Thursday, December 7, 2023

Headed South

Headed South for the holidays. Yesterday, today and tomorrow were and will be long travel days.Drove through a blizzard in PA this morning. Just awful conditions on I-81; blowing snow, white out and slippery road conditions. Trucks roared by me (I was following the reduced speed limit warnings) as if it were a sunny day and I was holding them up. Passed numerous cars off the road. What a difference 400 miles further South makes. In NC it is 57F and sunny. My kind of weather.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

On A Walk

Yesterday the weather finally broke enough to be able to take a walk. I woke up to a light coating of snow on the lawn but the temperature moderate later in the morning and it all went away with the rain that followed. Reports from friends in NH noted 5-8" of wet heavy snow.

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Keep forgetting

I keep forgetting to make an entry here. Sheesh! Must be that holiday time of year. I have been focussing so hard on trying to, no- willing, to make the $25 Minolta XD5 35mm eBay film camera work, that I have done so at the expense of everything else. But it has paid off. I finally figured out that it will work and I can get acceptable results developing the film so that I can take it with me on my trip south for Christmas. I guess I should have read all the manuals at the beginning, but then I am a visual, trial and error kind of guy.

Friday, December 1, 2023

Totally Absent

Have neglected posting lately. Been focusing on learning how to use a new camera. The first roll I shot with my new to me Minolta XD5 was utter failure. The film didn't stay attached on the take-up reel so I spent 3 hours shooting photos that would never be. All that time and chemistry wasted. Yesterday I repeated the process shooting and developing another roll. Here is one picture from that roll.