tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68717125870025109312024-03-13T08:58:10.462-07:00Absolute Reality StudiosWelcome to Absolute Reality Studios.
This webpage is a showcase for the photography of Andrew Kaiser. I have a passion for making images wherever and whenever I can. I seek to capture humanity and the world around me with a focus on the figure.
Film, digital, pinhole, and instant photography are all fair game for me.
Originally from the California Bay Area I have been living in Portland Oregon for the past six years.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.comBlogger342125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-20538778510361575412014-08-03T15:55:00.004-07:002014-08-03T15:55:56.549-07:00I've Moved!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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It is time for me to move on from Blogger and I will no longer be updating this site. Going forward you can follow me here:</div>
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<a href="http://www.andrewkaiserphoto.com/"><b>www.andrewkaiserphoto.com</b></a></div>
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Thank you to everyone who has followed me here over the years and feel free to say hello over at my new website!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-3248788517997164712014-07-16T20:38:00.002-07:002014-07-16T20:38:36.826-07:00Pinhole Moment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pinhole photography is really the closest thing I do to meditation. There is something about making an image with no certainty in mind that creates a zen like experience for me. No viewfinder, no precise way to calculate exposure, no confidence what-so-ever that the effort I put into it will result in an image at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Camera:</strong> Holga Wide Angle Pinhole</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Location:</strong> Bend, OR </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-1174648763479289472014-07-15T17:28:00.000-07:002014-07-15T17:28:05.343-07:00Blend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes I just love forcing the model to bleed into the landscape and disappear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Film:</strong> Fomapan 100</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Location:</strong> Bend, OR</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-26632190677599806182014-07-10T16:26:00.002-07:002014-07-10T16:26:37.129-07:00Much Too Hot!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been incredibly hot these past few days, which makes me long for skies like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Camera:</strong> Sony A7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Location:</strong> Portland, OR - Sauvie Island</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-58056933130430444772014-07-09T19:07:00.001-07:002014-07-09T19:07:28.123-07:00Gorge Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had absolutely gorgeous light going on here that was unfortunately completely backlighting the model. That posed a bit of a challenge to say the least. Fortunately I think I managed to pull it off to some degree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favorite little detail is the ship floating along in the background on the right hand side of the frame. It gets lost a bit when looking at the image on-line, but in print it is really obvious and rad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Camera:</strong> Sony A7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Location:</strong> Columbia River Gorge, OR</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-21844580335051520292014-07-06T10:22:00.002-07:002014-07-06T10:22:24.009-07:00Little Portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the little sliver of light falling right down the middle of the model's face. It's just a nice subtle draw on the eye that I quite enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Camera:</strong> Minolta Maxxum 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Model:</strong> St. Merrique</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Film:</strong> Fomapan 100</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Location:</strong> Portland, OR </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-1494181634682814162014-07-04T13:38:00.002-07:002014-07-04T13:38:43.946-07:00Cape Lookout<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not the most patriotic person on earth, but I figured today was a good day to post something colorful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Film:</strong> Kodak Ektar 100</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Location:</strong> Cape Lookout, OR </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-55165436541683773442014-07-02T09:35:00.003-07:002014-07-02T09:35:51.667-07:00Pinhole<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Camera:</b> Ilford Titan Pinhole</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b> Portland, OR - Sauvie Island</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-83882886643122389122014-07-01T06:47:00.000-07:002014-07-01T06:47:10.567-07:00Color Shift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Camera:</b> Mamiya C330 TLR</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-20701931330231721262014-06-28T08:32:00.003-07:002014-06-28T08:32:48.169-07:00Not Mine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe I’m just borrowing someone else’s life so I don’t have to live my own.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-75264551283900944982014-06-27T06:48:00.002-07:002014-06-27T06:48:37.361-07:00Commitment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">― <a data-mce-href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929.Nick_Hornby" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929.Nick_Hornby" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank">Nick Hornby</a>, <em><a data-mce-href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2961887" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2961887" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank">High Fidelity</a></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently re-read my well-worn copy of <em>High Fidelity</em> and I have to say the older I get the more relevant this book becomes for me. The above quote in particular really resonated in my brain because I feel like there are a lot of people in my life (<strong>myself included!!</strong>) who have trouble making commitments. Career commitments, creative commitments, romantic commitments, really they are all the same and somehow I have found myself locked in a culture where everyone is afraid to take a stand for fear of becoming trapped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all like to think that the best strategy is to keep our options open. After all, if you go down one path full force, any and all potential doors in life will close and you’ll be stuck doing something you may not love. The problem is, keeping your options open also means you are standing still. You will never reach those moments of opportunity and they will never just fall in your lap either. We just wait and stand around sitting on the fence scratching our heads wondering why the answers never seem to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the challenge is to wrap my brain around the fact that a bad decision is far better than no decision at all. Any sort of momentum, even momentum in the wrong direction, is better than the indefinite waiting for that magic bullet that will tell us the right path to take. That simply does not exist. After all, I can always change direction and there are no choices that can’t be undone. Committing to something doesn’t by any means indicate I am sealed off from other opportunities. This isn’t easy mind you, but it is necessary. It’s necessary because by waiting around we are all just killing ourselves through the slow and deliberate action of indecision and doing nothing. Remembering this very simple fact comes wrapped in a box of fear and self-loathing and the cold hard inevitability that I will probably fail at least a few times before I find success. I just can’t forget, running head first into a wall and failing miserably is at the very least admirable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you know what the worst part is? When we commit to nothing we doom ourselves to a fate even worse than suicide. We become boring. We don’t provide a reason for the world or for anyone to care about us. We have nothing to show for our time on this earth and not a soul to mourn us beyond the acquaintances on our speed dial or the supposed friends who drifted past us on their own stagnant journey of non-commitment. