Started working on a flameworking piece today. First up is a bunch of leaves, going autumnal ๐
It lost its body ridges bc I got it too hot, but heyโฆ ugly pumpkin!
All of my forms of artistic expression require weird equipment and a location outside of an apartment ๐ฅฒ
It kinda sucks and Iโm so seriously tempted to move out of the city a bit to have a garage to build a small flameworking studio in ๐ญ
I learnt to make glass pumpkins today! ๐
Iโm spending today migrating some things from plain old HTTP+JSON to grpc/connect-rpc and I forgot how much I kinda love grpc tooling when working with Go (and you keep a โgood enoughโ JSON API with connect too)
My home dev+scan setup for color film seems to work ๐
Iโve been avoiding shooting film this year after being unhappy with my โdefaultโ lab, so itโs nice that I can have the control that I want now.
This isnโt a good photo, but hey! I pulled it out of the film soup! And it isnโt weird! ๐ท๐
Self developing color film for the first time is highlighting a very annoying fact: Removing dust from color images is so much more work than from black and white (where it’s easy in post). Spending a lot of time with a cloth and isopropanol right now ๐ญ
Upgraded my home development setup, I no longer need to do manual inversions or temp compensation ๐
I’m a sucker for a sunset, especially when you get a sky this pretty.
A rare self portrait
Gone fishing ๐ธ
Really gonna miss the PNW when I leave tomorrow - Brandenburg nominally has a bunch of forest areas, but the flatness and lack of natural features mean they get old pretty quick.
You can’t always pick your conditions when doing landscape photography, and this was a difficult scene to pull contrast between mountain tops and the sky from, but I like the way it kinda works in b/w. ๐ธ
Yesterday a friend took me to Mt Rainier for the first time and I think I have a new favourite place on earth. I still need to give this photo a bit more of a Lr pass, but it’s one I’m excited about because it involved going over the water on a fallen tree “bridge” ๐ ๐ธ
Yesterday I got to watch some glassblowing up close and it was incredible (and Iโve now booked an introductory class ๐) ๐ธ
We didn’t get to see the aurora at its peak on Friday bc of the clouds (and I was too sick to go far enough to escape them), but we got to briefly see the aurora on Saturday <3 ๐ธ
Spring is finally here ๐๐ท
๐ท Moody Friend.
The term “Content Creator” really needs to die before AI finishes killing the arts - people devaluing themselves and their work by reducing it to “content” to be mindlessly consumed is what lets arbitrarily generated mediocrity win ๐ญ
I do love to make unexpected friends on winter walks โ๏ธ๐ฟ๏ธ๐ท
I’ve been posting too many sunset photos (I’m not that sorry) - but I’m really tempted to make some wallpapers out of this.
Mainland Spain, Gibraltar, and Ceuta in a single shot on a clear day is pretty beautiful tbqh.
Marbella, December 2023.
A Christmas Orange
Marbella, December 2023 - Kodak Gold 200.
more film from Andalusia - sunsets and mountains (also I think my first roll of Kodak Gold in 120).
I got film back from my fav lab today… and apparently I need to do some light seal replacements (truly the joy of shooting film)
I quite like this photo though - from a rest stop as we were leaving Marbella to drive to Seville, a lovely view over the town of Ojรฉn.
monkeying around. ๐๐ธ.
Gibraltar, Dec 2023.