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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Working on Publishing


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Back in college, I needed to put together a senior thesis for my creative writing degree. What came out of that was The Life of Charles Wright. While at the time I wasn’t completely happy with how it turned out, it has recently grown on me. I still think it needs a heavy hand of […]

February 17, 2013

Which Bond is Best


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After recently seeing James Bond 007 – Skyfall and I want to watch the rest of the James Bond films, in order. Is this a good idea, or a horribly bad one? I’ve really only ever seen the recent Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and From Russia with Love. So this actually could be a bad idea and I don’t […]

February 3, 2013

Best Man, Married


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This post isn’t really much more than a link to another post on some other website. You’ve been warned. Please go check out the awesome photos from one of my best friend’s wedding. They’re over at A Sunshine Moment. You may notice me in some of the photos, I’m the good-looking guy that is more […]

January 31, 2013

January, What Happened?


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January has been busy to the point where even when I have time to write, I don’t because I’m exhausted. Work, and commuting to and from work each day, really takes a lot out of me. There’s not much else to say in that area except I can describe my job by quoting Tom Smykowski […]

January 31, 2013

Finnish School


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At some point or another I became interested in schooling and how to improve on it in America because, if you’re unaware, Americans are falling behind. While it doesn’t piqué my interest quite nearly as much as green energy, I still enjoy reading an article or two from time to time. Anyway, that’s a roundabout […]

January 27, 2013

Another Year Ends, Looking Forward Now


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It’s been a year now since I last looked back. I think I’ve come a long way, both physically and mentally. Any year I can say that is a good year, if you ask me. In the first half of the year, I spent much of my time working with students to prepare them for […]

January 1, 2013

Saving Money


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Thursdays at work and I don’t seem to get along. Two Thursdays ago, the computer didn’t want to cooperate with me. I couldn’t get any of my work done and it was really frustrating because I knew I was going to fall behind on things. I went home early, not because of the computer but […]

December 30, 2012

A Zawacki Christmas


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It was Christmas on Monday, for those of you non-Christians out there who are unaware. As a confirmed Catholic, I hope you had a good Christmas. As a born human, I hope you had a great day regardless of what you did. Every year for Christmas eve, my mom’s side of the family gathers at […]

December 28, 2012

Train to Chicago


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On Sunday, I went down to Chicago with my mom, aunt, cousin, and sister to pick up my other cousin from the train station. We drove to Harvard and then took the train downtown. Originally, I was just going to snap a few photos of the train to share with my Ukrainian friends back home […]

December 27, 2012