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

Blog, Photography

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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Reporting again


Uncategorized

My apartment was wired for internet yesterday and I finally had a chance to update WordPress. However, the newest version of WordPress doesn’t like my custom theme and that’s why the page is looking funny. I think this means it’s about time I do a redesign. More later.

August 26, 2011

Tech Tips – Cyrillic Typing Practice


Tech Tips

A cluster mate of mine during training remarked that he would have had an easier time learning the language if he could type it. I had to agree with him. There’s something about the repetition of typing that drives home how to spell a word for me. I while back we learned how to have […]

August 26, 2011

Tech Tips – Google Doc Sharing


Tech Tips

I know it might seem like I’m the kind of person who would sit in front of a glowing computer screen all summer to get my tan, but I’m not. I went to various summer camps, outside. For some of these summer camps I was asked to write-up a few of my lesson plans to […]

August 19, 2011

Tech Tips – Anki


Tech Tips

I hate to break it to all of you, but summer is nearing its end. Camps are winding down and language refresher is over. Most of us have less than a month before we return to our posts full-time. I think it’s as good of time as any that we start brushing up on our […]

August 4, 2011

Tech Tips – Disk Space


Tech Tips

Has your computer been running sluggish lately? Take a look at your hard drive space and you might find the reason the old laptop doesn’t run like she used to. If your drive is near filling its capacity, there’s a good chance it’s slowing your computer down. When a computer program runs it creates temporary files to […]

July 22, 2011

Camps grants and babuskas


Peace Corps

Summer business has kicked in full swing lately. I had one camp the week of the fourth. This week I wrote my grant. Next week I have another camp and the week after that another. I’ll try and do a write up when I get free time again but I wanted to mention those things […]

July 16, 2011