It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmas

It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmas

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Gawd bless the lovely ninaduckling. She took pity on me when my yousmellofwee (it's a long story) secret santa never arrived, and fixed it for me to have Christmas in February. Yay!

Passover Matzo Bird

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Have a nice passover
This is the final outcome. See the process

my old canon

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at easter lunch on sunday, my parents handed me the first remotely fancy camera that i ever owned, a canon ftb, manufactured in 1972. the lens is a 50 f/1.8. it still works flawlessly.

basically in high school i just invented a bunch of excuses to take pictures of the dog, a lazy beagle named missy, short for miscellaneous, because she was my most willing subject.

including the camera, though, the bag of my photographic past contained:
- incredibly pretentious (weird prism thing; blue; brown) and sometimes useful (red, for b&w infrared film) filters
- a filter mount for some bizarre square filter system that i was somehow enamored with in 1996
- a vivitar flash manufactured in 1961
- a card that implored people who had found the bag to call my parents' house, ending in a very swashy scripty "thanx!". i had no idea that i ever wrote "thanx" in my entire life. i would like to publicly apologize for this egregious fault.
- manuals for everything. why did i keep these? clearly i knew how to work the damn camera.

but that's not all! the useful things that the bag contained:
- a roll of shot tri-x film, pictured, ca. 1999-2000
- a roll of film, probably also tri-x, that i ostensibly wound towards the end of high school, also pictured
- thirteen other rolls of heinously expired film, including color positives, C-41 process black and white, and (gloriously, blessedly) ilford delta 400 pro.

meanwhile, the special lady found her own stash of ridiculously expired film:
- a 120 portra 125asa
- two 120 delta 400(!!!)
- a 35mm hp5 400 that's been donated to me for The Cause
- a full-blown 100' canister of expired-as-hell hasn't-been-produced-for-years agfa 400 film, which will handily produce several 36exp rolls if i can find a way to swap it into a changing bag or film roller. (does anybody have either?)

so here is what is going to happen. i took the tri-x to central camera and will post a bunch of embarassing shots of what is likely missy here. every month from now on, i'm going to shoot a roll on the ftb, process it, scan the negatives, and post ultra-hi-res shots of the results here.

which brings me to this: does anybody have access to a really, really good negative scanner that i can use once a month?

Stationary Swap Rec'd

Image by Julie K in Taiwan
I received this great collection of stationary stuff from Denise www.flickr.com/photos/warmnfuzzy/

Love the Easter Egg Plush!

Thank you so much!

Thinking of you

Image by cathy.fong
Made another card again today!
wew..im just so in love with DT's cards. i wish i had enough time to make one card inspired from each designer. I have my own favourite from each of them. in fact... lots of favourites. hehe

This clean and simple card is inspired by my friend Elizabet's mini easter tags here :
www.flickr.com/photos/elizabethallan-art/5609106357/in/ph...
Don't you just love the colour she use?
details blogged here :
allbycathyfong.blogspot.com/2011/05/inspired-by-lovely-co...