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Ok- the storage locker is now assembled, and the studio is being maintained to a reasonable semblance of cleanliness (a bit challenging when your studiomates are a pair of hippies and a painter/3-d installation artist). It looks way more professional now, and I think the other guys will in the long term appreciate the improvement when they can raise their billable rate for the space, even though they were grumbling about not needing the storage locker (if you saw the place before, you'd understand ...

i guess this note is for shameless self promotion.

i have had an account / space over on imagekind.com.
yeah, i know what kind of site it is, and i normally wouldn't mention it here
but ... i am donating all the proceeds from sales of my photography
to people in japan.

last year i had 30-40 things for sale on ebay and to be honest
it is less of a hassle selling my work through imagekind than it is on ebay.

if you like the ...

I've been busy working away at getting the new studio set up. Added an INKA studio mono stand to the arsenal for shooting large subjects and/or working with the 14x17. Rolled the Century Master portrait camera out yesterday to shoot some still life stuff for a print exchange. I'm working on getting some classes on the calendar to take advantage of the studio space as a teaching space again. Watch for announcements about an intro to studio lighting class, a photographing the male nude class, and ...

well, i bought a film slitter to cut down 35mm film
seeing i have a bunch of it that was intended to be shot by my 110 camera.
i shot a bunch of 110 last weekend
and pulled the cn film out of it in the dark on sunday, and its ready for me to process ...

THEN
i too a utility knife and cut the seams to remove the lid so i could familiarize myself with the whole
deal (murray kelly here has a great image set showing the whole deal thanks murray ! ) ...

yesterday was wednesday.
it was cold and snowy.
the snow came down light and steady for hours
and then it stopped.
the sun came out and warmed the road,
it gave me a chance to shovel and see my breath.
later after the kids got home they did their homework.
it wasn't snowing, it was cold and grey.
i rolled some more paper, this time ilford and taped it tight on itself
and then i trimmed a 5x7 sheet and stuck it in the back of the 3A. ...

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