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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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High School – Roll 13

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This is the last of my rolls from my film photography class in high school. Following this class, I had a semester of digital photography which I didn’t enjoy. That class had too much emphasis on Photoshop edits and those aren’t really my thing. These photos, however, are not the last of the photos I […]

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Haircuts


Peace Corps

Today I got my hair cut because it was long overdue. I’ve worn it shorter in Ukraine and I like it this way. You can see it here. Anyway, I walked into the barber shop and sat down. The woman who usually cuts my hair walked over and asked me, “Как всегда?” and I replied, […]

June 2, 2012

Tech Tips – Vacation Notifications


Tech Tips

It’s the time of the year where things wind down at site and we have time to travel for camps and to visit other PCVs, right? Nevertheless, one thing is usually on my mind, how will I check my email and let people know that I can’t answer it while I’m away? It’s simple. I […]

June 1, 2012

Tentative Christmas 2012 Plans


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So when my sister was here, we had the most brilliant idea to celebrate Christmas this year. Instead of having my mom’s side of the family over to eat, give presents, and start fights with each other (all Zawacki traditions); we thought it would be better to go on a bar crawl, as a family. […]

May 31, 2012

Making Excuses


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Hey guys, get this. I’ve had two+ cups of coffee today. That’s some sort of record for me. I should be wired for a while now. I promised to make excuses, and here they are. I didn’t write yesterday because I continued with my deep cleaning of my apartment, I started work on my new […]

May 30, 2012