“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
– Jack Kerouac
Blatherskite
Foolish gibberish
recent posts
about
-
Today’s featured Holga image is a pinhole image! I comes from my Holga Wide Pinhole camera. This is the park near my house. I have used this camera only a handful of times and looking at this photo is reminding me to dust it off and use it again. It’s a great camera!
Also, this is probably the second time in my life I used TMax film – maybe the first time I used Tmax 100. I really like this film. Really nice, fine grain. I need to use that again, too.
————————
Camera: Holga 120 WPC (6×9 mask)
Film: Kodak TMax 100
Exposure time: 1 minute
Develop: Kodak D-76 -
I mentioned last week that I was decluttering my house as per the instructions in The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up. Having moved on from clothes I decided to tackle my books. This wasn’t quite as hard as I imagined because I honestly don’t have a lot of books.
Books are the one thing that I pretty regularly get rid of. Still, I pulled all of my books off of the shelf and piled them in the middle of my floor. Then I picked up each one and asked, “Does this spark joy?” I was surprised with the answers that sprang into my head. I ended up getting rid of quite a few and now I am down to three shelves of books. This is kind of insane. 3 shelves. That’s it. And hopefully (if I don’t add to it) this number will dwindle as I read and get rid of some of the ones that I kept.Most of the books that I own are reference and nonfiction books that I feel I will use again and again. Every once in awhile I will purchase fiction if it is something that I can’t find in the library.
It’s interesting to see what is left on the shelf after going through this selection process. The books that are on my shelf are books that give me joy – so maybe these are the things I should really focus on in my life? I kept books that contained short fiction, short stories, flash fiction, etc. Lots of books of poetry and how to write poetry. I kept all of my books about photography. I kept all of my books about Buddhism, but plan to get rid of them as I read through them. I got rid of a ton of knitting books. I kept the few that I return to over and over again for patterns.
Now it is time to move on to papers. To prepare for this I bought a shredder.
I plan to get rid of every scrap of paper in my house with the exception of those things that I need to attend to. Honestly, there is no reason in this day and age to keep things like bank and credit card statements (and i am wondering if there really every was a reason to keep this stuff). I spent all day Sunday shredding and filled up two garbage bags worth of papers. As I was tackling this task I found shoe boxes stuffed with records from years past. The one I happened to pull off the shelf was from 2006! Why the f#$k am I keeping this stuff?!?
It’s interesting what this process is doing to me. I already feel lighter. And I am noticing this tendency I have to use shopping as a way to fill the void. I find that I buy stuff and it makes me happy momentarily but then whatever I buy ends up being just another thing in my house. I want to change that. I want to be surrounding by things that truly make me happy.
-
The December postcard swap is live! Sign up by filling out the form below.
This month’s post card was sent by Herschel Pollard, AKA Square Peg Pinhole. When I received the image on the right in the mail I was super stoked and thought it was wonderful. But then he told me that there were actually two images, that the image of the house was taped over the image on the left. I carefully peeled the tape off of the first image, and sure enough there was the second print. My day was made a second time!
If you would like to see more of Herschel’s incredible work visit his website and Flickr. And be sure to check out his Next Best Thing Pinhole Project, too.
-
I am very excited to share the latest results from the Great Transatlantic Pinhole Film Swap Project! These are Hank and Alex’s photos and they turned out great. Perhaps this will also serve as an opportunity to introduce you to the project/website and, perhaps, you will also subscribe. 🙂
The Great Transatlantic Pinhole Film Swap Project
Hi everyone! I’m very happy to participate!
I believe Alex said he underexposed his shots by -1, but I mostly didn’t, so my exposures dominate his a little, in some photos.
I shot my roll at the Seattle Public Library, with the exception of one shot at dim sum, where I gaffer taped the camera on a small tripod to the lazy susan. This was an imitation of a great pinhole shot of Jana’s, a few years ago.
Here are the rest of the shots from the library.
On an upper floor, there were some small architectural models of buildings which I shot close up. Each floor of the model was only about 4cm high. These photos turned out great, because of the real-life buildings in the double exposure.
Here’s one where Alex’s exposure was stronger than mine, but you can still see one of the buildings in the…
View original post 201 more words
Blatherskite 