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Back to School
Hi all,My name is Scott and I recently moved to Wilmington, North Carolina to embark on a new path in life. After getting a degree in mathematics in my youth and spending the fifteen years that followed corporate ladder-climbing in tech, I eventually burned out and pursued a more relaxing career in photography. (Creative endeavors…
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We’re Going on a Journey
So many times, this site has gone into cardiac arrest. And almost always, it languishes in agony, forgotten by me until I catch it in my periphery as I whip past, rushing headlong in some new direction. And I’m always more appalled by the aesthetics of its demise than concerned for its actual death. Because…
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The Canon FD 24mm
I mentioned in my post on the test shoot that I ran into issues with the Canon FD while shooting. The issues I ran into were twofold. One, despite my light meter readings, everything was way over exposed. And two, focusing was more difficult, I felt, than it should’ve been. After a few shots during…
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The Test Shoot
Had a shoot with Reese last Saturday specifically to test out new equipment and, more importantly, to test out changes to my workflow. Definitely time well spent. Learned a lot and, as an added bonus, Reese and I ended up with a number of shots both of us found exceedingly satisfactory. As far as the…
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The Lunchbox Camera Case
I just built myself a custom lunchbox camera case for a fraction of the cost of what I would pay someone else to do it. And then I built a second one. And I did it with vintage lunchboxes. Could not be more pleased than I am. These are exactly what I’ve wanted and needed…
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Lenses, Swirly Swirls, and a World of Green
Sometime, I don’t know, maybe two months ago now(?), I contacted one of the models I’ve shot previously about shooting again. Both super excited about shooting together again. So then we started planning. And I’m super, super stoked about what’s going down. And then I said, hold up, let’s wait until I get these new…
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Shooting with Vintage Lenses
Two of the three vintage lenses I’ve ordered have arrived along with two focal reducers to match their mounts. The first lens to arrive was a Pentax 35mm f3.5 with M42 mount. I have a straight M42 to X-mount adapter from Urth that I’ll probably keep on it, making the effective focal length ~52m on…
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Rest in Peace, Stacy
Recently, I’ve been re-posting words I wrote shortly and long after Alec committed suicide on March 1st, 2010. While I had been planning to republish those words eventually, recent events made getting them up a priority. Cue it up for listening while you read Right after Alec’s wake, I drove into town to meet up…
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It’s a nice town.
Winston-Salem is not the town for me. It’s a nice enough place. Just not for me. As someone who is forever viewing each city or town I live in as Goldilocks’ next bowl of porridge that’s not quite right, I actually knew before I moved here that it was going to be a little lukewarm.…
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Normal Speed Time Traveler
There are a few thoughts that dominate my mind lately. And they’re both sort of broad-ranging and, in a way, tied together. The subjects? Aging and our connected world. I want to talk about aging first. And I’m likely to write more about it but I’ve been trying to get this down digitally forever. Aging,…
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The Pursuit of Happiness
It was during that superficially exciting time in my life when I was living in South Beach, surrounded by beautiful people, and shooting erotica nonstop that someone said to me, “I wish I could be you.”Without hesitation I replied, “No you don’t. I don’t even want to be me.” There have always been dark realities…
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The Darkness and the Light
Cue it up now, please, listen as you read. I’m kind of battling with two different things right now, and trying to find the balance between everything. I think I should warn you that, while this isn’t graphic in nature, that the content of this post may be upsetting. If you’re of influential mind, just…
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Catharsis
The sky was blue all day that day. Catharsis is the emotional cleansing of the audience and/or characters in the play. In relation to drama it is an extreme change in emotion resulting from strong feelings of sorrow, fear, pity, or laughter; this result has been described as a purification or a purging of such…
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Remember
At 4pm this afternoon, we will be burying Alec. I would ask for one thing from those of you who can’t attend the service but who knew Alec, myself, his mother, his brother, his girlfriend, or any of the rest of our family: please take a moment of silence at that time to remember him.…
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Love
Everyone, This post is going to be somewhat short and I have soooooo much to say, but I need to get a message out right now. Everything feels like it’s happening at lightning speed. I don’t know where to begin. I can’t thank everyone enough for your love and support. As a lot of you…
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Visitation and Funeral Service
I want to say thank you en masse for all of your love. To all of the many friends who have reached out across this globe to share your love by phone, by message, by whatever means you have been able to, I thank you. We are having visitation on Saturday, the funeral will be…
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I beg
I beg that you please send all positive thoughts, energies, prayers, whatever you have this way to my family and I. I’m in Charlotte, NC, tonight and will be in Newberry, SC in the morning. Alec, my oldest son, committed suicide today, Monday, March 1st, 2010. I just want to ask that you keep all…
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Nomad’s Land
I’m leaving South Florida for a while. I’m taking a trip across the country. On my scooter. Since my scooter maxes out at 35mph (unless I’m going downhill), I can’t take the interstate, obviously. And so I will be taking the long way; the shorter back roads, the long empty stretches of highway, through the…