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-58529882324077432092014-06-21T20:25:00.002-07:002014-06-21T20:25:55.370-07:00Head On The Door<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-37154913844503003772014-06-21T13:32:00.001-07:002014-06-21T13:32:34.324-07:00Time to Rest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-86429807442993313762014-06-19T16:21:00.001-07:002014-06-19T16:21:11.451-07:00Trudging Along<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b> Portland, OR - Columbia River Gorge</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-40202780456332775652014-06-18T16:45:00.000-07:002014-06-18T16:45:03.069-07:00Smoking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">Yeah, I’ll admit it, I have a “thing” for watching a person smoke a cigarette. I know that puts me in the same camp as about 85% of the rest of the population and I don’t really care. When something works, it just simply works. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><b>Location:</b> Portland, OR </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-57082724363605550092014-06-16T20:30:00.003-07:002014-06-16T20:31:29.917-07:00Expressions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-86995851815451445102014-06-16T06:56:00.002-07:002014-06-16T06:56:44.516-07:00Window<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-89330735796759607292014-06-15T13:49:00.004-07:002014-06-15T13:49:59.043-07:00Sun and Clouds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-68604966962130763292014-06-13T10:42:00.003-07:002014-06-13T10:42:39.150-07:00Coming Back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven’t worked with Keira Grant in well over a year. Thankfully the passage of time doesn’t seem to much matter when it comes to the people you like.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-41131471793401714302014-06-08T19:29:00.000-07:002014-06-08T19:29:34.125-07:00The Things We Remember<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-22929890946397246172014-06-07T12:32:00.000-07:002014-06-07T12:32:00.773-07:00Big Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The entire afternoon leading up to this shoot I wasn't sure what kind of weather I was going to get. The day kept transitioning from pouring rain to a bright and sunny sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the end I got a little bit of both. Or maybe a lot of both. Such is the way of things in Oregon sometimes. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-48034166858735730222014-06-05T17:50:00.001-07:002014-06-05T17:57:43.426-07:00Leap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little known fact about me that I don't often bring up; I have an irrational fear of heights. Many of the models I work with simply do not. So when I am making an image like this there is a very good chance that I am having a mini panic attack while simultaneously clicking the shutter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strange that I did this shoot just a few days ago when I am at a point in time where I feel ready to take a leap. I don't know what that leap is quite yet. Maybe it's moving to another place (the windy city is looking terribly attractive lately). Maybe it's just traveling for a few months straight. Maybe it's hibernating from the world. I'm not really sure. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-46155818853332918012014-06-04T06:46:00.000-07:002014-06-05T18:01:38.768-07:00Duality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like most days I am living a dual life, and I must admit that the energy and force of will that it takes to switch back and forth between the two is becoming more than I can handle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On one hand, I am the person most of my readers on this blog and on the internet know. I’m the artist, the photographer who is constantly going out on adventures, meeting new people, creating images, working diligently developing film and editing photographs. I’m the deep and emotional yet care free person who can convince a woman to fly thousands of miles and take pictures with me for a week. I’m the image maker with thousands of followers and an infinite number of friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then on the other hand there is the regular me, the boring me. There is the guy who goes to an office job every single day and works on zoning permits and spreadsheets. There is the guy who is actually entertained by the stock market and gets the exact same haircut every two months because it takes too much effort to change it. There is the guy who goes home, pulls bills out of the mailbox, and eats frozen dinners alone because he can’t cook to save his life. There is the guy who drinks just a little too much, is socially awkward, has bad taste in music, and often falls asleep with pants on because he is too lazy to do anything else at the end of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot less people want to know the regular boring me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that everyone in my life knows one side or the other, but never both. That fact alone I could handle. What gets to me most is that I can’t help but have the sense that nobody out there <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px;">wants</em> to know both sides. Those who meet me as the care free artist, the crazy photographer – they become painfully disappointed when they find out I have a boring regular life too. Then there are those who meet me as the office drone, the straight laced corporate worker – they become scared and run as fast as they can when they find out I have a life as a photographer. I am always being pulled completely one way or the other and never embraced as the whole person that I am. In my brain I am the complete package, but to everyone else I am either one or the other. Looking back through my life, I feel like each and every person I have known has kept one side or the other at a distance, never fully accepting all of me. They just see the side they want to and I inevitably disappoint them when I try to be my entire self. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’d be curious to hear if there are other creative types out there who have this problem, and if so, how did you overcome it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Camera:</b> Fuji GA645zi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b> Portland, OR</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-9723063132276697322014-06-03T16:00:00.001-07:002014-06-05T18:02:23.289-07:00When A Pinhole Won't Do<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This image originally started as a pinhole photograph, but I liked the scene so much in color that I couldn't help but load a roll of cheap Fuji consumer film into a camera and take images that way instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I ultimately made the right decision on this one even though I'm itching to do more pinhole work lately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Camera:</b> Minolta Maxxum 7</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Model:</b> St. Merrique</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573412954079121037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871712587002510931.post-9808840104998158962014-06-01T20:06:00.001-07:002014-06-05T18:04:57.894-07:00Bend in the Gorge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">Simply because today is the 1st of June, and because I’ve been editing pictures all day long, I’m in the mood to post twice. </span><br />
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