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Traveling with Film

Flying with film can be daunting. Usually it’s busy, you are trying to handle your luggage, where to go, what line to stand in and make sure you take your shoes off…. Or is it leave them on now? I can never remember. Nonetheless, there is a lot to do in the modern airport. Avoid…

Panning for Monochrome Gold – Kentmere Pan 200 test

In 2025, a company releasing new film should get our attention. Harman, the makers of Ilford film stocks, run a budget line under the name of Kentmere. For year, their pan 400 has been popular for home developers and bulk loaders. For the value, these films have performed very well compared to their big brothers…

5 Photos from the OBX

The outer banks is a special place that doesn’t feel natural. Leaving Raleigh, you can get to the coast in roughly two hours. You are met with the sound, but then you take a series of bridges to arrive in the actual outer banks. This is a sliver of sand on the ocean side of…

Lessons learned from logging off

Each year I get this overwhelming urge to log off accounts online and take a break from the scrolling and noise. This past time, I challenged myself to go longer and see if I could hit a year. There is a delicate balance between consumption and creation. Not content creation as this is intended to…

Sweet Heat Lightning

5 minutes at dusk and it is gone. If you didn’t look outside, you would have never known anything was different from a normal night. The beauty of this time of year is the length of light. Even near 10pm, you still get a small glow in the sky. Mix in some heat and humidity,…

A Common Thread – Scooters

Being in Europe, everything feels broken in and settled. Like it has always been there and will be. Think of it like when you were a kid and picked up your parents ball glove they’ve had since they were little. It is that feeling of quality mixed in with history that makes it just feel…

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