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.

Images

  • thrifty $1

    This is the last of my Sandy In Black And White series for now. I need to load my Holga with more Tri-x and wait for a rainy day. This is one of the latest business in what is known as The Junker Building. For reasons I don’t understand, businesses do not stay around for…

  • Open 24 hours

    Continuing my series of photos taken in Sandy with my Holga in Black and White film. Here is the little market down the street where I get my potato chip fix in the afternoons on a rainy day. It’s got that kinda cool, run down feel to it. And it’s open 24 hours. ————————– Geeky…

  • The Little White Church

    At the end of last year – sometime in November or December (maybe even October) I was inspired to load my Holga with Tri-x and wander around town with it. It was a rainy day. I finally got around to uploading some of the photos this week and I kinda dig them. I am thinking…

  • Keep Portland Weird

    This past Sunday was Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day! I met up with several friends from around the world in Portland. We had a fantastic time together. This is becoming an annual thing, these meetups. Last year we met in Amsterdam, this year in PDX, next year we will meet in Barcelona. I am already looking forward…

  • 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…