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Fort McHenry National Monument
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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. Over the years it went from being an active fort, to an…

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3 Fall Weekends
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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. First stop was along the Embarcadero, somewhere I’ve walked numerous times over the last several years. I’ve…

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Weekday Morning Hill Hike
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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. I grabbed a camera on the way out the door…

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El Capitan Climbers
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Hasselblad 500c/m Tele-Tessar CF 350mm f/5.6 6×6 100TMX HC110-b See if you can spot the climbers © October 2021 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…

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Ocean Beach SF, CA
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Pentax 67 Takumar 6×7 105mm f/2.4 6×7 100TMX HC110-b Pelicans making their way South © July 31, 2021 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…

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South Fork of the Merced River
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I’ve been preparing some pictures from a recent trip to Yosemite, we hadn’t been in several years and i brought a couple of different camera systems with me. I’d also planned to shoot some color film which isn’t something I usually do. Most color negative film uses a developing process called C-41. I’ve never done that at home before and…

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Negative Scanning
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  All of the film based images on this site were scanned using a camera (aka: camera scanning). This might sound a bit confusing at first if you’ve never heard of it. You’re essentially just taking a picture of your negative(s) with a digital camera, as opposed to using a more traditional flatbed, drum, or dedicated negative scanner, and then…

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Flatbed Scanning
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From ~2004 up until around 2020 I scanned my film using an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. At the time I bought it it was one of the best (consumer level) transparency scanners available, used by a lot of photographers like myself. At this level of scanner things don’t change too much, the technology kind of topped out around then and…

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Digitizing Negatives / Film Scanning
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Over the next several posts I’ll share some of what I’ve learned about camera scanning and digital asset management over the last couple of years. I did a scanning project in 2020 that covered all of my photography since 2000. It consisted of mostly 120 film with some 35mm and bit of large format: about 1000 rolls (and sheets) in…

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Self portrait in mirror

How it started… How it’s going
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(This started as a test post and I think I’ll just leave it here for now.) Canon EOS 630 EF 24mm f/2.8 35mm Full-Frame (24mm x 36mm) Fuji NPS 800 Lab Basketball remote setup © c. 1999 Testing my remote setup for basketball games. I’d lopped the end off of a Canon cable release and soldered it to a Radio…

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