Month: October 2025

Took the day off and decided to spend my afternoon down at Franklin Foto using the dark room and film scanners. Scanned the roll I took for my darkroom class and printed up two shots. Here’s one I took with my Nikon F2. Wasn’t happy with the print (the photograph I took of her with…

As some of you know I’ve spent my evenings these last few weeks scanning box after box of photographs from my mom’s house, photographs of our family history going back at least a hundred years. Tonight, while going through a stack of miscellaneous pictures, mostly of one of my parents’ trips to visit friends and…

The last time I was in a dark room was in 1993 or 1994. It was my second or so year attending Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. I’d just become engaged to a extraordinary woman and beauty who I’d hoped to spend the rest of my life with. And I’d just signed up for…

The second half of my day started on the south end of the waterfront. I’d pulled out my phone to get an Uber down to the ICE facility, about two or three miles away, and when I saw the prices my jaw dropped. $40 – $60 a ride? Apparently I wasn’t the only one wanting…

I’d planned to get up at 8:45am or so in order to get downtown in time, but ended up barely rolling out of bed around 9:20am. I’m not a morning person by nature so these kinds of rare Saturday’s are ones where I have to push myself one step after another towards the shower, towards…

More pictures. This time on my Nikon F4 film camera which continues to be a workhorse pulling in pictures much better than I could have ever wanted!

Last night I walked to the local dive with my new 500mm lens attached to my Nikon Z6ii. A beautiful lens, it uses mirrors which brings the lens weight ad size down considerably. It only allows F8 as the stop so it’s truly a Frankenstein configuration on the camera. Got a few shots in with…

I own most of the professional old school Nikon cameras, specifically the F1, F2, F3, F4, and F5. The F6 is still missing from my collection (it’s likely the best film SLR Nikon ever made and they can still fetch up to $2,000 in the right condition). I love them all for different reasons and…

I’m posting all the photos I took of Three Guys in Austin. Unfortunately, I wasn’t hitting my focus at all, possibly because I was mucking with my camera settings, partially because I was taken off guard when they asked for pictures and I wasn’t feeling terribly confident at the moment. Having said that, I did…

Walking has never entirely made sense to me, at least in terms of walking as a past time. Sure, I’ve done it, but my personality has always been tuned to “having a point,” that is, if I’m on a walk there’s got to be a point beyond the act of walking itself, there’s gotta be…