This entry features 112 jpeg containers. With this scope in mind I feel responsible for introducing what you are about to experience but I find myself without words. It is a perpetuating comedy, then. I photograph for many reasons but one of them is the excellence it represents in the conundrum of self-expression, reflection and reciprocation. Where I stumble, photography grounds me. And, by the way, I love yours too. I think other bloggers should comment so that I can follow the links back to your internet venues. Now, then.
There is a film named Kodak HD 400. I shot a roll of it in my Nickelodeon Photoblaster.
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Interestingly enough, the results from this expired roll that has been in my fridge (a number of fridges, really) for years are rather delicious.
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Brother Entropy surprised us all in Vancouver with the weather throughout September but in October it began to rain at last. Quite convincingly I might add.
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This cat convinced a number of individuals that being in a salad bowl on the floor really is not so bad.
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Limits tested, but not met.
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Quite content to be back on the floor again. I guess it is really nice to have a camera around for these situations.
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Add another point in my decisive moment column.
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I love that the film recorded the nature of the sky to some degree, polluted by the light of the city landscape.
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I missed several cute/intimate moments between these two but I still wanted them anyway so I had to take them.
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We were all in attendance to see a guy in a place.
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Pretty sure that was 1/2.
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Apparently that is what I looked like, proudly demonstrating my Nickelodeon Photoblaster back from the shop in tip-top shape.
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Discovering mirrors is a bit of a strength, I would say.
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Guy outside of a place.
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Hm, and snapping to finish the roll off the next day. That place burned down on November 12th. That place where I spent so many days, taking oh, okay, maybe one more cup of coffee. Where the food always hit the spot. Where I truly loved the staff. Where.. I don’t know where to go any more.
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Good thing, then, that we went inside that day. I guess this was the second to last time I was there. Kodak Tri-X.
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I am going to weave in a roll of NPZ here and there and intend that I am slotting it in pseudo-chronologically. Again, different cameras and simultaneous rolls, so who really knows.
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Kidnap Kids at Goonies.
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Nadja at the Rickshaw.
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They were great.
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lol
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I failed exposing that one, oops, was in a hurried commute. It is almost what I was going for though, to be fair.
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That was Mono at the Biltmore, October 6. I only made that one shot on film. Actually, maybe I should include a few of the digital frames I made there…
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Here’s Beard wondering if he’ll regret that face. Though he was happy to send me off with the 5d.
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So Randy and I hopped in a cab.
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The stage was set when we arrived.
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The show was sensational, profoundly sensational.
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To celebrate we visited 7-11.
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On October 9th, 2009 the Centaur upper stage of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite impacted the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon at a velocity of 10,000 km/h. I made a photograph for posterity.
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We talked about something cool. Can’t remember what it was. Good story, right?
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Waiting to get somewhere.![FRM00584 FRM00584](https://witness.affectuoso.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FRM00584-415x271.jpg)
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Quaint. It is always good to get involved with the community in pro-active ways.
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Or to just sit and study.
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Or sit and sip, discuss.
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I am a little rusty.
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So, something else that happened in October was my 10 year high school reunion, yep.
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Eventually the photographers of the class converged a bit. Everybody loves to handle the Nickelodeon Photoblaster.
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It was a weird event. Oh, no, not the reunion. Just the fact that someone almost managed to pull focus here.
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That hat fell from the balcony above where a wedding reception was taking place. The hat was being used as a prop for photographs, unfortunately I ended up wearing it for a while before realizing what it looked like on me. Fortunately, it was legal for us all to drink this time we got together, and drinking definitely did occur.
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I played with the photographer above who had by that time realized I was in possession of her hat. I was working my way up the stairs to deliver it back to her when I was intercepted by a friendly dude, the brother of the groom perhaps, who had come to retrieve the hat. I didn’t get any farther than that, which I regretted. I wanted to say thanks for playing with me.
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Then it was time to celebrate a birthday.
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And have a bit of a jam. I think Weston is going to be the family drummer.
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That composition grows on me every time, more than last time. ;]
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We drove to the supermarket. Careful not to get a parking ticket.
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A portrait of a person; a portrait of quality time.
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Completing the circle of life, queuing to pay. On the internet, at the cashier, on the internet.
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Hallowe’en was approaching, and the last day at my old apartment. Still I had not found a new place to live.
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Our Town had become a fairly regular spot to regroup.
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And the packing was underway. I was fortunate to have amazing help from amazing friends. And a place to live was found.
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As my apartment emptied I paused to make one last image in that place.
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I moved on October 31st. The weather was incredible, as was the help I received. Hi, mom.
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Later we returned to Command HQ and launched Operation: Destroy Brain Cells.
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Other things also happened that night, as they usually do.
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Although I dawned the horse to this party, the hot dog guy found an appreciation for my style. We traded hats and I wore his zombie Barack Obama mask which worked out nicely because I was dressed formally and it was possible to shoot through the eye holes in the Obama mask, unlike through the horses mouth.
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Salacious!
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November 1st deserved going out for breakfast.
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R.I.P. Idle Thumbs <3 (that was being out for breakfast another day in fact). I was boycotting the price of razors for a bit. :/
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We are at the Elbow Room.
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The painting walls occurred. The consumption of Stiegl occured, occurs yet.
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Leica eyes. You know’em or you don’t.
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You’d think I might be near Our Town again.
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Might be right…
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It is happening on all sides of me.
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Oh, this is unique. I brought to a show a flash device for my camera, then I used it.
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I am impressed you’ve got this far, honestly.
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But do not worry, we are almost there.
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OK.
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I think we’re good.