Between the COVID-19 lockdown, the hypercautious continuing reopening here in New Jersey and the dislocation of leaving our home of the last 47 years I have had a difficult time returning to photography. I finally located what I thought was all of the equipment and materials I used for developing and scanning my negatives. My Epson R2880 printer did not survive the move. It took a while to choose and source a replacement, but that is a topic for a future post. First, I need some new negatives to print. Continue reading “Finally!”
A New Start
I used to joke that our 105-year old house was staying just six months ahead of the wrecking ball. Then a year went by during which health issues kept me from doing any work on it at all. It was time to sell the house and move somewhere that we could live on one floor and not have to do any exterior work, including mowing a lawn or shoveling snow. We were fortunate that a booming real estate market let us sell the house in one week to a real estate developer and in the same week buy a condominium unit in a 55+ gated development just ten minutes away from the old place. As I told my friends, i wanted to move but I didn’t want to go anywhere. We negotiated a short term lease of the old house while a builder did a major rehab of the 50-year old unit.
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Mere Film Photography 