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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Holly days


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So everyone knows, I made it through the holidays. Our family had an unexpected guest that we needed to cope with. It was a good learning experience for us. I think each of us took something away from Christmas because of it. Gifts were received, in case one might be curious. I received a few […]

December 29, 2008

Junior year


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I have been meaning to write this post for a few days now. Obviously I haven’t written it yet. Some good does come from my procrastination though. Had I written three days ago instead of now, I would have had less to talk about. It has been a weird week, a weird month, a weird […]

December 21, 2008

Got ’em all


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It has been a long time since I have felt nervous sitting in a barber’s chair. A long time, that is, before yesterday. I do not recall a time when I ever did not want to sit in a chair for a hair cut. The thought never bothered me, though I am sure my parents […]

December 12, 2008

Good times around the bend


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A few quick things to help me procrastinate. Tonight is my last night of work at the newspaper. While I am sad on leaving some aspects of the job, I cannot wait for my liberty. Now I just need to find a new job for next semester. I hope all of those resumes I sent […]

December 9, 2008

Publishing


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Incase you have not already noticed, there is a new link on the right. This goes to a new page I setup for me to post my ‘creative writings’ and such. Currently I only have the story I wrote to get into a workshop next semester. I will hopefully being adding more content soon. (Side […]

December 8, 2008

Mine is not a fashion statement either


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I have had a quote from this on file for a while now. In an attempt to procrastinate, I finally looked up where the quote came from. The article made my day. It more or less sounded like it was my own voice. Please take a gander: Why I still use Windows. My quote is the […]

December 7, 2008

Amber Glow


Fiction

As I look around I see boxes everywhere. Clothes are spilling out of suitcases and slowly making their way into dresser drawers, seemingly by themselves. Cables are sitting in a tangled mess on the floor after someone attempted to remove the one they needed and apparently failed. Computers have been placed onto separate desks and […]

December 6, 2008

Media writing and silence


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I want to say that this week has been really productive and I was able to finish everything on time. That is true for the most part, but it wasn’t because I was working harder or anything. I just had less to do this week. I am not complaining. I finally was able to finish Deadwood […]

December 5, 2008

A writer


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I tested out Google’s Chrome. As of right now it is lacking a few features that would entice me to use it. Most importantly, I feel, it needs the ability to do a quick drag scroll when you click in the mouse wheel. As a whole, it is my kind of browser, clean and simple. […]

November 30, 2008

Dipped in Chrome


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I am writing this post within Google’s latest product, Chrome. It apparently is a minimalist’s web browser. I do not have much to say about it at the moment, but after I have tried it out a little more I will give you my thoughts. As of right now it will pass my initial inspections […]

November 19, 2008