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Half an hour of a painfully polite British guy explaining R2R. I have a (100 lb) Otari 1/2" 2-track sitting upstairs in a closet, waiting for me to do something with it.

Being doing some more editing and non-editing of photos: IMG_0042 First attempt at a panorama with my iPhone. Strictly speaking this was the first photo I've ever taken with an iPhone. IMG_2070 I re-lamped (replaced the bulbs) both of these lights. I used a faux vintage LED bulb on the art nouveau lamp on the right. It is supposed to emulate carbon strap bulbs from the 1920s. I used a "vanity" LED bulb for the art deco lamp on the right. The bulb was too tall the interior space inside the globe, so I had to remove the plastic dome from it. That involved me twisting it off with an oversized pair of channel locks. IMG_1936 Edit 1 3-2 2 Jernegan pond, converted to black & white and duotoned. IMG_2029 An idyll, or the appearance thereof. IMG_1958 Edit 2 Sweetened Water Pond in early December. Converted to black & white and duotoned in Photoshop. I spent considerable time mucking around with this image. I'm still not 100% happy with it. IMG_3405 Infrared study I did over two years ago, with my IR-modified 5D and a Nikon 75-150 F/3.5E push-pull zoom. IMG_3362 17-40mm at the wide end on my IR5D. Straight out of the camera with no edits, which is a rarity for IR.

That time of year again. For Massholes, this is a documentary, not a parody.

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Oh, man. RJD is my favorite \m/ vocalist of all time.

Jimi Hendrix - Early Instrumentals or a reasonably facsimile thereof. I had this EP on cassette during my high school years and played the bejeezus out of it. pyenapple's comment on Discogs sums it up rather well: That last bit is how I re-created the EP. Converted FLACs of the songs in question and turned them into an EP in iTunes.

For the first time in ...for-fucking-ever, I'm actually taking some photos, editing them and posting them online. Wrangling Flickr for the first time in years is an amusing and frustrating experience. I've hated the "new" UI for years now, and I find accomplishing fairly basic tasks with it to be a right royal PITA. Several of the large groups where I was a member have disappeared completely (RIP the hugely active Macintosh group). I barely remember how to embed images via Flickr at this point. IMG_1505 Edit 2 Infrared photo I took 5 years ago almost to the day, with my IR-modified 5D and my 35mm F/2. The 35 has a broke AF motor, but that has never stopped me from using it. I spent ages converting this image to black & white with a high contrast blue filter and then duotoning it in Photoshop. IMG_1852 Ancient historical of a ferry boat ...in the spring of 2016. As I have been doing a bunch recently, I converted this image to black & white and duotoned it in Photoshop. IMG_1848 Edit 2 One of my old favorite tricks, taking the law of thirds to its illogical end. Lots of ocean texture. Mangled heavily in Photoshop to make it look like a historical remnant. IMG_1853 Edit 2 Faux Large Format Shot: The Shenandoah, as photographed from a ferry. Converted to black & white and duotoned in Photoshop. Cropped to 4:5, which is still my favorite aspect ratio. IMG_1917 Edit 1 The most recent shot of the bunch, I took this last May during my previous visit to MV. I only got around to editing it this week. Converted to black & white using a yellow filter and then duotoned in Photoshop.

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Old news to some. Also possibly the cringiest thing I have seen in my life.

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Oliver Lieb released a new L.S.G. album this year. It's the best thing I've heard in 2017. A friend of his made this video.

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RIP John Dunsworth, 1946-2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dunsworth

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For the last 35+ years, I've loved Tom Petty's music. When I first heard "You Got Lucky" on the radio and immediately set out figuring out who it was. In the early 80s, the only members of my family who had cable TV were my grandparents. They had MTV, which was a new and gee whiz thing. They also disapproved of me watching it: "it'll rot your brain." I had to sneak in my viewings, and I was lucky enough to see the video for You Got Lucky. I was too young to understand the Mad Max references. I just knew I liked the song and Tom knocked over an arcade game. Several years later I got my first cassette player, and I bought Long After Dark and Damn the Torpedoes ("Refugee" was another favorite of mine.) As my musical tastes evolved and changed from metal to techno to ambient, I have always revisited Tom's music and loved it.

Probably my favorite artist that made plain old rock n roll since I was single digits in age.

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