The “moving into our new office” party. For years I told everyone to wear their best cowboy getup so I can get better pics. Now it’s become tradition so I don’t need to.
I shot unmetered and just hoped for the best, something I haven’t been doing much recently. It’s not Tri-X but I think XP2 pulled through for me.
From the 2021 Christmas party.
I undertook several “commissions” if you can call them that, and I just hope my coworkers even remember they asked for these pics because I do have a backlog and it may take a while…
It’s that time of the year again, when the cold weather is upon us and I feel better about eating heavier food. Also it’s the time of the year when I feel more like cooking in general.
Usually if I make it I’m the only one eating it and while I don’t think I could ever get tired of pub grub I don’t quite make stews, pasties, or pies as much as I did previously.
I learned recently that while I was out of commission during the Summer another of our number passed away. Snake Eater took his name from the instructors at a Green Beret training camp, as evidently he was among their number. Besides him being ex-special forces and a Vietnam vet, I don’t know too much about him, except that he did tell me to be very careful about waking him up suddenly. I can imagine that reflexes die hard. He did tend to do a lot of napping around the office so it was good advice which we all followed.
Ken, I miss you buddy, and I hope you’re getting plenty of rest now.
But then you should know that already.
Don’t shoot my foot off if I make a repost, I’m just happy that I was able to shoot him in color between his Summer job and his Winter one!
I’m psyching myself up to go freeze myself outdoors on a tour, hope I make it…
The third and final day that I drove the trolley last year.
I didn’t have to drive it at all this year…so far…
This film was on sale at my local camera store, expired between 2006 and 2008. I decided to give it a try, I mean why not? So this is about the last week in November and first week and a half or so in December.
It’s not bad stuff. I shot it sometimes at ASA200 and sometimes ASA100, and think it works well outside: shadow detail can be a bit lacking otherwise. Also for some reason the film scans always came back really dirty, lots of stuff like dust, etc, on the negatives. I shot a lot of Ilford XP2 last year and I will say that it’s nice having at least that chromogenic film stock available but I wish that Kodak would bring this back at some point…and also Plus-X. Shooting the expired stuff is fine for a bit of a change but all my reflexes at this point are for shooting ASA400 film and I don’t really want to change that up too much. I think I had 6 rolls total and they’re all gone; I don’t plan on getting more.
This was how I found my mom’s house when I arrived the day after she died; she’d been in the hospital for about a week and a half at that point.
It still gets me how differently people can be affected by the virus. I currently have it myself and am almost back to normal already after just a week. But because of that there will definitely be a Part 3…
The final series of images where I was trying out Ilford XP2 for the first time.
Not that there aren’t more but I’ve been shooting a few different emulsions since the start of the year, some new and some old friends.
The Resurrected Camera 