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If not for the earbud, mp3's, and piercing...

The dune grasses of Lake Superior as seen through the Lensbaby...

The model is the upright bass player for the Minneapolis band Hot Rod Hearse.

Time-Zero film
SX-70

In honor of my friend Flo.  We met when I was pregnant with my 22 year old son.  May she rest in peace.



Holga
Kodakcolor VR 100 (expired in 8-1986)

it lasted for only one afternoon...



hasselblad 500 c/m with neopan 400 (shot at iso 800)

but sometimes you can.  i've been getting some pretty delicious colors out of artistic time-zero.  (thanks for the blue transparency sheets, kevin.)  i'll be posting the rest of the shot is my photoblog later today.

here's my favorite out of my recent experiments.  trace of a past life.


still photographing the orchids...  opalescence.


opalescence, 2.

I would rather forget the night that I took this photograph, though it remains forever in my mind. We had to do a major network cutover one Thursday night, and a winter storm began. It was around the time that everyone was patching for the new daylight savings time changes, and a fellow who was working for the ISP hit my car that evening in the parking lot. We worked until probably three in the morning.

The Diana camera can be a mysterious camera.  I think this photo shows how much that is true.  These chairs have been left abandoned on this rocky beach since I have been visiting it, which is going on three years now.  Silent companions...

It was a disappointment to learn that uber is on its way out.  Things were beginning to come together.  Software was being tweaked at user suggestion.  Little communities were popping up.  Something was finally starting to happen there, but now it's all more or less gone.  Will be gone.  Jobs have been lost.  Etc.  The website will go inactive on Monday.

More trivial but still true... lots of my pictures reside on uber hosts!  Many of the things I posted here are linked back to uber, in fact.  What a morass of dependencies I've created.  I need to decide on a domain name, which I should have done already with all of Kevin's amazing and awesome suggestions, so that I can locate my files in one spot over which I have control. 

Anyway... we recently journeyed Up North to Duluth, MN.  There was some darn pretty light in a café & bakery called Amazing Grace.  This woman seems obliviously happy in the warmth of the light and in the company of her friend.


The intimate atmosphere of a small café can make anything seem romantic... even a conversation on a cell phone.


Here is one of my two favorite models.  The warm light and rich colors of her surroundings do her justice.

Newly listed at my Etsy Shop


untitled portrait
8"x12" print on Kodak Endura professional paper (negative scanned and printed from digital file)




Painted Light
5"x7" enlargement of a Time-Zero polaroid

From a magical late spring evening on Lake Superior...  Polaroid 669 with Daylab Pinhole.  The spots are from having dropped the Polaroid in the sand.

Today is my grandmother's birthday.  Tomorrow will be my grandmother's and grandfather's wedding anniversary, as they eloped the day after her 18th birthday.  The negative for this portrait was heat damaged.  Too bad... as they are both deceased and as I'd like to have this portrait in its original form as a keepsake.  Also, this photo is likely from old Agfa film, which is also gone.  I loved the pretty colors even back then before I cared about film types or even considered having an interest in photography.  I really miss my grandparents... but especially my grandmother.

Ellie and Carl

We always stop at Betty's Pies in Two Harbors, MN when we go up to the North Shore.  The light in that diner is pretty...  and is beautifully translated by Portra 400 VC.

the evening light on lake superior...
portra vc
and an nd filter