Category: Blog
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Having been sufficiently thrilled by the squill, I proceeded back home to enjoy catching up with my Mom on the phone (as we do most Sundays) and to have my lunch of a little egg salad-like sandwich made of leftover tofu scramble. After that, it was off to the National Arts Centre, which was hosting…
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Why? Because Spring is here! The Spring that is about to explode with colour. The trees well-and-truly awaken and the view from my balcony goes from brown-and-sticks to bright treen to deep green in what feels like two or three weeks. …and even more to my delight, the flowers! The flowers! From the beds planted…
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I’m just being dramatic. I know that I am. I could have titled this “Charlotte faces challenges scanning a re-spooled oddball specialty film that third-parties like selling to make colour films available at lower price points” or something. But my gosh, is scanning Kodak Aerocolor sometimes an exercise in frustration. Going forward, I think I’d…
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Hot on the heels of Bluesky’s #FP4Party came the annual #PolaroidWeek which, while not limited to (or even centred on) that platform, is where I learned about it. It is not often that I use Polaroid. In fact, 2024 was the first time I had ever used it. I got curious when I received it…
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I don’t exactly remember when, but I recently saw a conversation about third-party lenses float through on Bluesky. The conversation’s general direction was that third-party lenses are more often than not just fine and are unfairly maligned. It got me thinking about my own collection and that I don’t have many third-party lenses. There are…