We did film developing last week, so let’s tackle the next step: making a print from the negatives we now have (right?)
Making a print is slightly more involved, but not significantly, though it has a greater investment in equipment, prep, and space. The big thing is, you need an actual darkroom now, but making one isn’t all that hard.
Darkroom. You will need space for
… yark in the yard?
A few days ago, The Girlfriend pointed out this curious mound of… something… in the grass not 7 meters from the window to Deep 13. Initially, I said, “Bear shit,” based on what appeared to be berry seeds, then looked closer and suspected it was an old patch of fungus that was fading away, but I wasn’t sure of that. Later on, I put on some rubber
The video sorting continues apace – still a lot to go, but much more than that done. Still, we need another post, so we’ll check in on the new froglets appearing around Walkabout Estates now.
There have been a couple on the morning glories outside Deep 13 recently, so naturally I chose the smallest.
That’s enough for scale, right? We all know how big morning glory
I mean, it’s been three days without a post – what am I breaking from? From sorting video clips, of which I got too far behind on. I am doing what I should be doing with the still photos, which is adding details to a spreadsheet as I go – species, behavior, location, et cetera. It’s virtually necessary with the videos since there is no adequate thumbnail
The uploads for August still won’t compete with July (144) and March (126) of this year, but they will set a record for August uploads within the ol’ blogarooty, and to be honest, I have plenty of images to put up – I’m just remaining thematic right now, and saving some for a slower day. So what we have here are images from three sessions chasing Lepidoptera
One of the things that I urge any serious, or even remotely serious, photographer to try is film developing. It’s a lot easier than it seems, takes minimal equipment, and is immensely gratifying. Except, there’s a caveat to all that, or perhaps several. Monochrome negative (print) developing is easy color negative is three times as involved, and color positive
Really and for true, it’s the last day of the month – I checked three times. I spent almost as much time on that as I did trying to render those characters in the title. Which is much more than I spent shooting abstract images this month, a time period best defined as, “almost nothing,” so we’re going with images from last month that are also sorting finds. Such as:
I really, really wonder* who comes up with these holidays. I mean, seriously – this one is far too much of a FaceBlerk kind of thing, and I don’t blame anyone for ignoring it, because it accomplishes nothing**. That said, I’m in the rare position to address/celebrate it, so we’ll grudgingly recognize What Were You Doing A Decade Ago? Because exactly a decade
We had that tiny fragment of a solar eclipse two weeks ago, and true to form (in this case, orbital mechanics, though what they’re doing up there is anyone’s guess,) about ten hours ago we had a partial lunar eclipse. The weather forecast had called for rain developing in the evening and continuing
Just (finally) got through a major sorting session, so naturally it’s time for the found images that I should have featured back when I obtained them. We have a theme for some of these, only obvious because I was going through so many images at once.
Back when doing the green heron (Butorides virescens) sessions, I snagged it peering past a lichen-covered branch, through
