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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November – Day 20


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I’ve made it through twenty days already this month, even though my plans might kill a lesser man. I’ve become a better man, a stronger man, and a man of many words. But my journey isn’t over yet; I’m only pausing it to write this as I listen to my stir fry simmer on the […]

November 20, 2011

November – Day 19


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My task for today’s 30 Day Challenge is to schedule a physical exam. I’d do this today but I will be doing it in the near future. Peace Corps requires us to have a physical before we leave for the country, halfway through our service and then before we finish our service. The upcoming month will […]

November 19, 2011

November – Day 18


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I added a new item to my bucket list today. I added that I my desire to be knighted. I had forgotten to add this to the original list but I had wanted to added before making the list. It’s there now and it’s a goal. If you know any royalty I can swear myself in service of, let […]

November 18, 2011

November – Day 17


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I made an all important discovery today, or maybe I just rediscovered. Anyway, I learned that caffeine helps me focus like no other. I thought it was just Redbulls, and given that they’re expensive on a Peace Corps budget, I had written them off as an option. It’s just the caffeine. I downed a nice […]

November 17, 2011

November – Day 16


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Today’s task for my 30 Day Challenge is to make a budget. Or, if you already have one, review it. I’m going to review my budget. I make roughly $225/per month. I try limit myself to $25/week for food. If need be, I’ll dip in an extra $12.50 at a time. This way, in an emergency, I […]

November 16, 2011

November – Day 15


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Halfway through the month and today was a big day. Today, I finally finished the four-book tome of The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. I started these books back in late July or early August and I’ve read them almost exclusively since. Granted, there’s been travel and work mixed in there […]

November 15, 2011

HIMYM – Tick Tick Tick


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My heart broke when I watched this episode. Maybe I’m took invested. Maybe this isn’t how it ends. Maybe things will work out in the end but now, I’m about as broken on the inside as Barney is.

November 15, 2011