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I am very excited to see another result from the Transatlantic Pinswap camera! This is a little project I came up with a couple of years ago. My friend, Todd Schlemmer provided the camera. We shoot a roll of film, rewind it, and then send it on to another person. They double expose the roll, shoot another roll, rewind, rinse, repeat. 🙂 check it out! It’s a bit slow going (cause it’s pinhole) but always fun to see a new post. This particular post features Jana and  JesĂşs.
The Great Transatlantic Pinhole Film Swap Project
The Great Transatlantic Pinhole Camera made the long journey from Jesus in Barcelona to my home in Seattle just two months ago. I got a little nervous when Jesus informed me the camera had been sent in February and a month later I still hadn’t received notice of delivery.
Thank goodness luck was on our side and about a week later a USPS notice appeared on my door. I drove to the post office and picked up a square box which rattled and made a noise like a child’s toy when the post officer placed it on the table. Inside the box was the camera, a few ziploc bags filled with 3D printed goodies, a notebook (gasp!) and a big magnet about Norfolk. I added a Seattle magnet from my fridge.
I shot Jesus’ exposed roll around Seattle, during dim sum with friends, then took it on the journey with me back…
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I developed and scanned the photos I took on Pinholeday, and now I have to choose one to post to the gallery. This is difficult. There are 3 photos from the roll that I really like. There is one that I like the best. Usually I am “go with your gut” kind of person, but this time I think I will ruminate on it for a couple of weeks. I have until the end of the month to post.
In the meantime, I will use the 3 images as my photoblog images for May.
This one was taken at the wonderful Parc de la Ciutadella and this particular shot is of the Arc de Triomf.
It just so happens that this photo was in Flickr Explore yesterday (It’s dropped out today, for some reason). It’s always a nice ego boost when this happens. It’s also really cool to see film/pinhole photography in Explore.——————————–
Geeky Bits:
Camera: Terrapin Bijou, Incher configureation (25.4mm)
Film: Ektar 100
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I’ve heard Marvin Gaye’s, “Mercy, Mercy Me” twice in the last 24 hours from two completely different sources. So I guess it is the song of the day. 🙂
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Thank you for the encouraging comments on my post yesterday! Much appreciated!
The other part of this thought is the realization that I pile too much practice on myself. I tend to do this and it is insidious. I feel that daily practice is very important. However, I can only do so much in a day! So I tend to have too many things I aspire to do in a day and then it stresses me out.
A small example of this occurs within my meditation practice. So the very baseline goal is to meditate everyday for at least 10 minutes. However, somewhere along the way I added different types of meditation practice  three days a week. Then I added reading a particular sutra every night before I got to bed. Etc. I have all of these things that I “have to do.” Stripping all of this away for a few weeks has made me realize that I am too hard on myself! I have reset my meditation practice and an going to just focus on 10 minutes almost everyday (because lets face it, I don’t get to it every single day.)
I do this with everything. Running. Drawing. Anything in which I have developed a practice. This is something for me to work on. I am not sure how to fix this, but realizing it is probably a step in the right direction.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, maybe doing what is right in front of me at this very moment is perfect. Maybe I don’t have to aspire to anything. Maybe just eating this big salad and reading this book is enough.
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