27 October 2006, night Getting ready for an overnight trip to Okayama. We're going with Paul and Jenny. This will be my third Okayama International Villa. Kumiko and I went about 4 years ago to the Shiraishi Island villa with friends from my office, then Mike and Jonathan and I went to Ushimado villa three years ago. Thus will be my first time to visit Hattoji villa. It's a restored 19th century farmhouse in the mountains. Sounds pretty cool. We'll leave tomorrow morning. I just tried to make a lens hood for my Argus A, which I'm taking to Okayama. It's hard to cut out a paper cone with a flat bottom and top. I figured out what the pattern should look like pretty easily, but it's hard to do it perfectly without any drafting tools.
cool 1936 BMW on display at Toyonaka City office
photo with Fujifilm Klasse on Kodak Ektachrome 200
13 October 2006, night Last weekend Kumiko's friend Chie was visiting from Kochi. We went to USJ in the morning because Kumiko wanted to see the Halloween show. The best part of USJ was the animal show though. We'd seen it at least twice before, but this time it was re-themed along with the whole Old West area area. It's now the Land of Oz area, and the animal show is "Toto and Friends". It was fun, and I bought a 370 yen Coke.
But the real fun started when we came back to Umeda for the annual International Beer Summit at the Sky Building. This year, Kumiko and I each had three beers, and I had five kinds of meat: Indian chicken tikka, regular and spicy sausage, Thai grilled chicken, and finally Turkish donner kebab, which is lamb or mutton served in a kind of pita bread. In addition to the three Belgian, one German, One Japanese, and one Palestinian beer we had, we also bought a Russian beer to take home. We drank that one last night.
stellar line-up of international beer bottles
digital photo with Ricoh Caplio RX
Today was a darkroom day for me. I developed my first roll of 127 film from my Zeiss Ikon Baby Box. I didn't have a reel to fit 127 film, and neither did the darkroom, so I had to develop it in trays. It doesn't look very good. I need either more development time or more exposure. Since the camera has no exposure controls, that just means using it under brighter conditions. I discovered that the focus point of the non-adjustable lens is pretty far away, so it's no good for portraits unfortunately.
left:checking wedding photos on my new lightbox (Thank you, Julio!) right:Aya and Yousuke Akita - wedding in Saipan
left:digital photo with Ricoh Caplio RX right:photo with Contax Aria on Kodak T-Max 100
There are Saipan photos available now and also a massive combined set of train photos just because I wanted to have them all together.
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