, then He is able to end all evil. 3. If He is all-loving, then He wants to end all evil. 4. Evil exists. 5. Therefore, God does not exist. “We all make mistakes sometimes.” –My father’s wisdom in response to said […]

January 11, 2009

Work jobs employment and a little leisure


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I am back to working 40 hours a week. Have I complained about that yet? What? Over the summer? Ok. Well then, the good thing is that I only have to work there until next Friday. Speaking of next Friday, I might be off to a concert that night. For the record, I am not […]

January 6, 2009

This past year


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I feel as though it is some sort of requirement to look back at the past year. It just seems to be the thing that one does with a blog around New Years. This past year I built a website. This past year I wrote 72 blog posts for said website. This past year I […]

January 1, 2009