Mary Jo Richards

Close-up of lichen growing on a large rock

Lichen on a rock
📷 Pentax 17
🎞️ Ilford HP5
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Epson V600
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#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead

Nah, I think I will keep him…

LOL! I’d have to move my husband out to make the space for it, and I don’t think that is an option.

love a Samurai!

Um….there are a few more rolls of film on the way.

Refrigerator door with film in the top two shelves and condiments on the bottom shelf.

When the #film starts to take over the fridge, what do you do? I tossed all the expired condiments and made MORE room for film!

I’m down. I need to shoot some of this film that is taking over the refrigerator!

Given that my students had zero experience with film cameras, that was exactly the sort of camera they needed for the project — easy to use, hard to break.

Darnit..I shared the unedited version.

I bought dozens of those craptastic B&H point-and-shoots for my students to use in a project last fall. They actually managed to get some wonderful photos out of them on Ultramax film. This is one of the images that won the photo contest.

I tend to like contrasty images, so I will give this a try.

Just bought my first rolls of the stuff, so a party would be a good excuse to shoot them!

Did AI write this question? LOL

Yes, this professor, while well-intentioned (he was trying to come up with a homegrown alternative to the very flawed commercial AI detectors), is counting on his application to be accurate and to not hallucinate when it claims to have “read” student work.

I sat in an AI workgroup meeting yesterday where one of my colleagues demonstrated a program he wrote with AI that will help him review student work before he grades it. I was unnerved by this for all sorts of reasons.

Does the professor acknowledge what they are doing, or is it just obvious?

I love this month’s theme, especially since they gave me a camera. It makes me hopeful for spring.

Maybe it is! After all, I would think aliens would have cloaking abilities allowing them to blend into the environment ;)

My Finch avatar, Fluffles, dressed in pink and green with a camera around her neck and her micropet by her side.

I use a daily self-care app called #Finch, and this month, one of the virtual rewards for completing tasks is a little #camera! It’s digital, but I won’t fault them too much for that.

A large tree with many bare limbs pointing skyward

One for #ThickTrunkTuesday
📷 Pentax 17 w/yellow filter
🎞️ Ilford HP5+
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲Epson V600
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead

Covered pavilion on a concrete slab with two picnic tables. Tall pines surround the pavilion, and shadows are cast from the trees on the ground.

Pavilion among the pines
📷 Pentax 17 w/yellow filter
🎞️ Ilford HP5+
🧪 Caffenol
📷 📲 Epson V600
#halfframe
#FridayFavourites

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I’ve not even done black and white darkroom printing yet! I’d like to eventually take a class in that, too.

The workshop will have us producing a contact sheet and one 8x10 print. Hopefully I have something worth printing on these undeveloped rolls I have sitting around.

I’ve signed up for a color darkroom printing class at my local lab. Once I have taken a class there, I will be allowed to rent their darkrooms by the hour and make prints if I wish. It’s in a few weeks, and before then I need to get some color film developed to take with me to the workshop. Excited!

And thanks, by the way.

I think I’m just more of a 100/200 ISO kinda person, especially since I prefer to shoot in daylight.

That sound was so distinctive! Like the rattling of bones…

This was an accident, by the way. I don’t know how it happened.

Black and white double exposure with a street lamp over a view of the front of a condo building with snow on the ground.

Ran my first roll of #Ilford HP5+ through the #Pentax 17. I had a mishap during developing and had to swap tanks after I’d already added developer, so most images have some underexposed bits at the bottom of the frame. That said, I got a few interesting shots. This double exposure is my favorite.