Fine, I’ll Make My Own !%#*@@ Film
When writing computer programs, there’s a tradition of having your first one say “Hello World.” So that’s the title of this shot, which is from my first roll of homemade…
May 27, 2014
Tag: nature
Nesting
Walked outside today while my wife and son were raking leaves, and found this seemingly-happy bird nesting in one pile… good thing it left before I started shredding them! In…
November 20, 2011
Fall Flowers
The farther we get in to fall, the more I dread the shortening days. I pine for spring again. Occasionally I see something like this that makes me think of…
October 17, 2011
Coffee Coffee Coffee #2
I promised this one a few days back and then was distracted by kallitype fun. Perhaps I should have just printed this and killed two birds with one stone! Markus…
May 6, 2011
Coffee Coffee Coffee
Acros 100, developed in… coffee. We’ve had a couple of house guests this week – Johanna (here) and Markus (tomorrow’s post). The two of them have been on a year-long…
April 29, 2011
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2011
Made with a homemade matchbox pinhole camera, shot on Acros 100, and developed in DD-X. Almost all of my shots were terribly over-exposed, which I find rather unbelievable but undeniable.…
April 26, 2011
Hard Lines and Chilly Softness
Acros 100; Xtol. The deep blankets of snow on everything remind me of a bit of Dickenson: Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose…
February 10, 2011
Racing at the Speed Of Snow
Vroooooooo… wait, whut? Acros 100 developed in Xtol. Acros likes snow, by the way.
February 8, 2011
A Bit of Snow
Most of my shots recently seem to be of this fella, and I’ve grown a bit reluctant to keep posting him… but I just can’t resist this one. Had I…
February 5, 2011
Spring was closing in around him.
Drexel’s campus, shot in late March on my 1947 Bessa 66. Delta 3200, pulled to 1600 and toned in Lightroom.
April 27, 2010
Through the rain, the house stood.
HP5+, EI 800. This was during the “Month Of Many Floods,” also known as “Jorj Almost Builds An Ark But Instead Digs A Sump Pit.” While it’s not actually my…
April 20, 2010
Spring Magnolias
Surprise! C-41 (specifically, Fuji Pro 160S), from the Diacord L. Yes, this one’s really from the Diacord L. The surprise is that I managed to develop this in my basement.…
April 4, 2010
Signs of Life
Fighting an awful cold, but it gave me a chance to snap this one in our back yard today. Not only were the snow drops poppin’, but the Diacord G…
March 8, 2010
Sunburst
February 27, 2010
Snowscape
February 26, 2010
Tree #2
From fairly early in Snowpocalypse 3, shot from within the warmth of our kitchen with my favorite lens (Canon’s 135mm f/2 prime).
February 18, 2010
Hippity Hoppity
Back in the digital world, this comes from the height of Snowpocalypse 3 – trees had just started breaking under the weight of the snow in our neighborhood, and Jake…
February 17, 2010
Two Modes
On my first pass through Snowpocalypse 3 shots, I discarded this one; it doesn’t have the DoF I wanted when I shot it (hastily, during the peak of the downfall,…
February 14, 2010
In and Out
Continuing in the series of “Snowpocalypse 3”, this was also mid-blizzard on February 10th. Just before our trees started to fall down…
February 12, 2010
Big Dig
And the shoveling out continues. This was from mid-storm, around noon yesterday. Everything is much less visible now, under even more snow…
February 11, 2010
Tree
And a bonus shot for today! Looking out my back door, I saw this shot of our red maple. I spent a short while trying to capture it, deciding that…
February 10, 2010
Come Hell Or High Snowbanks
Honestly, I don’t know how these guys do it. Another 6-8″ of snow on the ground today, very wet, roads in terrible shape — and We Have Mail. You go,…
February 10, 2010
Snowy Sunrise Over Wyncote
January 16, 2010