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Sandy Mountain Days Parade

Photography

This is the week of Mountain Festival in Sandy. It is kicked off with a parade on Thursday night of Mountain Festival week. I’ve lived here for 7 years and I only started attending the parade 3 years ago. The first year I moved here I walked in the parade with the library but the library decided to stop marching in the parade after that year.

It’s kind of a dorky parade but it’s also really fun. It’s very small town, which I love. The locals put out their chairs days in advance in order to save their seats, which is kind of quirky but also sweet.

Here is a pinhole photo I took last year. Pinhole and parades don’t really go well together but I still try every year. I did this year, as well. 🙂
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Geeky Bits:
Camera: Ondu MK2
Film: Portra 160
Exposure Time: 7 seconds
Developed at Blue Moon Camera And Machine

and here are a few snapshots from yesterday evening.

 

Pinhole on a train

Photography

Here are the last of my Ondu shots from the Scopes meetup at the Chehalis Train museum. Velvia was used for all of these shots.

Red & Yellow

periwinkle & rust

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Pinholers on a train

After shooting several rolls through the Ondu my feeling is that, while I love using this camera, I am not super thrilled with the softness of the images. I can see how this would be a really cool creative element if you really were going for that look. So knowing how it works I will keep that in mind. However, the camera itself is gorgeous and a joy to use.

I hear the train a comin,’ It’s rolling round the bend, And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when

Books, Music, Art, Movies, Photography

My next series of pinhole shots come from a meetup of the Seattle Camera Obscura Photography Enthusiasts Society in Chehalis at the train museum. I took a crazy amount of shots that day: three rolls of film! That is a lot for me. Here are a few from the roll of Acros 100. I used my Ondu MKii for these.

It's comin' round the bend

I hear a train a comin'

Chehalis

No Parking

And here is a video of an amazingly talented woman singing Folsom Prison Blues in her backyard:

This is Caroline Hecht. She played at the Sandy Library a couple of years ago and she is amazing. I highly recommend her album, Swallowed by Swells.

Sunburst

Photography

When I got the new Ondu MKII in my hot little hands I loaded it up with Portra 160 and took it to one of my favorite places, a place I’ve pinholed many, many times. Zig Zag Falls.

I enjoyed the experience of using this camera. It’s a joy to work with, so easy to carry around and so easy to use. Here are some more photos from that day.

Zig Zag Falls
Zig Zag River