STOP. Get up. Stretch. Get a Coffee (or a beer, depending on when you happen upon this post). Come back. This is a loooooong one. It’s worth it though.
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Due to a series of events, neither fortunate nor un, the year two thousand and thirteen went by without a blip on the blog-radar. According to rule S4L616 every photo-related site MUST have a year-end review, unless certain waivers were submitted, or with a signed note from ones parents.
Such events are beyond the scope of this post, so you must feel satisfied knowing that such reasons exist.
So here are my favorite photos of my family, from 2013 and 2014, in no particular order. Enjoy!
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It’s scary. Seeing all these images, knowing that all this (and more) must have happened at some point in the last two years. I mean thank G-d it’s wonderful, and I’m happy. With my family, my life, but I just wish things would slow down a bit. All this life doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There is always work that I’m in middle of, haven’t started yet, or am just finished. There are dishes to wash, repairs to be done, food to be made, grains to soak, filters to clean. As hard as it is to cram all of the to-do list in one day, on top of that there are a gaggle of kids living life. Crying, laughing, getting muddy, building ladders and forts and swords. Learning stuff, destroying stuff. Growing, maturing, faltering. And so badly do I want to remember all that. Sometimes I do. Most of the time I don’t. All the memories join their brethren, blurring together in some hairy homogenous mass of fuzziness.
Unless I document them.
Then I, like Professor Dumbledore and his Pensieve , can reach down and pluck out a memory, as clear as if it were just deposited.
And that’s why I run around with my cameras, frantically making images. I’m scared of the memories slowly fading away, melting in the grayness of my mind.
Because I think it’s funny, weird, odd, and a bit scary how many cameras I go through, I’ll list all of the gearI’ve used for these photos:
Nikon F3, F4, F100. 20mm, 28mm f/2, 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 50mm f/1.4, Zeiss 50mm f/1.4
Leica M2, M3, Zeiss Ikon, Hexar RF. Voigtlander 28mm f/2, 35mm f/1.2, Leica 50mm f/2
Hasselblad Xpan, 45mm
Mamiya C330, 80mm
Rolleiflex 6003, 6008, Zeiss 50mm f/4, Zeiss 80mm f/2.8
Pentax 67, 105mm f/2.4
Hasselblad 500 c/m, 201f, 50mm 2.8, 60mm f/3.5, 110mm f/2
Mamiya 6, 50mm, 75mm, 150mm
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm L/A, 110mm f/2.8
Rolleiflex SL66, 50mm, 80mm, Schneider 12.5cm f/2
Speed Graphic
Polaroid Land Cameras
Ricoh Gr1V, Olympus Stylus Epic, other random point and shoots.
Films used. Oh man. Kodak TriX, PlusX, gold 200, 400, portra 160, 400, 800, 160NC, 400NC, 160VC, 400VC, 400UC. Fuji 160s 400h, 800z, fp100c, fp3000b. Ilford HP5, Delta 400, Delta 3200
And that’s that.