Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

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  • White Stag

    My next Holga shot is one that I’ve always kinda been fond of. I took it on a beautiful spring day in Portland. I beleive this was the first time I used Ektar and I instantly fell in love with it’s saturated tones when I got this roll back.   —————– Geeky Bits: Camera: Holga…

  • A very Instax Day

    Last week I decided to dig my Instax out of the camera closet. I’d mentioned to my coworker that I had one and told her I would bring it to our after school outreach program  to impress the kids. The kids were not impressed. That made me sad. I remember, very fondly, the days when I…

  • The Tree in Black and White

    Last month I visited Portland’s Japanese Garden with a roll of black and white film in my pinhole camera and thought I’d try pinholing The Tree. Here is the result. Today I pinholed it again, but in color, with expired slide film that I will cross process. I was there with my fellow Pinhole Obscura…

  • Cathedral Wisp

    Over Christmas I decided to take long-neglected Zero 2000 (pinhole camera) out for a spin. I finally scanned the negatives this past week. This was the last shot on the roll. I used the shot up at Cathedral Park in Portland on my way to dropping the film off at Blue Moon Camera And Machine.…

  • The Great Transatlantic Pinhole Filmswap Project

    “What if a person just sent an entire camera, with film re-rolled and ready to double expose,  to another person? My Pinholga is lightweight and cheap, so if it gets lost in the mail it’s no big deal.” This is an idea I had after pondering film swaps and pinhole photography.   And thus an idea started to…