It’s been a weekend that could have easily supported a blog post a day. But I’m lazy and I really was hoping to get a new photo or two printed before posting…but other things happened and I still haven’t made any new prints. So here’s the updates instead!
This one will be long with a lot [...]
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Busy weekend
01 Sep 2008 at 22:06
jhitesma
camera, darkroom, diy, film, house, new house, paint, painting, photography, projects, weather, weekend, wind, yuma
Being right ain’t no fun sometimes.
29 Aug 2008 at 15:28
jhitesma
diy, electronics, house, projects, radio, sdr, softrock, weather, weekend, wind, yuma
Yeah, I admit I like being right. Most of the time. But sometimes I really wish I wasn’t right about something. Like the prediction I made when we bought this house that “Those carport tarps won’t last a year” despite the sellers assurance that “They have a 7 year warranty and are only a year [...]
More time in the dark
28 Aug 2008 at 12:14
jhitesma
camera, darkroom, diy, film, house, new house, photography, projects, yuma
Still no safelight so I get frustrated quickly when printing, but that should be rectified soon. Even so I scraped an hour or so out of my schedule to try and crank out another print or two last night. Results were not quite what I had hoped for:
New negs
Well, with the darkroom functional for printing – though annoying to use without a safelight – this weekend Amy and I decided to work on the other half of the image and expose some film.
Read on for details!
Difference in Perception
So there’s a locally owned chain of gas stations here in Yuma who offer a cash discount. Overall this seems to be a very popular offering based on the comments I hear around town and see in the letters to the editor of the local paper.
Conversely we also have AM/PM stations who charge a “credit/debit” [...]
My latest darkroom
Well the blog started with my first darkroom, this isn’t a sign that the blog is ending…but I now have a darkroom again! Well, kind of. A new camera store opened up in town and we stopped in on Saturday to check it out. Turns out they have darkroom supplies, so I couldn’t resist. We [...]
Weekend projects
So the plan was to finish painting the hallway this weekend. That didn’t exactly happen. Then we noticed that the wood on the backyard kitchen is looking like it should get some kind of protectant on it sooner rather than later. So we decided to look into that as this weekends project. And we did [...]
Lootin’ the corpse
So, less than a month between updates – maybe I’m getting better at this after my downward slide. Before I get to the reason for the title though a few “Off-topic” updates. I’ve been miserable sick the past week. Summer colds are bad enough in temperate weather…but when it’s over 100 out and you’ve got [...]
You would think….
Living in one of the best areas for solar power in the entire country you would think I’d have better luck with said technology. But no, that’s not the case. Shortly after Amy and I moved into our new house we bought a set of solar path lights using one of the many gift cards [...]
The dust! The cobwebs!
Ahhhh! Man this thing gets dirty quick if I don’t keep up with it! Sorry for going so long without any updates. Things have been crazy busy in life the past month or two. And while that did make for lots of blog worthy stories – it also left me with no time to type [...]