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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Tech Tips – Distraction December Mad Libs


Tech Tips

I bet you’re sitting on your (furniture) now reading (piece of writing). You look at your (noun) and see that the sky is (adjective). “(exclamation),” you think to yourself, “I’ve forgotten to (household chore verb) the laundry.” But you don’t care because you have more important things to do, like read (subject of this email). […]

December 23, 2011

Stepping Forward


Peace Corps

I had a really exciting weekend. After the school dance I got a great package, as I mentioned but I also got some great news. You may remember that I had an advertisement in my old website design asking for donations to a grant I was working on. Well, with the new layout (which no […]

December 21, 2011

My Parents are More Awesome than Your Parents


Peace Corps

Received this package in the mail today. It completely proves why your parents don’t even stand a chance up against my parents in a contest of coolness. Contents include: An Angry Birds “Flippin’ the Bird” t-shirt A handful of instant coffee packets A jar of creamy Peter Pan peanut butter 12 of the best Uniball […]

December 17, 2011

Roseanne


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Sometimes I do things, regarding television, that just seem stupid to other people. I like to watch a series from the beginning to the end regardless of whether I’m enjoying it or not. For example, Seinfeld. The past couple of months I’ve spent watching all nine seasons of Roseanne. I’ve learned a few things while […]

December 17, 2011