Piggy Bank

Hello Lovlies,
I hope you can read these, if not, then I will retype them on the Smithy (even though the Royal is so much more fun). Glass keys, the delicious clank as they slip from beneath bumbling fingers... =]
Enjoy!

Edit: Yeah, it's pretty hard to read. Here's what it says:

I opened my piggy bank
Spilling its hearts all over the carpet
The metallic smell curling with the lint
and dust.
I am a rich child of large silver change
With minimal amounts of copper rust
It screamed as its contents hit the earth
My pleasure overwhelming in its despair
It shall be for sweeter things, I promised
Sweeter things for me.

The Royal doesn't scan so well. =[

This was unsuccessful. =[

White Bridge

Photowalk/drive around San Diego (Hillcrest, Banker's Hill, water-front near the cruise ship port) one rainy night this rainy week.

I used my Canon 40D digital SLR for a lightmeter, and shot fast, grainy black and white film.  Quite contrasty, and it seems I prefer the aesthetic afforded by 400 ASA film underexposed and overdeveloped to 3200 ASA, so I don't know if I'll be buying many more rolls of this TMAX 3200, especially since most of my old film cameras don't have film speed scales that will go that high.  More experimentation is in order!

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Canon Canonet QL17 GIII

Kodak TMAX P3200 in D76

Bicycle Pacific Beach!

Eve and I headed to Pacific Beach the other day to grab some fresh air.  Ended up being pretty cold, and not the fanciest of days spent at the beach, but it was nice to walk around and check out the typical PB mix of folks.

Tourists wondering why all the younger "home-turf" crowd are complaining about the lack of booze on the beach and how odd that must have been, college kids that will spend too much time studying the effects of that 3rd Long Island to make it back to Mrs. Wainwright's American Journalism 3 course, recently graduated kids exploring life post-school and pre-career, and 2nd gen. hippies intent on proving their parents right and their skin-docs wrong, on "There's no such thing as too much sun, or too much fun."

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Pentax Spotmatic SP1000 (dubbed "Germaine" for the previous owner, scrawled on the prism cover)

Pentax Super Takumar 55mm f/1.8 @ f/5.6

Arista Premium 400 (Relabeled Kodak Tri-X), shot at 100 ASA, dev. in D-76

Nikon Coolscan IV, resized and cleaned up in Photoshop

Have You Any?

Wrenching

Typecasting Intro

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Signing in for duty!

Hiya!
This is Eve, reporting for the Daily Journal of My Life, oh, and yours of course, too. =] Looks like a good place to start if ever there was one, doesn't it? Yes, yes. Quite fine.

Hopefully, we'll get the ball rolling and begin the scanning and posting process, but for now, I must sign off and get to the nasty 's' word... [[studying]]

Ciao! I look forward to hearing from... anyone!
Best,
Eve

First Post

Anthony here, starting this blog off on a very fine February day. San Diego has been quite warm the past week or so, which has made motorcycling most excellent.

We're (myself and the better half of this blogging team, Eve) using this blog as a way to record our musings and studies, both photographic and literary. We've just purchased typewriters (hers, a 1941-ish Royal Varsity in extra-studious black wrinkle finish, and his, a late-1960s-ish Smith-Corona Sterling in secretarial sandy mud), as well as darkroom equipment to fulfill our mutual desire to have more time in the darkroom working on prints than what our college courses can provide.

What to expect? I'm planning on posting my successes and failures along the way with the learning of new equipment, new processes and eventually, finished work that "makes the grade." She's planning on...well...I'll let her speak on that in her own eloquent way in a future post.