Zenobia Camera Test

Blog, Photography

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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Madison, Wisconsin Capitol – Fall 2006

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I don’t have the usual gallery to share today. However, I do have 20 exposures from a roll of 24 all stitched into a single image. I used my Kodak Retina Reflex S camera with a 135mm telephoto lens, all of which was mounted on a tripod. This was the first roll I shot once […]

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Run to Russia


Peace Corps

A week ago, I left my apartment intending to break the law. What happened is a far better story, if you ask me. I live in Sums’ka oblast in Ukraine and we share a border with Russia. I think where I live, I’m about 50-60km from the border if you go directly there. It’s close […]

July 9, 2012

VICTOOOOORRIA!


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This song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TraFxjPyDns is great and not only because it’s used in HIMYM. Why didn’t anyone tell me this was The Kinks?

July 8, 2012

An Ode to a Mother


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I’ve known my mother for my entire life, and now half of hers (give or take a few months). I’ve got to say, she’s one helluva woman. Today I don’t have a chance to see her, but I had a chance to talk to her; she’s off in Chicago celebrating her day with her friends. My […]

July 7, 2012

Tech Tips – Absentee Ballot


Tech Tips

In the spirit of this past week’s America Birthday Celebration, I’ve decided to write-up a tech tip that will help you be as patriotic as can be. This we we’re going to learn how to register to vote via absentee ballot. (Keep in mind, I’m writing these directions for my home state of Wisconsin and […]

July 6, 2012

Free Concert


Peace Corps

So the word on the street is that there’s a free concert today in the Eurocup 2012 Fan Zone in Kiev. Artists present are Queen, Elton John, and Adam Lambert. It’s a AIDS awareness event, if I heard correctly. Guess who is going. Peace Corps has taught me not to miss opportunities. If someone asks […]

June 30, 2012

Pest Infestation Eradication


Peace Corps

I have a problem with bugs. I don’t like them. I don’t like them flying near me. I don’t like them crawling on me. I try my best not to kill them, however, unless I absolutely have to. A few days ago, I blamed Ernest Hemingway for leaving fleas in my apartment. It’s because he’s […]

June 29, 2012

Tech Tips – Go Outside


Tech Tips

I used to have this problem with my computer overheating. I’d let it run too long on hot summer days and it wouldn’t be in a well-ventilated place. It would just shut itself off, regardless of what I was doing. Talk about frustrating. Does your computer overheat? Are you worried that it might? This week’s […]

June 29, 2012

Extreme Measures Pay Off


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I’m happy to report that it’s 3:30pm and I only just turned on my computer today. I woke up thinking that I’m going to write a certain amount before I’m allowed to open this Pandora’s box of procrastination. I set my goal at 10 pages or ~4,000 words. It took some time, as it should, […]

June 28, 2012