I posted a little while back (10/31) about a Fujifilm event at @schillerscamera. Fun day, and thanks to Hayden @fujiworthy for running the session! That post had some examples of in-camera double exposures, which was an interesting experiment for me. We also, in the session, talked about motion blur by dragging or rotating the camera. I've actually done some motion blur through the years, although not frequently.
Here's a couple of my experiments in blur, from the session:
On the 1st Thursday of October 2026, here's a look back at albums released 50 years ago this month. Maybe I'll make it an ongoing series. My source is The Internet. Ah, November 1976... Fall semester of my sophomore year of high school. Just a few months after I got my driver's license. Good times.
Starting with the albums I own, in one way shape or form. With my rating (5 point scale).
Today is voting day, and yes, I voted. But, I'm not really a "sticker person", so the sticker got stuck to mt car's light switch. Still counts, right?
Voting is a right, and an important one. BUT, it is also every voter's responsibility to educate themselves on the candidates and the issues. At least a little. IMHO, that is.
An interesting (I hope) aside. Last presidential election (2024), for the first time, we did the early voting thing: went down to the courthouse, where we waited well over an hour. Today, we continued our normal practice of voting on election day. We were in and out in no more that 5 minutes, which has been the norm for us. Plus our polling close is much closer to our home than the courthouse. Sometimes the old ways are best.
So, the era of targeted marketing has gone off the tracks. Over the past few days, I've been getting ads on Youtube for San Fransico political issues. Seems pretty odd, since I live about 1,800 miles (straight line) from SF. Haven't been there in at least 25 years.
Meanwhile on Facebook, I've been getting flooded with ads for women's bras, and for custom scooter seat covers. There's no reason for anybody to think that I'd have any interest in either product.
Of course, I still get loads of targeted ads that at least make some sense. But those are just silly.
Not quite 2 weeks ago, I posted a short photo essay to Youtube. This one is from a hike at Ellis Island in West Alton, IL, adjacent to Audubon Center at Riverlands.
Not too much traffic so far, but maybe that'll change. I'd sure appreciate it if y'all check it out, maybe leave a like or comment!
Some experiments with in-camera mulit-exposure, after a Fujifilm event at @schillerscamera. Fun day, and thanks to Hayden @fujiworthy for running the session! Not my normal "thing", but very interesting all the same. Something I need to play with some more, these are just from the hands-on part of the session.
It is getting pretty late in the season, but we still have Hummingbirds around. This was actually taken 9/29, but the point is the same. Soon they'll be gone until spring....
My brother, my (paternal) Grandfather and Me. Taken not long after my G-parents retired to Roanoke, VA. This is scanned from a very faded 3x5 print, which I had ChatGPT clean up. It (Chat GPT) did too good a job, I actually asked it to dial it back a bit, so it didn't look like it was a brand new photo. This version captures the spirit of the original (I hope).
Well, I didn't take this photo... but it was my camera, and that is me. So, close enough. Pretty sure this was Spring 1981, finishing up Junior year. That's my university apartment.
Man, I loved that chair. It was on old, well broken-in chair from home that I had claimed when the parents replaced it. Somewhere along the way my mother made a slip cover for it. I have no recollection as to how it made it from home to my school apartment. But there it is.
This is proof that I did study in school, thought the beer cans hint at the other side of the story. Good times, but I wouldn't want to do it all over.
