Hello old friend. It's been a long time.

I think I've come to the conclusion that this is just going to be a photo blog of my life. There'll rarely be actual photos that I'd personally consider "photographs". More of snap shots of my life. With that being said, I broke out my Nikon FM2 today and I'm really pumped on the outcome. I don't believe I've shot w/ this guy since earlier this year when I headed down to Landslide Skatepark to shoot w/ Daryl Nilson. I did buy five rolls of film today so I think I'll be using it a lot more and I'll put my range finder aside for a little while. Enough rambling; Let me get back to the point here. In this photo I was skeptic on what my light meter was telling me, but I normally am when it's saying to shoot at 1/4000 of a second. It must be that California sun, or maybe it's the fact that I wanted to to shoot at F1.8 for a shallow DOF. Regardless now that I'm thinking about it, it was all compensation to the "Sunny 16" rule. Go figure right?

Jen (1/4000, @F1.8, ISO200)

Hi Jen, I'm Justin.

I've been getting much use out of my Yashica as of late. It's fast becoming my new favorite toy. I've started to post up a lot of random photos on this thing as of late so this is kind of actually starting to become a blog of my life or something. I did manage to make a Flickr for some of my more serious photos, so if you have this page bookmarked you should bookmark that Flickr page too. Anyways, this is a photo I took of Jen. Almost everyday she tells me she hates me or that I suck. Well, atleast she has her facts straight.

Jen (F16, ISO200)

Hey, thanks again Jason.

My good buddy Jason gave me a box of cameras as a going away gift that he had picked up. Inside was a Kodak Duaflex II camera in prime condition. This thing looks like it was almost never used and very well taken care of. The only down side of it is that it was made for 620 film which isn't produced anymore. The substitute is to use 120 film but you'd have to modify the film spool some to make it fit. If I could scan MF film properly it might be worth it, but who knows when that'll be. Anyways, this is probably the first photo "shot" w/ this camera in over twenty years. The subject of the photo is Posie, which Tanner brought to my attention yesterday, is spelled "Posie" and not "Posey", as I've been spelling it since forever. Sorry Posie. No hard feelings.

Posie (F2.8, ISO200)