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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Tech Tips – Update and Backup


Tech Tips

Has there been a nagging message on your desktop asking you to install updates? It’s probably because this week was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. The second Tuesday of every month, Microsoft releases patches for its operating systems. It’s a good time to download and install the new updates to protect your computer. If you’re running Mac […]

July 15, 2011

Tech Tips – Hibernation


Tech Tips

Imagine this scenario, you are diligently working on the Partnership grant that your site has asked you to write for them (though occasionally stopping to check to see if a new Tech Tips has arrived) when you look to the corner of your screen and realize you need to run to the train station to […]

July 8, 2011

Hydration


Peace Corps

This summer I’ve been trying to get back into running. A couple months back, I bought a pair of shoes to help motivate myself (not running shoes but Adventure Shoes). It helps that the other volunteers in town also are trying to get into running. We support each other. While I certainly haven’t stayed in […]

July 1, 2011

Tech Tips – Save YouTube


Tech Tips

A couple of weeks ago we learned how to save the audio from YouTube files to use later in our English clubs. But what if you want to save entire movies? This week’s Tech Tip will teach you a very similar method for saving YouTube movies. To start off, open the video you want to […]

July 1, 2011