Category: Web

I think all of the fussing and terminal hacking it takes to utilize a static site generator to deploy a website is something that I would have fallen in love with 10 years ago. Now? Now I just want things to work, and work easily. So WordPress gets a stay of execution.

Analog

I made a throwaway minimum bid at a local auction house for a Canon AT-1 35mm camera and a box of lenses. The site had a single, low resolution and out of focus photo so I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I placed the bid.

Turns out, what I got was:

• An f2.8 50 mm lens
• An f1.8 28mm wide angle lens
• A 100mm-200mm telephoto lens
• A 1:5 (5:1?) macro lens. I know nothing about macro lenses so this is new to me.
• A near-mint camera body that just needed a good wipe cleaning and dusting.

I can’t believe my luck! I bought a roll of 200 ISO Kodak film and we will see how it turns out. I am loving the deliberate and purposeful decision making that happens when there’s a finite and number of photos that can be taken (not to mention the fact there’s a distinct dollar value attached to each one). I also really like that there is no immediate satisfaction. I have no idea if the 8 photos I took this morning are any good, and I probably won’t know for a month or more until I shoot 28 more and get the roll developed.