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The Good, The Bad And The Queen – Herculean

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I wasn’t sure it would happen, but I am all caught up on this year’s posts. They may not have been posted every seven days as I initially intended, but at least I posted 52 in a year.

This is the Lake Point Tower in Chicago shot on my Mamiya m645 with Kodak Portra 400VC . . . check out those curves.

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Franz Ferdinand – Walk Away

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Here is another photo from a morning on Cape Hatteras. The campsite we stayed at was maybe a quarter mile from the beach, so we had to walk on this boardwalk to get through the tall grasses (covered in gorgeous spiderwebs) and over the dunes. The fog was magnificent and probably was not the best thing for my cameras . . . oh well.

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Beach Fossils – Daydream

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Oh Cape Hatteras, how I love thee. I would be a very happy camper if I could jump into the ocean every day and look at the milky way from the beach every night. A few years back I went camping on Cape Hatteras for one night and swore I would go back. The stars were ridiculous, and as if they weren’t enough, there were bioluminescent plankton in the sand and water, so whenever you would step on them (or agitate them) they would light up yellow. My mind was blown.

This year I went back with a few friends in hopes to find the same amazing stars in the sky and sand (too cheesy?) and was not disappointed. Giddiness abounded. I spent as much time as possible playing in the ocean and looking at the stars and am already looking forward to next year’s trip.

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Jon Hopkins – The Low Places

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Wandering the streets of Chicago I found this wig shop where you can buy wigs on layaway. Sign me up! Sometimes you just need to have that platinum “Zury” hairdo.

Note: I saw Jon Hopkins open for Four Tet the other night. He was pretty fantastic and bouncy, which is always fun to see when watching an electronic live act (sometimes they just hide behind their nobs and there isn’t much to see). This is definitely not one of the more lively songs but I still like it.

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Liars – Scissor

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Hello good sir. Do you have any organs for sale in those coolers?

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Crystal Castles – Magic Spells

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I’ve been editing digital photos like they are going out of style, so I took a break to scan some of my recent Impossible Project Polaroids taken with my (sister’s) SX-70 camera. This little triptych is from my adventures in picking figs off my mother’s fig tree, which is exploding with deliciously beautiful fruit this year (and every year). The cardinals and the wasps love them too, so they need to be picked pretty much every day this time of year to ensure they don’t get overripe on the tree. Plans for this year’s crop include fig ice cream (made by me) and fig chutney (made by my mother). Mmm . . . I can’t wait! In the meantime I will eat them fresh.

Note: As with the rest of the photos on my blog, you can click it to see it larger.

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No tune today, just a photo . . .

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Dusty Brown – This City is Killing Me

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This is part two in my series of photos from Dinosaur Land. This set was taken with my Olympus OM-2n 35mm camera using Fuji Neopan 100 Acros black and white film. I don’t know if it’s how I am scanning the negatives or what, but I don’t think I am a fan of this film. Normally I like to scan and do some minor adjustments, but in general I like to keep the images true to the negative. Unfortunately I thought the photos taken on the Neopan 100 Acros were way too low in contrast (I like my blacks black, not ashy gray), so I did a little work on these photos to darken the blacks and create more of a range. So here they are . . . more dinosaurs.

P.S. If you like this Dusty Brown track, you can download the EP for free on the ISO50 blog (and if you are nice you will make a wee donation).

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Modeselektor – Edgar

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Back in the day (166 million years ago . . . or a couple thousand if you believe in this) this would have been my last photo ever, as I would have been very quickly consumed by this dinosaur that strongly resembles Dr. Finkelstein. Lucky for me it’s 2010 and I can safely get this close to a dinosaur without being eaten.

A little over a week ago “Hoi” and I went on an adventure to Dinosaur Land to take some photos and see if we could make it through alive. I can’t believe I have been in the DC area as long as I have and never knew that this 40+ year old fiberglass menagerie existed; I love places like this.

I brought my Mamiya m645 (medium format color film) and my Olympus OM-2n (35mm black and white film) and so far have only had the color photos developed. These are a few of my favorites from that roll.

“Hoi” also managed to catch me looking a bit like a dinosaur.

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Beach Fossils – Youth

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Here are two more photos from my experiments with the Fade to Black film from The Impossible Project. Unlike the last two Fade to Black polaroids I posted, I stopped the development on these two photos of peonies around 3-5 minutes after I shot them (a week apart). The first photo was shot inside and the second was shot outside. After I finish this set of Fade to Black film, I am going to see if there is anything I can do about the rollers that are leaving the stripes across the photos.