my life, as far as i know.

been at work since 1:30am this morning. still working. emergency from major power outage. my coworkers left hours ago. :-/

not sure how i did this.. it’s what’s on the negative though. maybe it was a long exposure. shot this at salton sea with the kiev-60. could probably benefit from cropping.

it’s overcast today but still colorfull.

i’ve been sick for the past week. on thanksgiving day i got worse with additional ailments. feeling better this morning. ugh, i hate being sick.

on the way into work this morning i listened to some good alan parsons project. today for work it’s dream theatre on the rio in honour of bdaniels — now two people are playing d.t. today!

i just figured out how to clean the look-down viewer on the voigtlander.

the weekend was good overall.

more camera-think.
coughing a lot from congestion… same yearly sickness as always..

tomorrow i’m going up to san francisco to show someone the video camera. then i’m meeting up with a friend to return his photo stuff. plus i’m bringing a camera or two to play with, since the forecast is mostly sunny. then i’m going to see the diane arbus exhibit at sf-moma. this week i’m gonna print from 6×9 negs!

and im talking with sandy/peter/boman i am less sure about my pro camera purchase. turns out our waiter at dinner has a rb67 and had a question about cable releases! mmm, 6×7. i think i’m leaning towards getting a 6×7. maybe with mlu and a fast lens the cameras would be more hand-holdable..

should i get a #87 filter for the kiev?

*dreaming about cameras..*

yay, my beseler 6×9 carrier arrived today! now i can start making prints from the folding cameras. happy times.

i want a zeroimage zero45 :-)

here’s an update on my life:

and since everybody is making how-well-do-you-know-me quizzes and i am no fun, i will just tell you answers to ten identifying questions about me:

by the way..

i took these at a party. i was bummed that nothing i shot really turned out. it was an experiment, so i guess the only thing i lost was time.

shot with a lomo action sampler; kodak p3200; rodinal(1+24) for 12-20 minutes

i was browsing photogeek sites when i saw came upon this:

and thought immediately of paeyl.

it’s coming on Christmas
they’re cutting down trees
they’re putting up reindeer
and singing songs of joy and peace
oh i wish i had a river
i could skate away on..

but it don’t snow here
it stays pretty green
i’m going to make a lot of money
then i’m going to quit this crazy scene
i wish i had a river
i could skate away on..

joni mitchell, “river”

got thing done today.

taking tonight off to relax.

a scan from my first color roll in the kiev. i think i’ll pass on color for now until i know what i’m doing.. or get a camera that can do more of the thinking. this frame turned out kind of surreal. a combination of the equipment, the exposure and the crazy scan.

today was an interesting day.

this morning at the coffee shop i read the palo alto daily. the police blotter had an entry that caught my attention: Monday. 1500 Block Mariposa Avenue. 7:35AM. 3 Pumpkins were stollen from a man’s porch. it must have been a slow day.

i had dinner at kfc. inside the restaurant, as you leave, there’s an image of the colonel saying, “hasta ma�ana!“. i love california.

on my way to the palo alto art center, i saw a license plate whose border read: tongan pride.

finally, i showed two prints at the pacc print night meeting. though neither of my prints placed or got honorable mention, i was still proud of them and got some good feedback and compliments on them. i was watching the judge sort out the prints; mine were the first to be ruled out.

oh ya, i also bought five boxes of film :-)

took my little stepbrother rock climbing. we talked about all sorts of stuff.. more camera/photography stuff, about my childhood and what i used to do, and about wine. it was a nice way to spend the evening. i missed seeing my dad and stepmom, since they went to see simon and garfunkel at the hp pavillion.

i was at golden gate park today when a guy was watching me take pictures. he took one of me on the bridge.. i was focusing my camera on the flower conservatory building. i saw he was leaving, and i was curious about what camera he was using.. so i intercepted him. turns out it was a holga (and made me think of spacenuke.. hehe). i struck up a conversation with him, about my holgas. i told him a brief synopsys of my history of camera obcession and showed him the 30mm on my kiev-60. was fun.