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Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flipped Lens Camera
Kodak T-Max 100 film pulled half a stop

Last week I shot a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye. I flipped the lens several years ago. It's been sitting on the shelf of a cottage until recently. I needed to get out of the house, so I took it for a walk...a couple of miles around the neighborhood. I focused (as best you can with an old fixed-focus camera) on fire hydrants. They're easy subjects (trite, too) since the don't complain about posing. Here's what I got. I forgot the camera has a few light leaks. I'll need to tape the seams next time.

In case you don't know, this Brownie model shoots 620 film. It's possible to use 120 on the take up reel, but you may need to bend some small metal tabs on the sides of the pick-up reel holders. It's that easy.

Camera and film ready for (limited) adventure

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Time Dies During a Pandemic

I swear I posted here yesterday, but apparently yesterday was April 27. Time dies during a pandemic. I've been focused on a couple of project ideas. One, dealing with cyanotype, has hit a snag but that's fine. I'll work on it more once real-life work eases a bit. The other is capturing how we, as Americans, display the flag. There's zero commentary, it really is as simple as that. Making this series is easier: I can capture as I have time (been working on it for years, I realized recently), or just happen to have a camera on me. If I see a flag I want to shoot, but don't have a camera, I make a note (they used to be mental notes, but I've switched to using Google Keep so I don't have to rely on my aging brain) to go back and shoot it later. Here are a few so far. All were shot using a Reality-So-Subtle 6x6 and Fuji Velvia 50 film:

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Moonbow Meander

Cumberland Falls, Google Pixel 4 Mini Snow Diana F+ MEG, Kodak 400TX Gatliff Bridge Diana F+ MEG, Kodak 400TX Cumberland River Diana F+ MEG, Kodak 400TX Last month I packed a few cameras and visited Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky. I planned to go with someone else. I drove up alone, opening the windows occasionally to the cold to wake myself because I'd slept so little in the weeks prior, and felt melancholy. In the higher elevations I smiled at patches of snow that fell earlier in the week but were mostly melted. It was the first snow I'd seen this season, despite being February. Every white patch brought a blizzard of happy memories, smiles that melted back into sadness. The drive took longer than I expected, longer than Google said it would, but I welcomed the slowness. A long bridge spanning the obscenely swollen Cumberland River greeted me at the park. It’s been a wet winter, but the speed and rage of the water shocked me. I didn’t recognize ...

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