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Minimalist Packing: 3 Essential Laws for Road Trip Success
When it comes to total weight on everything you’ve packed for a road trip it can be death by 1000 cuts. What seemed like a series of rational choices has now become an overstuffed and cumbersome set of bags. Each time I take a road trip I find myself regretting some of the things I’ve Continue Reading
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Navigating Unforeseen Challenges Before Your Road Trip
As of this post date, I am thirteen days out from leaving Calgary on my cross-Canada road trip. What an appropriate number for this topic. Dealing with setbacks or in other words rolling with the bad luck of planning for a road trip. While my experiences are pretty unique to me perhaps you’ll find some Continue Reading
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The Super Accurate Darkroom in Spider-Man 2 For the PS5
I broke the bank and got Spider-Man 2 on launch day when I said I wouldn’t, maybe I saw one too many clips on YouTube but none the less I pulled out the ‘ol Master Card and when I got home spent the next few days glued to the set. Early on in the game, Continue Reading
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Capturing the Beauty of Alberta’s Grain Elevators 2025
I’ve been working on capturing every grain elevator I can find here in Alberta fore the past few years now. I’m getting close to completing my project, with only about a dozen left to shoot now. The trip journal below doubles as a dress rehearsal for another project. You can learn about what I mean Continue Reading
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Why a Dress Rehearsal is Crucial for Your Trip
At the time of this writing, I am T-Minus thirty-nine days until I leave on a sixty-day road trip across Canada and back. From Calgary, Alberta to St. John’s, Newfoundland and so much in between. The road trip prep has been extensive. Going from zero to sixty as it were, is quite the leap. Especially Continue Reading
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A Quick Film Developer From 1950: Ethol 90
While some of you love the process of developing your own negatives, I’ve found it boring sometimes. Some of the developers out there take a long time. So, when I came across a seventy-four year old article talking about a 90 second quick film developer in production, I was intrigued. Then, when I went to Continue Reading
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Popular Photography’s First Issue
Time Capsules I love looking at old magazines. They feel like little time capsules, as they are a mix of pop culture and bite sized info that publications thought the general public wanted at any given time. I also find it fascinating what used to be considered acceptable and seeing the wax and wane of Continue Reading
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Is Stop Bath Necessary? The Final Answer
When it comes to film developing, it seems like everyone has their own way of doing it. Especially when it comes to some very specific techniques. Almost nothing is more controversial than the debate of stop bath vs water. Once, on a forum, I asked people how they used photo flo, and I must have Continue Reading
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Photography In the 1990s: Resources From 1997
Every so often, while I am indexing photography’s historical materials, I come across something I have to stop and smile at, in this case: a list of websites about photography in the 1990s. This was an interesting time because like this, much of the time you’d get a list of sites like this on paper. Continue Reading
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The History of Minolta: 1989
1989 was an exciting year in photography. Autofocus SLRs were exploding. Canon and Nikon were staking their claim with their respective systems, but one company was already working on their second generation of these revolutionary automated wonders: Minolta. They changed everything with their Maxxum system in 1985 and would hope to do it again with Continue Reading
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