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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Peace Corps Service


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“Just because you lived in a mud hut, it doesn’t mean your service was any harder.” -Thomas Ross (Peace Corps Ukraine Director of Programming and Training) I’ve been back a year.

November 20, 2013

Web Redesign 2013


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I know I mentioned a while back that I wanted to redesign my site. It was probably further back than I’m used to for announcing website updates. And I realize, if you poke around this site, nothing has really changed yet. But don’t think I’m not working on it, because I am. I’m limited on […]

November 19, 2013

Thor and Other Nerd Thoughts


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I watched Thor: The Dark World last night, and I wasn’t very impressed. While it I enjoyed watching, Thor is still my least favorite of the Marvel storylines on-screen now. Two saving graces are Kat Dennings and Natalie Portman, who are always great to see on-screen (can anyone else not get enough of Kat Denning’s […]

November 16, 2013

Dinner Shot


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Dinner last night. I’m trying to make healthier dinners by adding a lot of veggies into them. Vegetables are good for you, generally low calorie, and they fill you up. Plus, they’re natural. I tried eating a huge salad for dinner the other day but I defeated the healthiness factor of it by covering it […]

November 15, 2013

Cat Feeding


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I love that when I wake up in the morning, there’s a cat sitting on my chest, waiting to be fed. I love that she sits in between the shower curtains while I shower, waiting to be fed. I love that once she’s fed, she purrs. I really love that once she’s fed, she still […]

November 13, 2013

Dungeon Master


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I don’t think I’ve talked about this much, if at all, but I really aspire to be a Dungeon Master for a game of Dungeons and Dragons. I’ve read great things about successful people playing the game and I want to be one of those people. I want my friends to be those people. I […]

October 22, 2013

PageRank 3


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You want to hear a good one? My blog. This little old website I started back in 2007, has gotten a Google PageRank of 3 as of press time. For being such a little blog that I was under the impression of that no one reads, this is a big deal for me. Just for […]

October 4, 2013

September was Success


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I got burned out. Or I fell back into my hole of seclusion. Something happened towards the end of September and I stopped updating. I was doing really well, then I missed a day or two and posted late and it became the habit. Life went on without me posting, but I still felt guilty, […]

October 2, 2013

Religion


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Religion is not something I talk about a lot. I have my reasons and they’ll likely come up but I just wanted to start by telling you that I don’t think you need to join my religion. I don’t want to join yours. I don’t care which religion is best. I was born and raised […]

September 26, 2013

If I hadn’t Joined the Peace Corps


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What might my life be like, if I hadn’t gone off to Ukraine with the Peace Corps? This question ran through my mind every single day I was there. I thought about it for hours upon hours. I’d sit on trains thinking about it, staring out at the Ukrainian countryside and sweating because everyone refused […]

September 25, 2013