Good mail day!

I got a new camera bag, a Leaper's UTG Tactical Messenger Bag.

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It's normally used for "tactical" things, like as a range bag. I think it would be great for that but that's not what I'm going to use it for. I cut all the zipper pulls off of it since they make a TON of noise and replaced them with paracord.

I stuffed my Yashicas in there, the LM and the GSN and they fit just fine with a microfiber cloth between them just to keep them from banging together.

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It's also got a water bottle pocket and I was able to stuff eight rolls of 35mm film into various pockets with room to spare. I also got some Arista Premium black and white film that's short dated but it'll keep a long time in the freezer.

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I'm glad I got some more black and white film since I also got a developing tank!

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I just need to get some chemicals and I can get started developing my own black and white!

11/17/2010

I decided to do some black and white shots of my vintage cameras today.

The whole collection.

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Yashica LM

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Yashica Electro 35 GSN

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Fed-2

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I'm really excited to get some shots from the Fed-2!

11/12/2010

I'm getting excited about developing my own film. I'm only going to be doing black and white but I think black and white can be so beautiful. I keep looking at galleries online of black and white photos and it just keeps giving me ideas!

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This roll is just waiting for me to develop it. I've got another roll of TMX 100 waiting along side it.

9/19/2010

I'm ending my black and white week with a shot of Trudy. All of our girls have had their black and white portrait done this week.

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I've really enjoyed taking all black and white pictures this week. It makes me think that shooting mostly on black and white film will be just fine when I'm rolling and developing my own film.

9/18/2010

This one is a bit early. I'm trying to get all of the girls in on black and white week. Here's Beatrice.

The picture is a bit dark, but I like it.

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8/17/2010

300th blog post! The days add up. Photo365 has really bulked up my blog.

I liked the juxtaposition of this picture.

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9/16/2010

I'm still enjoying the challenge of photographing in black and white. I'm going to continue it through the weekend.

This is one of Black Kitty I got while she was lounging on the bed.

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9/15/2010

Wednesday of my black and white week and I'm still enjoying it. I'm really looking forward to using black and white film in my GSN.

Sleepy likes to sleep in most days before she gets up to play and face the day.

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9/14/2010

Continuing black and white week I took some pictures of things that were colorful but I thought looked really good black and white.

*Tickets*

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Columns

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Nu Way Weiners

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9/13/2010

I've imposed a shooting challenge on myself this week. I'm going to shoot in black and white. I'm not going to convert the images to black and white from color, I'm going to shoot them in camera black and white. Here are the first couple.

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