Phew, this has been a busy last few days! Sunday I attended a really cool event at the local BMX track and got a couple good photos. Then Michelle and I jumped into the car and headed south to Sacramento for two nights of alone time. While down there I got flipped off once and mean-mugged by a gangsta wannabe in his 300M with chrome fool! Good times. We also spent a few hours at Ikea and brought some organizational items home. Upon our return to Redding, I immediately began assembling shelving units and hunting screws that little Daniel wandered off with. After much grunting, sweating and hammering the Swedish furniture was completed and it was already time for a birthday party for Lyn. I'm worn out just from writing all that! It was a lot of fun and I would do it again in a heartbeat, bad Sacramento drivers and all.
On the photography side, I didn't take as many photos in Sac town as I should have. I was thinking about bringing a Mamiya down, but didn't really want to lug around a 6 pound camera plus tripod, plus the Canon for metering with out a clear idea of what I wanted to shoot.
In short, it stayed home.
Since receiving the two medium format cameras I have run a roll of film through each, but only developed a roll from one. The results are fantastic, meaning no light leaks or major problems with negatives. As for actual artistic value of the negatives, well, there is room for improvement!
It was a lot of fun to process film again. Once the chemicals were mixed and in storage containers it was really simple to knock it out at home. In fact, I may process another couple rolls today.
The duties of father-hood and husband-hood our calling so I must be off. I'll leave you with this picture of Kevin Suttmoeller, 43 years young and still rocking BMX!
Don't let the lens distortion fool you, that gap was 20+ feet! There are few more pics of BMX over at
flickr.com/ihatecrashing and I will be posting more up as I get them edited.
-dg
