Medium Format. Yeah, that's right.

For Christmas, one of my friends bought me a Mamiya c220 medium format camera.

Yep. That's right- a FILM camera. Medium format film, to be exact. It takes 120 and 220. (Notice how I say that like I know the difference.)

So, I went today and bought my very first rolls of 120 film (Kodak, one color and one b&w, both 400 iso) and I loaded the color. Then I realized that I was going to have to take a complete stab in the dark about camera settings, as I had NO light meter and my digital was out in the car. Needless to say, I shot two exposures then chickened out until I could do more research and/or get the ancient light meter that my dad gave me to work.

BUT, I also am going to make a coffee table book, but I'm not tellin' you about it because if you know me, you already know what it's going to be about, and I don't want anyone stealing my ideas, yo.

Random Question Archive #6

Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?

I will hide in a patch of dandelions? I am starting to regret my interest in the random question generator.

Random Question Archive #5

How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?

Honestly, who comes up with these questions?

Random Question Archive #4

Well, maybe they don't need them, but don't you think that some fish might like a bicycle?

This feels more like a non-sequitor than a question. I could see John Lithgow's character in 3rd Rock From The Sun asking this of his alien family. Or the college professor lady he wants to bonk.

Megan, Professional Makeup Artist

You would think that, since I am a photographer and all, I would have FANTASTIC pictures of my child in her Halloween costume, what with all the talent pouring out of me when I touch a camera. Well, you'd be wrong- I managed to get a total of 4 shots of Megan (and Kip, who was dressed like Steve from Blue's Clues, which was hilarious and a little hot). All four were grainy, shot at ISO 1600 basically in the dark, and 3 of them were completely out of focus.

So, I did what any desperate parent would do, I waited for the weekend and put her back in her costume to get some fantastic photos.

With Halloween not too far behind us, I still have a giant box of face paint hanging around in the kitchen, into which I dove for face paint for the reenactment. Megan grabbed the little 5-color palate that had been on the coffee table since she went Trick-or-Treating on Wednesday and said, "I'll do my makeup this time, mama." I told her that I would do her Cat In The Hat makeup, then she could do WHATEVER she wanted, after I took some pictures. She decided to paint an unsuspecting victim, my wonderful sister-in-law, Anne in the meantime.

As she coated Anne in layers of paint, we overheard the following:

"Ooops. Well, it's ok if I mess up a little. I AM and artist."

Things I wish Megan would say forever:

Dizzley Land (where Mickey lives)
Narbles (round glass orbs)
Binoc-lee-ars (for seeing a long way away)
Cinco Zhanaz (what you get when you learn Spanish and church songs, "Sing Hosanah")
I have a 'nouncement (get ready for something 'portant)
That's redicleeous!

Upon finding bricks buried in the backyard....

Kip: "Huh. I wonder how these got here? I mean, they're all over the place."
Megan: "Maybe, a long, long time ago, before we were even born, some people from South America put them there for building houses!"
Kip and Kari: *silence*