Saw this place as i drifted off to sleep...

Weird...

Lost Shot

I found this shot lying on its side in lightroom, like I've never looked at it before...
Whacked up a couple of versions... ill go back to it sometime...

(click to see bigger- Duh :D)



Its from Cambodia, back in December...

So yay... thats cool. Cant believe I never saw it, its exactly my kinda shot...



I got test rolls back from the praktica, looks like that works! Yay#2

I cant seem to sleep at normal times. Not yay

Im better from the flu, so thats a yay (#3)

Yeah... So now i need a male-male IDE connector for my hard drive... then I can play more pc games in my massive pile. I wanna play stalker... I want to see nuclear wasteland and chernobyl!

I would love to go to Chernobyl for real though.


Guitar = definite yay (yay #4) thanks Mark...(where is your blog? cant find it... meh ill link later)



So yeah... good stuff... Im a bit bored though...

H1N1

It seems I've caught the dreaded swine flu... to be honest, I'm not really surprised, I was kinda expecting to get it sometime, as practically everyone knows someone else who has caught it.

I haven't actually bothered to go and be diagnosed, because it would be pretty pointless, but its more than likely H1N1. Proper symptoms started on monday, but I had a gut feeling on sunday night that I was coming down with something. I'm getting a little bit better each day, the worst thing was being unable to get sleep the first few nights. Apart from that, headache and dizziness... and too many crappy sitcom reruns.

Its not actually a really bad flu, I remember having worse, I'm walking round and stuff, but its supposed to be infectious 7 to 10 days after first symptoms, so I'm not going anywhere fast... But I would prefer this for a week instead of one day of constipation : |

I should get mixing perceptol and start developing some B&W rolls, I've felt too crappy until now.



this will take a while...

Colour Shifts and Caravans...

Im looking through film (and digi) shots from the uk trip I just came back from 5ish days ago... Its funny how easily we slip back into our routines again, back into my usual life... Im trying not to slip back into exactly the same stuff i was doing before, part of the reason i got this thing together, something i've meant to do for a while.

One of the expired centuria rolls has crazy ass colour shifts, going way blue or yellow, ill post some up soon..my guess is its partly (mostly?) the scanning, ill know whenever i get my flim scanner (could be a while)

I have been shooting a bit with some box brownies I found in the uk, (got 3, 2 of them working, one has a sticky shutter). They are made for 620 film which is basically just 120 (medium format) with a slightly different (usually metal) spool. the 120 stock loads fine, you just need a 620 spool for the other end, or they tend to jam up after the 4th or 5th exposure ( 8 exposures total on a 120 roll with these)
They have a single, fixed shutter speed which sounds about 1/50th ish, a switch for bulb mode (no option for a shutter release cable; you needa find something to hold it against while you hold the shutter release) and theres a pull out tab for close subjects (it says 5 to 10 feet) which puts another lense behind the original to focus closer. Winding is by a circular knob, and one of those red windows where you read exposure numbers on the back paper of the film. 2 seperate viewfinders, for horizontal and vertical framing...

cant wait to develop (ill try tomorrow) they smell great btw... that 'old camera hasn't been used for 40 years' kinda smell :]



also, in the UK, i found a Praktica MTL 5 B in a charity shop for 2 quid, no lens, but it looked good and seemed to work otherwise.. anyway, turns out this screwmount mamiya/sekor 55mm f1.4 I've had gathering dust for a while twists happily on! I got it along with a load of other random stuff (including a nice nikon enlarger lens (EL Nikkor 5.6 80mm) which ill probably never use) when i was buying one of my manual nikons off ebay.. Im chucking a test roll through it now.. gonna get a uv filter for it tomorrow (its an odd size, maybe 55mm). Cant wait to see f1.4.

- check out the shutter release in a wierd place-next to the meter and stop down lever-sticking out the front of the case-

BLAWG

This could be a kind of online scrapbook for me, somewhere to collect my thoughts, and try to get a little further, faster.

Lets see...