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Archive for June 25th, 2009

Mymountaintrail 1.0

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Okay, I can live with this for now.  Using a Firefox plugin called Firebug, I have been able to figure out how to change most of the colors in this Worpress theme.  I wanted to darken most of the graphics so that the photos will stand out more, and I have been able to do that.  There may still be some text or graphics that don’t quite look right, but I will try to fix that going forward.  Feel free to leave me any feedback (positive or negative) about the new site and its look and usage.

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This photo is from my ride in to work on Monday.  It is a composite of several photos taken with my 45-year-old Yashica Minister-D camera. 

Back in May I misplaced the camera while packing for our vacation trip to Utah.  At the time I was debating what cameras to take with us — film (which ones?), digital (which ones!?), pen and ink…  I finally settled on my choices, but at the last minute I threw the Minister-D and GSN in the center console of the truck.  They both had film in them and I guess I figured I would finish out the rolls w/ snapshots. 

Anyway, the time was so busy I kind of forgot that I put the cameras in the truck.  I ended up using the digital cameras and Hasselblad for the trip.  When I got back home I went looking for the two Yashicas (thinking I had left them at home) and couldn’t find them.  I remembered the camera selection process before leaving on the trip and figured I must have actually brought the cameras with me and put them in some safe place in the camper.  After searching, no dice.  Then I searched the rest of the truck and Jeep.  Nope.  The garage (did I store them away???), no joy.  I finally gave up in frustration, figuring they would show up some day.

Well, that day was Sunday.  I happened to look in the truck console for some bottled water while working on the acacia forest, and there were the two cameras!  I am sure I looked in the cosole during my search, but somehow I missed them.  I guess.  I don’t know, but at least I found them.

So this week I finished out the film in each camera.  The above picture is stitched together from scans of 7 different photos.  The actual combined scan is quite large, and pretty okay quality for such an inexpensive camera.  And it’s hard to beat the retro fun.