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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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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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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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Stationary Rock in flowing water

Rocks in the Merced River
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I feel like my sabbatical is reaching its end. More to come.

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Stone in the Merced
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I had a little accident a few weeks ago that left me with 2 broken arms. Seems i got into an argument with a car. He thought he was allowed to drive through the cross-walk while i was riding through it. Long story short – i lost and am now mending. It’s not really as bad as it sounds as…

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The Merced River
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I hope your not getting too bored of looking at the Merced! I’m getting down to the end here and will have to run a bunch of film soon. Some focus was lost over the summer – it should return here in the next few weeks. Servus.

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El Capitan and the Merced River
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We spent this past weekend in Yosemite and the river certainly didn’t flow like it did back in May when this picture was taken. The Merced was mostly idle and rather shallow. The only waterfall that showed even a wisp of water was Bridalveil Falls (see previous image). Up near Glacier Point there was no sign of moisture at all,…

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