Working again with film and spending time in the darkroom has been a joy. At least when I get there. Still have a lot of mental inertia to overcome to push myself to the basement and heat up the darkroom. Now I just have to post some of the results — if only occasionally.

I visit your blog looking for new work. Something that sticks in my mind is the subtitle, “a late stage photoblog.” On bad days that sounds kind of ominous.

Don’t do that on my account! I wish I knew more and most of your readers do!

Thanks for the kind words. There’s a lot of yadda, yadda in photography that gets in the way. I’ll try and keep it all to a minimum and focus on the pictures!

My field camera is for a specific project. One that I’m am slow to engage but will shortly. It has a lot of life in it. Likely more than I have in me.

The F3 HP I have now is in excellent condition. Fingers crossed than it functions reliably for a few years. Repairs to these old cameras are hard to come by since no one makes parts anymore. You can get them fixed but as you say it’s expensive.

Kodachrome. I used to shoot tons of that. Mostly Kodachrome 64 but sometimes 200 and rarely 25. For personal work though, it has always been black and white.

Lily blushed when I told her she’s lovely!

Our two Belgian Sheepdogs are thinkers Dom. They are always hanging around with those introspective looks!

I remember sealing up the bathroom at my parents house in high school. Nice to have a real darkroom now.

Phone cameras are pretty amazing tools these days. I always marvel at the photography on the Fuzzygalore.com site. She uses an iPhone.

The Nikon F3 does a good job dampening the mirror but 1/15th is the slowest I can hand hold. I can go slowed with a digital camera with image stabilization. And you can always jack up the ISO. Neither an option with the F3.

Four years ago. Kim told me not to do it. She was right. I sold the M6 body and two Leica lenses for around $2000.00. It will cost me $6200.00 to buy them back. Ugh.