Warm breezes

The warm weather seems to have come back to us recently. With that blessing of sunshine I've been able to get out with my camera a bit more and do some exploring. It's hard to beat Oregon in the summertime. I've got some hike planned for the next two months that should hopefully produce some pretty shots. These are mostly from trips to the Columbia River Gorge, and the last two are from a great spot up on the west side of Mt. Hood called Ramona Falls.

Camera: Canon FT QL

Film: Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400

Listening to: Slap Shot - Last Laugh

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine.

Just got a new roll developed and was all ready to post shots from that roll until I was looking at my hard drive and realized that I never posted up anything from this roll that you see here. I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of shooting tri-x with a filter. Just in time too, since I just threw a color roll in my Pentax. Maybe this is why I can't have nice things? If you frequent this blog, or at least browsed through some of the older posts, you'll notice Eagle Creek again. If you haven't been and live in Oregon, or Southern Washington, I highly recommend it. Try to catch it on a weekday if you can, it can get pretty busy on weekends. Next time expect some pictures of snow. Whenever that will be.

-Listening to: Billy Joel - Piano Man

In Living Color

I got a pleasant surprise yesterday when I got my most recent roll of film developed. Color! I could have sworn that both of my cameras had black and white film in them when I went down to the redwoods. As you can see, I was wrong. Starting with the kitties, the rest of the shots were all taken while I was wandering around the neighborhood trying to finish out the roll.

In other news, I just finished shooting my first roll of tri-x 400 film. It's my first time shooting with that kind of film, and with an ND filter on my lens. So hopefully those turn out well. If not, I've got five more rolls to figure out what I'm doing. I also recently found out that I can use hearing aid batteries to make the light meter work on my Canon FT, since the original mercury based batteries are no longer available. So that's pretty sweet.

Listening to: Chet Baker - Medium Rock

Oh look! Pictures!

No real theme to this post. Was just sitting around watching Team America on netflix and decided to something somewhat productive as well. These are some random ones from the time since the last post. Go figure right? Life around SE, a trip to the coast, and a drink on Mt. Hood. Some pictures of fire, and stuff from my trip down to the redwoods likely getting posted soon.

Listening to: Team America World Police

Unintentional Doubles

Guess who's got two thumbs, and recently came up on a new camera? This guy! While helping clean out a house a few weeks ago I found an old Pentax K1000 in great condition. Pretty stoked that I now have the ability to adjust my f-stop, and don't always have to consider that bokeh that happens when I shoot with my canon. Now that I've got another working camera, I'm going to try to get back into doing weekly updates, if not at least more often that the few months in between this, and the last post. I'm also going to be sending the last two shots on this post to Thrasher, in hopes that they'll put one in photograffitti. So keep an eye out for Andy and Willis in the bible.


Listening to: Sick of it All - Step Down