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

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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 4


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I think I may have eaten a maggot or two today. More on that later. I had to head into Kiev today for a medical appointment. I’d been having some pretty severe knee pains in the past couple of month and I finally broke down and talked to a doctor about it. I don’t know […]

November 4, 2011

Tech Tips – Firefox and Chrome Website Time Limits


Tech Tips

This month I did something I thought I’d never do, even though I’ve talked about it for years. I deactivated my Facebook account. I went cold turkey because I found myself wasting too much time on the website when I could have been productive and working on projects. In the few days that I’ve had […]

November 4, 2011

November – Day 3


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Having such a fun-filled November is already taking a toll on me. I’ve been exhausted all week. It doesn’t help that I had a little extra stress in my life because Peace Corps called me at school and told us it was time to test our emergency calling tree using land lines. Jeramie and I took […]

November 3, 2011

November – Day 2


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Two days in and I’m already feeling like a better man with the hint of a mustache and withdrawal pains while I’m drawing out my novel on paper. Today’s 30 Day Challenge is to shine my shoes. Everyday I wear my shoes to school and I have to trek 25 minutes each way over uneven and […]

November 2, 2011

November – Day 1


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And so November begins. I’ve realized that I’ve stacked a lot on my plate this month and by no means do I regret it. There’s something about being too busy which I like more than not being busy enough. I started continued my novel today, though my word count starts over today. My goal for the […]

November 1, 2011

Tech Tips – Offline Gmail and Google Calendar Access


Tech Tips

In yet another attempt to make you more productive as you travel around the country, I have a tip this week for you to be able to read your email while you’re on the go and without internet. Of course this message doesn’t apply to those of you who already download your messages using programs like Windows […]

October 28, 2011

Wireless internet makes my life less frustrating


Computers, Peace Corps

Who’s got two thumbs, a Ukrainian VPN internet connection, an American Dlink wireless router, and a working wireless network in his Ukrainian apartment? This guy. I’d been having issues with the cable for my internet almost since the day I got my high-speed connection. I have this new type of cable internet in town. From […]

October 27, 2011

Working on myself


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A couple of days ago I mentioned that I’ll be taking 30 Days to be a Better Man. I plan on following this through to the best of my ability in Ukraine (clearly I’ll have a little more trouble finding someone to give me a straight razor shave here than in the States). I’ll also […]

October 26, 2011

Why I Choose to Leave Facebook


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I joined on August 18th, 2006. I became friends with two of my closest friends within the month following. On June 20th, 2008 I entered into a relationship with Emily Meier. That relationship ended a little over four months later on November 5, 2008. I have documented photos of me singing, dancing and partaking in […]

October 23, 2011