Darktable Negative Inversion

Blog, Photography

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

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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Tech Tips – Distraction December GIFs


Tech Tips

To continue with your Distraction December Tech Tips, this week I’m offering something to keep your creative mind distracted. This week I want to introduce you to http://gifninja.com. You can use the site to transform your normal, motionless pictures into animated GIFs (moving pictures, think Harry Potter). The website is very easy to use; just […]

December 16, 2011

Catching Up with December


Peace Corps

A few updates which I think should be shared. First, I spent my weekend working at Camp Excite (our regional English language camp which we work on weekends and for a week during the summer). As seems it is the growing trend this year, we played dodge ball. I was nervous playing because I haven’t done any […]

December 13, 2011

Tech Tips – Distraction December Ngram Viewer


Tech Tips

This week’s Distraction December is a great tool for those of you out there who are obsessed with words and languages. Have you ever wondered how much a word has been used over the years? When did the word gain popularity and when did it slide back into the annals of history? Now you can. […]

December 9, 2011

Charlie Brown


Blog

I have yearly rituals. Every Valentine’s Day, I drink and watch some chick flick (usually Definitely Maybe) because the end of whatever movie makes me feel good and give me hope. On May 4th, I wear my Admiral Ackbar “It’s a Trap!” t-shirt or my “Chewy” t-shirt. On November the 5th, I remember the 5th […]

December 7, 2011

I Write Like


Writing

I came across a plugin for Chrome today, which just a redirect to iwl.me. The website is called I Write Like and the purpose is to analyze your writing and tell you which famous author it resembles. It’s a neat tool, but it got me thinking. Why do I care who I write like? I’ve […]

December 4, 2011