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Shooting Kentmere 100
Some people say you have to get the processing juuuuust right to get the best results from Kentmere 100, a black-and-white film manufactured by the same folks who make the Ilford films. But I don’t process my own. My film is always at the mercy of whatever chemical soup my favorite processor uses. I’m willing to place some…
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The long-awaited end to the sewer saga
I’m celebrating this Independence Day by flushing the toilet. This is no commentary on the state of our country. It’s elation that my house is, at long last, connected to the city’s sewer. Longtime readers of this blog might remember that about four years ago the city sent me a letter that said they would lay…
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Returning to normal as the big sewer project wraps up
I started to think maybe I’d had enough of the giant sewer project in my neighborhood the day I was driving, by necessity, down the wrong side of my street, met a neighbor driving the other way, and had to back up 100 feet and into someone’s driveway to let him pass. Fortunately, paving was…
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The soundtrack of this project is the “beep beep beep” of heavy equipment backing up
They start each weekday at 6 am, the workers who are laying sanitary sewer pipe in my neighborhood. It’s a darn good thing I’m already up then, because I couldn’t sleep through all the noise they make. This is what they’re laying in the street. Did you know that the French word for sewer is égout?…