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

Electric eye

I got off work this morning at about 7am, after getting to work yesterday at 6:30pm. I have to be back in about two hours. I'm tired, but I thought I'd be a lot worse for wear that this point. I recently got some old rolls of film developed, and to share them with some old friends I was uploading them to my photobucket, where I noticed these old photos. I believe these are from '05 or '06, shot with some shitty little digital pocket cam. I always liked the way that they turned out, hopefully you like them too.

Listening to: Tom Waits - Chicago

How Beautiful to Be

So I bought a tripod at an antique store last week for eight bucks. A few nights ago I hung out in the backyard at night and messed around with some longer exposures a little bit. These are some of the results. I'm pretty psyched for how the look. Expect more night shots, and long exposures soon. Also I went to the grand opening of a star wars store today, so there should be some stormtrooper pics on here pretty soon as well.

Listening to: Bjork - Joga

Squirrel, duck, and some other stuff

So the weather has finally begun to feel like what Portland normally feels like in the winter. It's not super cold out, but it's not warm, and the forecast shows nothing but rain. At least if I can't skate there should be a bunch of puddles I can take pictures of. That duck up there, was one of six or seven stuffed animals that Cody and I won out of a crane machine, at the nickle arcade on Halsey one day. The one of the side view mirror was a total accident. I was fucking around with the camera while I was sitting at a red light, it accidentally snapped a photo, and much to my surprise the shot turned out ok. The other pictures are just from the backyard because I'm lazy like that. I should have some new color shots to put up here in the next couple of days.

Listening to: Kylesa - To Walk Alone