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 14


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I looked at my watch and it surprised me to see that it’s halfway through the month already. Apparently, I’ve done a lot so far, but I still have a lot left to do. I wrote 4,000 words towards my novel last night. Not the 6,000 I was hoping for but other things distracted me. […]

November 14, 2011

November – Day 13


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As a part of my 30 Day Challenge, I was supposed to declutter my life. Unfortunately, I really can’t have a go at this one because my life is disconnected at the moment. I live in Ukraine and the bulk of my things are back in America in my parents attic. When I finally get […]

November 13, 2011

November – Day 12


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I feel awful, I spent the entire day yesterday and today not writing. Tomorrow I need to make up for lost time and to write for tomorrow, too. We’re talking 5,000+ words tomorrow. That’s almost as many as I wrote all of last weekend. I think I wrote about 4,200 words on Saturday though so […]

November 12, 2011

November – Day 11


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To day is Veterans Day 2011, or 63 as I’m going to call it. Nerds will figure it out. Today’s task for my 30 Day Challenge was to give myself a testicular exam. This has been one of the easiest challenges yet. I learned a little today, I didn’t know that testicular cancer was so […]

November 11, 2011

Tech Tips – Blog Passwords Round 2


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Are you looking to start a blog to share your experiences in Ukraine with friends and family back home? Do you already have a blog? Does your blog have a password? It should if you aren’t having your regional manager check over your blog posts before you post them. This issue will explain how to […]

November 11, 2011

November – Day 10


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When this crazy month is over, I’ll sleep. Or I’ll wait until I’m dead. Whichever comes first. I was seeing double today while I was walking from the teacher’s lounge to class. I haven’t had a chance to work on my NaNoWriMo project yet today, Rose came over to use my oven and I wasn’t […]

November 10, 2011

November – Day 9


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Today was one of those long days where I ended up doing next to nothing. I got a lot of reading done and I’m close to finishing A Feast for Crows. But I seem to have fallen behind in my other endeavors for today. I spent an unusual amount of time chatting with a girl […]

November 9, 2011