Exploring Creativity Later in Life
After the success of shooting Lomography Color Negative 800 with my Minolta X-700, I decided to give it a try in my Canon EOS Rebel 2000. As with the roll in my Minolta, I shot a portion of the images … Continued
I have gotten off to a slow start with film photography this year. I didn’t get my first roll developed until mid-March and only recently finished a 2nd roll. As I had done with that first roll of film, I … Continued
At the beginning of 2020, I wrote a post about the cameras I had as of December 2019. At that time, I was collecting film cameras rather quickly. I had some intention of writing subsequent inventory updates, but my camera … Continued
With winter winding down, March was a more interesting month. The weather was hit and miss with a lot of wind. I already wrote about some of the more noteworthy things: Long Birthday Weekend 2022 Year Two of Pandemic Life … Continued
By this time last year, I had shot 8 rolls of film. This year is off to a slow start. We haven’t had a bad winter but what bad weather we’ve had has aligned with the days I’ve had time … Continued
March 16, 2020 will be a date Holly and I will always remember as the day the coronavirus pandemic became real for us. That’s the day when Temple University, where we work, shut down. Classes moved online and staff began … Continued
Holly and I took a long weekend early in March to celebrate my birthday. The time off was very welcomed since we hadn’t had a day off from work since our winter break at the end of December. Not surprisingly … Continued
February was another fairly quiet winter/pandemic month. The big news was my buying a new camera: a Nikon Z fc. I wrote a post about getting it and a post about my first lengthy outing with it. The weather started … Continued
Last year around my birthday, I re-read E.M. Cioran’s The Trouble with Being Born. In my February 2021 Update post, I mentioned that I had I noted that many of his aphorisms were over-the-top bleak. Some of them are so … Continued
As I mentioned in my post about my new Nikon Z fc, I went on a short walk to test it out. More recently, Holly and I took a longer walk along the Schuylkill River Trail which gave me an … Continued