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Entries from February 2008

Polaroids

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Film, SoFoBoMo

Main Street, Minneapolis
I have used various types of Polaroid film off-and-on over the past ten years or so and alternately grow fond of it or am driven crazy by it. The crazy part is dealing with the wonderful Type 55 black & white sheet film which also produces a negative. I’ve been driven to distraction [...]

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How cold is too cold?

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · weather

Ice in the Mississippi River, Upper Falls lock & dam, Minneapolis
Not only has it been quite cold here for the past few weeks, but it’s that time of the winter when I start getting somewhat tired of it. I think the latter might be due to the lack of snow during February, so everything looks [...]

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Picking Pix

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments · SoFoBoMo

I ran across an few interesting blog posts about the book creation part of SoFoBoMo at Martin Doonan’s blog. It’s apparent that I’d better get to work on this book business. I really like Martin’s idea of a dry run with prints.
I’ve been working on-and-off for the past three months on getting all my black [...]

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Finished moving

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Administrative

Welcome to my new home!
I’ve finished moving everything, fixing the links and what not. If you notice anything not working, leave a comment here and I’ll see if I can fix it.

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SoFoBoMo (Solo Photo Book Month)

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments · SoFoBoMo

I was rooting around in Paul Butzi’s web site last week looking for some Jobo development times. Having found what I wanted, I eventually ended up at his excellent blog where I discovered SoFoBoMo, or Solo Photo Book Month. What’s that, you ask? Well, see the full rules here, but basically you get a month [...]

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