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A New Instagram Filter?
I used to develop my film in a utility sink outside of our house. It was covered so I wouldn’t get wet it was raining but it was outside. It had lights and a bluetooth speaker so it was a pretty comfortable spot. Sometimes people would walk by on the sidewalk and start asking questions…
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Pinnacles National Park
At the start of the year we took a quick overnight trip to Pinnacles National Park outside of Hollister, CA about 2 hours to the south. Hiking there requires maneuvering through some pretty tight spaces sometimes in pitch black and up some winding stairs that have been carved into the rock face. It wasn’t supposed…
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Lost Valley
If you drive east on state route 24 from Oakland, CA you’ll go through the Caldecott Tunnel and pop out in a small town called Orinda. Many times when you come through the tunnel to Orinda the weather will change from cloudy and cold to clear and warm. The Oakland hills hold the weather from…
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Scanning New Work
I’d thought this through as part of planning on how to complete this archive scanning project: how would I incorporate my new film scans into this archive and keep everything well organized. It was actually pretty easy. Remember the twin-check numbering system I was using to keep track of all of my negatives? Since I’d…
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Final Equipment Setup and Scanning Starts (And Ends)
So with all of this set up and my camera tethered to the computer my office room was almost completely consumed with this project. I started with a dry run of a single sheet of negatives and went through the entire workflow: scanning, file name changing, importing to Lightroom, converting to positive, and tagging images.…
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Fort McHenry National Monument
Fort McHenry was the last line of defense intended to stop the British from invading Baltimore during the war of 1812. The soldiers at the fort held off the British for 25 hours, the extended canon fire through the night inspired what eventually became the Star Spangled Banner.
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3 Fall Weekends
I had accumulated a few rolls of 35mm from over the last couple of months and got a chance to develop them last night. Here are a few frames from 3 different weekend outings around San Francisco from the ocean to the bay.
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Weekday Morning Hill Hike
It’s definitely a bit exceptional (in the strict definition of the word) for us to be up on the hill around sunrise during a normal weekday morning. It’s kind of nice though as it provides a different perspective to something we’ve done a few hundred times under mostly different circumstances.
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El Capitan Climbers
It was about 7am and about 30 degrees F. The frozen fog was just starting to dissipate from the valley floor as the sun started to warm the air. There was a group of climbers maybe 25% of the way up the face of El Capitan. It’s been a while since we’ve watched the climbers…
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Ocean Beach SF, CA
Still testing things out here. I went through my photo catalog looking for pictures from Ocean Beach and pulled this small set over the last year. During the COVID lock down we came out here several times at the end of a weekday during the summer. If you’re not familiar with the weather here the…