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Bigger Plans Than You Have For Yourself

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This week in Leodom, brought to my inbox by Free Will Astrology:

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – I was sitting in San Francisco’s Cafe Gratitude, meditating on your horoscope. In my notebook I’d doodled a giant hand reaching down to earth from the clouds. It was holding a silver platter that bore a book whose title was “Fresh Instructions.” This gift was being offered to a half-lion, half-human creature that represented you. Shortly after I finished this drawing, a woman came through the front door of the restaurant and sat at a nearby table. Her t-shirt had a message that was the perfect caption for the image I’d made: “Maybe God has bigger plans for you than you have for yourself.”

Chalk art

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Chalk art
Taken with the Holga 120 CFN, using cross-processed Fujichrome T64.

With the possibility of the last bit of sunshine disappearing for awhile after today, I decided to make the most of it photographically. I broke out the Fuji Instax 200 instant camera that I have on loan from Kai, and used up the rest of my film. I’ve been disappointed with the results from this camera so far, but today I was able to get some shots I’m happy with. I will post them another time.

Five great things from this week:
1) Long walks in the sunshine and fresh air
2) Enjoying a delicious dinner made by Kai
3) A productive visit to an art supply store
4) Getting over being angry and learning to let go
5) Two good mail days in a row.

Balloons

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Taken with the Holga CFN, using cross-processed Fujichrome T64.

On Friday I went to Radha Yoga and Eatery with friends, and the salad I had there was so good I was inspired to replicate it for thanksgiving dinner. It consists of mixed greens, goat feta, small chunks of apple, toasted walnuts, and a homemade lemon and sesame dressing*. It just might become my new favorite thing to make.

[*The dressing recipe is from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home.]

Angles and light

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Holga 120 CFN, cross-processed fujichrome T64. From the same roll as the previous two blog posts.

Taken at the Plaza of Nations a few weekends ago when Kirsti and I went to check out the Portobello West fashion and art market. I really enjoyed wandering through the stalls in the open air space of the Plaza of Nations, as there was a lot of great merchandise by the local creative people, ranging from clothing to pottery, to hangable art. The market is on-going and happens on the last Sunday of every month in the same location. The next one is October 29th, from 11 to 5pm.

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Holga 120 CFN, cross-processed Fujichrome T64.

Last friday as I was walking past I fell in love with this shadow on the sidewalk cast by someone’s house numbers. This week as the autumn chill sets in, it feels less appropriate to wear flip flops and more like socks with long boots type weather. I sense soggy footwear and damp pant cuffs in my near future… 😉

The last Cosmos of summer

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Taken with a Holga camera, using cross-processed fujichrome T64 film.

After putting up with poor quality scans of my photos for far too long I bought myself a wonderful new film scanner on the weekend. Wow, what a difference it makes in the level of detail with my holga shots, as evidenced by the above photo. The odd colouration is a result of shooting tungsten film in daylight conditions.

Embryo

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Embryo

An accidental double-exposure, taken with my diana clone camera. The shutter tends to stick sometimes just after I’ve switched between aperature settings.

It was a very “arty” weekend for me, checking out some of the work on display for Main Street’s studio tour, called The Drift. As always, I was inspired by a visit to Arleigh Wood’s place, and I really liked the work of Carly Louth on display at Soma.

[Please excuse me while I play around with the template a bit. I’m so tired of the old one, it makes me want to poke my eyes out when I see it…)

Camouflage

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Camouflage

Christopher and I made a second attempt at double-exposing film with our holgas. It was Chris’ idea to take a different approach than our first attempt, which involved shooting each frame in the same moment. This time he shot the film first in his holga, rerolled it back to the beginning, then gave it to me to shoot in my own camera. I didn’t know what sort of imagery was already on the film when I took my pictures, but I was instructed to take portraits.

I like the mix of plant imagery overlapping the portraits and the way they create variations in lighting and colour that slightly obscure the subjects features. It reminds me of what I do mixing textures with human figures in my photoshop work. I’m happy with the results of this second attempt, and it’s interesting to compare these to our first roll of film based upon the different approach we took. Hopefully we can explore this idea further in future.

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In July I was in Seattle for the landing on Alki Beach of the Seaforth Pirates. Everything there was pirate-themed, including the children’s inflated amusements.