Author: Eddy Young
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Hit and miss
The results of my film development are still hit and miss. Here are samples from yet another roll that was started in 2018 and finished just this month. I set the camera to ISO 400 for the Agfa Vista 200 film. This mistake not only caused the pictures to come out dark but also revealed…
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Not quite what I expected
The pictures from my photo walk to the local park aren’t great. But here they are anyway. I developed the film with the Bellini Foto C-41 kit yesterday and scanned the negatives as soon as they were dry. The process was a little stressful, because I had to maintain the chemicals at a precise 38â°C…
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Trying film photography again
I finally visited the park that opened near my house in 2020 amidst COVID lockdown. It is a former golf course that has been rehabilitated as a green area. I carried a Nikon FG-20 camera with an unfinished roll of film on my walk and took pictures of the trees and wild grass that have…
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A slightly more successful job
I finished the last post by describing my plan to cover the shed roof with a tarpaulin. Dissatisfied and impatient, I executed it two days later. The task was much easier than I had expected. I was well prepared, having run the procedure in my head many times, even at the beginning when I was…
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Bodged job
I put a hole in the roof of the garden shed. It happened when I was working on the shed, replacing the old felt. Distracted, I stepped on an area of rotted wood between two beams. My foot went right through it. With felt already laid on half of the roof and without any material…
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2010 FIFA World Cup
I am reminded by Facebook of my time at 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. I was there to deploy a software that my employer had sold to FIFA. The plan was for me to be in Johannesburg for five days, but technical difficulties forced me to extend my stay to two weeks. Having…
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A short trip to Bordeaux
We made a short trip to Bordeaux. On the first day and the second day, we had to shelter indoors from the heatwave. With the temperature reaching 42 degrees Celcius, walking and carrying a heavy DSLR under the harsh midday sun was going to be unpleasant. So we took our promenades in the evenings, when…
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Changing habits is hard
After using the Dvorak keyboard layout for more than 15 years, I’m returning to the QWERTY layout. The switch seems more difficult than learning to touch-type for the first time, given how arduous it feels. As I write this post, when I think of a word, my fingers immediately hit the Dvorak keys for the…
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Back from a well deserved break
After taking last week off, I resumed work today. Because I still had 26 days of leave remaining for the year and had to use all of them before it ends, I booked a week of holidays without any planning. The break from work, especially after the recent hectic weeks, was a welcome change. And…
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Just my luck
I went to the office on Wednesday for meetings and a team lunch outing—the first time I travelled into London since March 2020. While everyone was happy to see colleagues in person again, I saw no evidence of excitement. The office was too cold, too quiet, and too different to home. The pulled pork feijoada…