I did not make any photos yesterday. It was too cold (-18C) too overcast (blech), and we were having too much fun with friends to get all Calvinist about making photos.

Instead, looking back through December 27ths in my film photos, I was reminded of this day five years ago. It felt just as cold (though I had yet to enter my cold lady years), but is was, my gosh, *sunny*!

One of the Christmas presents I received was a Kodak No. 2 Cartridge Hawk-Eye Model C, a very simple box camera from Kodak. This would have been one of their 1913 models, stripped of most of its features, and reissued in 1930 to mark the film company’s 50th anniversary. They even gave more than 500,000 of them away for free to any child of 12 years that requested one.

While I do not always use my box cameras, I enjoy using them, and was quite excited to give it a roll to see what I would get from it.

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