I broke my phone

You can try to negotiate with gravity but it’s an asshole and you will lose.
Alyska teching a class.

Amazingly, after 9 years of iPhones, this is my first shattered screen. Having dropped numerous phones before, one time on a stone tile floor, I assume this is my tech karma.

Veins

Such is the fate of modern technology. And such is the false confidence in modern technology: it feels more permanent than stuff before though it rarely is.

Compare to the following:

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This was going to be an old tech versus new tech conversation. (I mean, paper created in China in 150 AD is still around. I probably only have first first iPhone because Apple hadn’t a recycle/repurchase program yet.) But really, there are benefits and draw backs to everything.

Tech evolves, file formats change, phones break. Paper is static, doesn’t have batteries, doesn’t back up to the cloud (uness you can throw reaaaaaaalllllly faaaaaaaarrr).

In short, I’m impressed this is my first busted phone and cats do’t appreciate when you chuck notebooks around the house.

Also: I’m lucky that I am able to afford getting this thing repaired.

This is Courtney

I used to be more bashful about portraits, even with friends. Of late, I am more strongly compelled by my desire, if not need, to capture an excellent shot when the opportunity presents. The light yesterday coming through the windows at this coffee shop was magnificent.

This is Courtney. She is a wonderful human being both inside and out. She would, of course, vehemently laugh it off.

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Thinking that doesn’t hide the light in her eyes.

She, like most people, doesn’t like having a camera trained on her. She, like many, thinks she isn’t a particularly attractive person.

She, like most people, is wrong.

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Until you mention that she is blushing.

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At which point the light bubbles over in to endearing and delighted laughter. Which always gives way to reluctant, and a little dubious, amusement.

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A Bow Tie With A Mission

After the(successful) morning at Social Security, Alyska and I went down town to study, wander, and Ingress. I had my camera in tow. I forget just how magnificent the Capitol can be.

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Not enough bow ties in the world.

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There was a dude with a medium format, wet plate set up. He had to calculate and time the exposure for each plate.

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A grey day on campus.

Took my studies downtown today as an excuse to walk around. It was very grey and very few people were out.

Dreary and cold and grey.

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But the flowers are blooming and there’s hope for spring.

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Faceless

Subtitle: Because “headless” sounds creepy.

I like to shoot from the hip but I’m not terribly good at it. After a few interesting accidents with hip shots, I developed a framing pattern I started to like - headless people.

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I’m pretty sure this is how projects go. Photog tries a thing, it doesn’t work, tries again, it doesn’t work again in the same way, Photog ignores it and tries again because Photog is thick-headed.

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Usually, I go for it in camera but I occasionally crop to get it. Cropping like that can take a “meh” photo to “kinda interesting.”

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Not necessarily good but kind of interesting. The toy camera/cross process helps too. I feel it enhances the spontaneous nature of shooting from the hip.

I have a handful more on my Flickr account here. I need to figure out what I’m going to do with these photos again…

Cover photo from an old photo walk with Alyska way back in 2011 (just after we started dating). She’s holding my favorite Russian analog Zorki-4K.

Faceless

Subtitle: Because “headless” sounds creepy.

I like to shoot from the hip but I’m not terribly good at it. After a few interesting accidents with hip shots, I developed a framing pattern I started to like - headless people.

   <img src="_image.jpg" alt=" How many feet in a frame?  ">  How many feet in a frame?   

I’m pretty sure this is how projects go. Photog tries a thing, it doesn’t work, tries again, it doesn’t work again in the same way, Photog ignores it and tries again because Photog is thick-headed.

  <img src="_image.jpg" alt="">

Usually, I go for it in camera but I occasionally crop to get it. Cropping like that can take a “meh” photo to “kinda interesting.”

  <img src="_image.jpg" alt="">




  <img src="_image.jpg" alt="">

Not necessarily good but kind of interesting. The toy camera/cross process helps too. I feel it enhances the spontaneous nature of shooting from the hip.

I have a handful more on my Flickr account here. I need to figure out what I’m going to do with these photos again…

Cover photo from an old photo walk with Alyska way back in 2011 (just after we started dating). She’s holding my favorite Russian analog Zorki-4K.