Yes, it has been a while since I posted here. That isn’t to say I haven’t been snapping anything, because I definitely have been taking pictures. It’s just that I started to lose sight of the value of keeping a blog after I decided to check out Flickr.com. Flickr.com is a great site and offers a lot of cool features, but a blog is better for telling a story. I’ve also been busy as hell trying to balance the therapy business along with an anatomy and photography class. Both classes demand a great deal of time outside the classroom – anatomy due to the amount of information that needs to be processed and photography due to the work required with the camera.
In the time since my last post, I had to purchase a new scanner to scan some prints from our cruise this past summer. The scanner (Epson Perfection 4490 Photo) comes with a negative scanner. After figuring out how to use it, I found myself scanning every negative in our possession over the decade spanning my marriage up until our first digital camera purchase. So far I have scanned over 900 negatives and still have a whole lot to do. I have found some gems in there… more than likely taken by my wife, however, as before I really didn’t like handling the camera (funny how things change). The other power of this is it gives me a chance to preview my class negatives so I can decide which ones to try and print without having to print a contact sheet. I have to do a contact sheet for each roll anyway as part of the course requirements, but if I continue to shoot film, I will save time and money in paper and chemicals since I won’t have to create one.
So far, that pretty much sums things up in a nutshell. At this point I’ll go ahead and show some pictures I have taken over the past month or so. I’ve decided to leave off the information on the digital pics as it takes up more room than necessary. If you want the information, you can email me for it. As for the film pics, I don’t record the information, so I really have no idea. Some of the pictures are cut off due to layout limitations. You can view the whole picture in Flickr by clicking on the picture itself.
First, the film pics:
And the digital pictures:
Any comments are welcome as the feedback helps me grow. Enjoy.