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!
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 [...]
More zeros, more ones – fewer knobs. Going digital … again.
Over lunch we stopped in and picked up a digital converter box with one of the coupons I got us. I’m a gadget freak and the idea of possibly $80 towards a box that should only cost $20 (so realistically it ends up costing about $60 at the store was hard to pass up. [...]
Shaken off subject
Ok, the rest of the darkroom will have to wait. I don’t have a lot of time today but wanted to say something about the excitement here in town the past few days. Specifically the seismic activity going on south of the border that we’re catching the tail end of. The past [...]