Today, I’m grateful for Chemistry.
https://youtu.be/ph8Lfs-bteM
Allahu Akbar! Continue reading “Chemistry”
Ramadan Kareem!
As of about 8:30pm CST here in DFW, the blessed guest has arrived. All praise and thanks be to God!
Ramadan is such a blessing: the devils are chained, so we can’t blame any of our sins on them; the doors of forgiveness have been thrown wide open, and so there’s no excuse for us not to earn His mercy; for thirty full days, we don’t have to worry about eating or drinking during the day and can focus more on remembering Allah.
Alhamdulillah! Continue reading “Ramadan Kareem!”
#Neopantastic! (Battle of the 35mm Nikkors)
This is my first time shooting Fuji’s excellent Neopan Acros 100. Given the cost of it, especially relative to, say FP4+, I might never have tried it if not for the #Neopantastic! event on Twitter… In order to give it a proper test, I decided to pit the fully automatic $2 Nikon One Touch 100, with it’s sharp-as-anything 35mm f/3.5, against the much newer FM3a, perhaps finest small 35mm camera Nikon ever made, with the well-enough regarded Nikkor 35mm f/2 D attached to the front.
Just for fun, I also used two different developers: D76 1 + 1 for the One Touch; Rodinal 1 + 50 for the FM3a.
Who won, do you think? Any bets? Continue reading “#Neopantastic! (Battle of the 35mm Nikkors)”
Unboxing Ferrania P30
After several months of patience (and forgetting), the first signs of progress tangible to those of us a third of the way around the world have arrived! I’m looking forward to putting a roll through and see what happens…
https://youtu.be/sBhrstH7660
Unboxing ‘Dreamwalking – the Forest’
Isabel Curdes‘ Dreamwalking – the Forest is the finest, most precious zine I’ve seen. In fact, it’s really probably a travesty to call this thing a zine: completely handmade, stab-bound, and printed on fine Kozo paper, it oozes quality and attention to detail, and is a far cry from xeroxes at Kinkos.
https://youtu.be/uMUNtM_HLE0
Unboxing ‘Tiny Plastic Box #4’
Jon Wilkening’s excellent Street Pinhole 365 just keeps rolling along. Images 151-200 arrived just last week, and I jumped into it as quick as I could…
https://youtu.be/6cTRhN4lWKg
Unboxing some David Allen prints
David Allen, of The Insolite fame, has some prints up for sale. I picked up a couple: Lake Quake and The mystical pool (r) and Lake Quake (l). Each one is a unique Instax Mini print of one of David’s great splitter/multiple exposure photographs. They make great additions to the desk, and keep me thinking about experimentation, voice, self discovery.
https://youtu.be/YKVK2clQy0c
