The little black book
This is my little black book, a Moleskine brand blank book that I use to record life details, including, for the past year, health data. I had hoped that by recording and tracking red cell count, blood pressure, various medicine dosages etc. that I’d be able to spot trends and otherwise stay ahead of the […]
Feeling good
Woke up today, feeling as good as I have in at least a month. Still caught in the dilemma between edema and steroid treatment (and we just finished a chemo round, so fatigue and mild anemia are a bit troublesome), but quality of life has clearly bumped up a couple of notches in the past […]
The garden is born on a spring day
Sweet spouse took time out of a full morning (even Sundays are busy for her) to run me to a local nursery, Roger Reynolds, that had lots of good-looking vegetable seedlings. Lemon cucumbers, 4 kinds of tomatoes 2 kinds of leaf lettuce, pole beans and mariigolds came home, and 4 of 8 boxes - half […]
Sunday morning TX musing…
This is why I like Tri X. I snapped this photo of Richard Avedon (one of my photo heroes) on a bus bench in West Hollywood in the 70s. The image you see here is a scan from a contemporaneous 11×14-inch print, and it’s been through various digital manipulations to arrive on the blog: looking […]
Tri X
I started using Tri-X pan film when I was 17 years old: that’s an almost-40 year relationship with, of alll things, an emulsion.
Kodak has kept TX amazingly consistent over its 5 decades in production. There have been incremental improvements in speed, shadow detail, grain et al., but there was never a wholesale disruption of the […]
A ‘film era’ moment
As I took the bottom off the M8 after our walk this morning, I had a sudden fear that I was about to expose the film. Holy 20-years-ago, Batman! The M8’s SD chip is unlikely to be affected by inrushing photons, as a roll of un-rewound TRi-X would have been, once upon a time.
Funny reflex, […]
Feeling better and walking
So we took a short spin around the block while Linda was jogging this AM: our first outing in nearly 2 weeks. We are feeling better: the edema seems to be moderating: I can walk! Yay! We even took our trusty M8 on our short journey and snapped a couple of pix.
We are pretty weak […]
Lightroom
Adobe’s Lightroom is an interesting photo post production product. I played with very early betas at work, and am now learning to use the just-released, and much-evolved product. Indeed, I’ve set up a Mac single-processor G5 just to deal with the plethora of pix we generate around here, and Lightroom is the front end on […]
Looks like this to me
This is how ‘World HQ‘ looks to me (as opposed to view, below), configured for work at home days. The MacBook Pro, left is hooked up to the 20″ cinema display, giving lots of real estate for email, calendar, browser and productivity apps. The 12″ PowerBook on the right is available for chores like search, […]
Lunchtime blogging….
Very busy week at work is coming to a close: thought I’d ‘come up for air’ for a little lunchtime blogging and other fun, before grabbing lunch and finishing up.
I snatched the Firewire iSite cam that sits on our 20″ monitor and put it in the Owe Robotic Arm that adorns the bookshelf, and snapped […]