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Decisions, decisions…

Two more photos for the last two days of 2024! I still have plenty of film rolls, and I cannot wait to see what I capture in 2025.

This is a barista that I made friends with after taking another candid photo of her. I like my subjects to know about the photos I take, and I know that candids can be a bit dicey at times.

📸Pentax K1000

December 13, 2024

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Lovers to friends. They found out they were aromantic

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Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist

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These are some of my favorite Doctors. 🎶

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This is a shot of my Canon 5D mkIV. I really wanted to start shooting in black and white, but I have found that I really love color. B&W is great, I just found my enthusiasm for it waning faster than expected.

September 8, 2023

Pentax K1000

Location not remembered

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I'll be crying over the last two episodes of Lower Decks for weeks to come. As a writer, I saw a lot of influential things that I really want to emulate in my books.

I love the way each character interacts with each other. It's chaotic and unclean. Just like many friendships I've had in the past. But they always figure out a way to communicate better (like current friendships). This show had its flaws, like every show. But I'm still gonna be biased and call it a "perfect" show.

One thing I enjoyed about these episodes (hell, the show in general) was the fawning each of them had for various historical figures. You can call that Meta all day long (and you wouldn't be wrong). But it's basically like many of us fawning over historical figures of the past. It just felt more real than other shows – or maybe it was a more Millennial lens for this show.

I could go on about what I love about this show. But really, I just wanna sit with the "friendship surpasses all universes" lesson the penultimate episode gave us. Just for a little bit longer.

Head empty, just WD5 chilling 🥺

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Continuing the First Shot series…

This was the day after an election that made my already terrible burnout much worse. And the day I decided to process both a bunch of film rolls and my emotions. And I will probably talk about this particular day for a while. There were so many little things that happened (like this fire on the other side of the island) that I don't think I'll ever run out of stories.

November 9, 2024

Alameda, CA

📸 Pentax K1000

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The way the light affects the pictures looks like frayed cloth, and I love it. It's jagged and irregular and imperfect.

December 7, 2024

Pentax K1000

Near the Port of Oakland

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Another start of a roll shot. This is achieved (often not-on-purpose on my end) because once you place the film canister in the camera, you need to take some of the film out and place it in the spool. Then you need to take a picture or two and use the crank to progress the film. Often times I need to take the same picture twice in order to get past this part of the roll that's already been exposed to light.

Taking a picture of my shadow is always a fun way to start a roll of film. This is at the corner of where Pixar Studio is located.

Pentax K1000

Emeryville, CA

November 14, 2024

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Accidentally posted today's photos on my side blog, and I don't feel like deleting and reposting.

I hadn't picked up my camera in a while. But I was in the middle of burnout, and it was my first time at the Oakland Zoo. And before getting a proper light meter.

Anyway! This week will be the beginnings of camera rolls. We start off with an animal. I've been enthralled with how this affects the first couple of photos as the film is progressed after snapping the shot.

This effect is so cool to me that I used one of these for the first issue of my newsletter!

Pentax K1000

800ISO

August 22, 2024

Oakland Zoo

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Let's start the weekend off by surrounding ourselves with plants. Also, it's the last Friday the 13th of the year. Do with that information as you will.

Camera: Pentax K1000, 400 ISO, color film

Location: San Francisco, CA

November 16, 2024

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That sandwich must be good.

Camera: Pentax K1000, 400 ISO, color film

Location: San Francisco, CA

November 16, 2024

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I get nervous at times when taking photos. So I generally check with someone about taking their photo. I made a new friend who actually asked to have her photo taken. And I think it came out well.

But I accidentally set the light meter to the wrong number. So I had to ask Underdog Film Labs to push the stop up a bit. I still think it came out pretty well.

Camera: Pentax K1000, color film

Location: San Francisco, CA

November 16, 2024

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I posted a cropped version of this on my private Instagram account. Normally I don't like cropping, but it was too good a comparison with my burnout, so I did.

Camera: Pentax K1000, 400 ISO, color film

Location: Alameda, CA

November 16, 2024

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"Supernatural Rating System, V2.0"

Hello! I am developing a TV rating system that started with Supernatural.

Intro

We like to rate movies. And we also like to talk about the best and worst episodes of any given show. The subjectivity of it all is endlessly fascinating.

Well, what if there was a rating system that is both scientific and could be used to start conversations about said episode?

That's what this system hopes to achieve.

But what is this?

The Supernatural Rating System is partially based off of the SCUM system from Kill James Bond. That system, while great, focuses on the negatives (in my opinion). And that's great, though I also like to focus on the positives (bc I'm stubbornly optimistic). My system includes both.

Great, how do I use this?

Whenever you see an instance of Dramatic, Camp, Realism, or Meta, that is a positive point toward the episode. The SCUM system is here to point out the not-so-great side of an episode. Those instances are negative, and thus take away from the points. You tally all of the points up at the end credits and bam: you've just given a very scientific rating of that one episode of Supernatural or TNG.

The graph I've included is meant for visual purposes. I'm unsure if I'll keep that or not. This is not perfected as of yet, so if you'd like to try this out and give me some feedback, I would love that.