What a night.

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My Leica was having problems with advancing the film. This was an unintentional double exposure. The rewind knob would get really tight so if I tried to advance the film would slip and not advance correctly. Finally got fed up and took the rewind knob off, there were 5 washers on it. One of them was dented a little, so I thought it was that one. Left 4 on and tried advancing again, but it still got stuck. Ended up only leaving two on (a smaller one and one larger one). Works perfectly now.

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Guess I'll give this a try, possibly posting less, maybe not living up to that. Dunno. These were from the exhibition the photo club at my school put on towards the beginning of the semester (just to give you an idea about how far behind I am).

It was called Home. This is Jim and Lesley.

I didn't shoot coverage of the closing reception as I feel I should have. There were tons of things going on and many things going through my head so I'm sort of surprised I have what I did shoot.

Here are some flies.

Shot this scene again later in color, think that frame is much better than this bw version.

Ortho-lith film.

This sculpture appeared on campus early in the semester. I now know it was done by Mylan Chacon and the title of it is Bird's Nest. Didn't know that until just a few weeks ago. Gave Mylan a print of this shot..

Tuyen.

Maggie.

It actually rained earlier this year... My M6 got quite wet.

I was out behind our darkroom eating lunch (without my camera with me) and there was someone standing framed perfectly by the entrance to the ceramics place. He was there for quite some time. I finished eating and returned, but he was gone. I took the shot regardless, though it would have been much better if he was there.

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But I miss shooting, I've slowed down too much recently.

On a random note, I'm loving Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh by Bright Eyes.

I shot a roll of Ektachrome with a Canonet. Pushed it one stop and cross processed it, not really happy with how it came out, but a few shots were ok.

I'm also tired of making street shots at school, it bores me to death.

This was at karaoke a few weeks back...

During a crit at school. No bad comments for this class.

There is a cat in my sink.

Should be self-explanatory:

At school, again, boring.

I organized, hung, and exhibited in a gallery at school. The theme of the exhibition was Home. This is when the lighting was being changed.

No one was hurt, thankfully. :P

Then, this was in Montrose.

I'm in both (^ that one) and the one below. My mom's the one behind me.

The restaurant had a nice feel to it. Lot of older people, but older people are the ones whose faces tell stories, so it's all good.

The sculpture thing was neat. Wish the lighting was better, but I still enjoy this shot.

School. is so boring. I guess this is about a palm tree? Can't exactly escape them in so cal..

Dishes, primarily coffee mugs.

I shot this because I was already getting bored and wanted to shoot something. It was f/1.4 at 1/1000th. I knew the negative would be dense, but I doubt it's worth it to try and print it.

The light leaked over into the next frame:

And, that's all. I'm almost finished with this roll in my camera.

Manone visited our campus. There was a lecture and a demonstration. It was interesting.

I only documented the demonstration part, the small lecture hall was way overcrowded and I didn't stay for much of that.

Explaining different caps.

Demonstrating.

Everyone was allowed to try it. Suppose the only difference was that this was done on butcher paper, rather than the actual wall.

After the demo, I was walking back to the darkroom, which is just to the left of this scene. I saw all these people standing in front of the wall, thought it was the weirdest thing ever so I had to take a shot.

Turns out it was a drawing class (found out when I passed the doors to the darkroom, noticed more clearly that they were all drawing the vines).

I "reorganized" the lost negatives.

Not quite right? Printing color can be frustrating.

When I took this, he didn't think I caught him in frame.

At Coffee Bean (not Starbucks).

Light was oddly good here.

Commissioned. Such a small car.

Echoing each other.

They repaved a part of the street I take to get to school. It was only like this for one night. I stopped that night and took a few frames. The dust kicked up mixed with the headlights of cars made it look interesting. I'm not sure why but my panning shot looks odd. I would have expected it to be more smooth.

Movie night, later.

That's all for now. I cross processed a roll of Ektachrome 100G and pushed it a stop. The results were ok, I'll post them in the next entry!

Thanks for reading, those that do.

San Fernando.

Teddy.

Had his balls taken away that day.

Second time going to the annnenberg space for photography.

This time I was further back.

Dan Winters was the lecturer. It surprised me when he started off by showing his early work, which consisted of his version of street photography. The work was very interesting even though it could be argued that it's not street in the traditional sense. Interesting that he started off doing that.

Him and his photo of Obama.

Excuse the scratch.

Book signing.

Outside. Besides one kid (he was probably 6? 7?) I think my friend and I were the youngest people there.

Century City has this almost hospital like sanitary feel.

Went to Venice again. Found some ducks.

Not exactly chronological, since I rewound one roll, switched Trix+3 for Plus-x.

Annenberg again. Memory is disjointed anyway, right?

Venice.

More bikers.

Coca-cola can offering.

That'll be enough for now. I hope you enjoyed looking at them, thanks for viewing. :)