Shoot Film, Ride Steel
@shootfilmride
Aging bicyclist and film photographer. In love with and living in the Intermountain West.
A genuine fake Leica lens cap on my LLL 8 element 35mm f2 lens. The original lens cap is on the bottom of a canal somewhere between Spakenburg and Utrecht.
I bring stationary home. If I leave it behind some lout will likely just use it to jot down phone numbers or something. Het Roode Koper has beautiful quality in their notepads. Weeshuis Gouda is part of Relais & Chateaux who do it right as well. Karel V is small, but still good.
Dear US Museums, I always view eating at your restaurant as just giving you a donation while enduring rubber chicken or the like. Rijks Museum has put you all to shame. Your game needs to be stepped up.
It’s hot today in Gouda. You guys should turn on some of these fans.
Current status: the Netherlands aren’t half bad. The ride was perfect, and this rose is quite lovely.
Well, now I’ve done it. I really like this Travelers Notebook. Very tactile leather case, the pages write like butter.
Whereabouts Unknown 1 Kodak Medalist I, Fomapan 400 in HC110. Plains of eastern Colorado I think this may be the start of a series. Just two things that are physically near each other that seem a bit odd in juxtaposition.
Same formula, different focal length I think. Nice lens!
Wonder if I remember how this thing works. It’s been a while.
That’s some handsome cameras right there. I’ve got a pair of 2s, so I guess we’re brothers from another mother?
Found out there is a Daiso near me. I had heard of their notebooks and notepads, but never used one. Now I’m kind of mad I’m late to the party. This $2 or so notepad handles fountain pen ink way better than anything Moleskine ever made.
Found what this beast is. This is a Seiko Conceptual SSB34P1. It’s too big, at 44mm diameter and 13mm thick so I kind of look like I have a hockey puck on my arm. It was worth the $100 I gave for it but list was $360. I like it well enough, even if it looks cartoonish.
March 13, 2020. 7:04AM First day of the pandemic. Last train ride to the office for some time. There was one other person in the car I rode, huddled at the end farthest from me. I waved. They did not wave back.
Swapped the strap on this cheap Seiko mecha-quartz chrono and I like it better. I forget the ssb number, I bought it off of Jomashop as a test. It’s too big but it was $100, so it’s a wash. I’ve got watch parts coming in to start fiddling with building them again. We’ll see how I do.
I haven’t spent any time in Utah, just traveled through. Maybe if we get a real winter next year I’ll do a little wheeling over there. Phone photo from the Zephyr on the Denver-Emoryville section of the cross country trip. Kind of amazed by the emptiness when I took it.
Remember Blue Highways? I just started a re-read of it. I remember being in high school and reading it, how it gave me wanderlust and shaped me. Such a formative book. Still impacts me today. thereaintlanguage.com/blue-highways/
While I like this cheap Timex Viscount, I’m tempted to get a winding box for it because setting the day/date complication is a colossal pain in the ass.
Folks, if you never see a Craig Pindell print in person, you never really see it. Many thanks for the card, Craig. I can feel the cold looking at that image. Happy Christmas, Craig!
Always wanted to see the Northern Lights. I just saw them from my backyard in Aurora CO. Visible with naked eye. Go outside and look, neighbors.
If I ever come back from the graveyard Tell me I remind you of someone you used to know-LH Tis the season
As promised to @papashittycams.bsky.social a couple of shots with the Light Lens Labs Eight Element collapsible on the M2, at f8 (l) and f11 (r). This is an abandoned stamp mill on Kodak 5222 developed in HC-110 dilution B. Scanned w/Sony Alpha, Negative lab pro log. I had permission to be there.
I understand some of you live in places where the outside doesn’t look like this. Digital preview. Film to come.
Drug this beastie out for the first time in years, probably since I had it CLA’d a while back. The new Polaroid color film is surprisingly good. It takes longer to develop, but compares well to the original.