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some of my favorite spots around town

Bill gave me a roll of slide film to test and the lab finally sent it back after two months! I had forgotten what was on it, but here are some random shots from a while back …

Thanks, Bill!

Some of my favorites from the first roll. The whole weekend evolved around family with both sides of my family coming and spending the last days with Thuy before she went off to school.

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Shuttle launches captured from the sky. Amazing.

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Happy Friday! Off to catch the last showing of Bill Cunningham New York at the MFAH with my sister. We finally carved out some time.

Slow summer days.

Portrait. Wall outside Toy Joy  & bedroom mirror.

It’s kind of hard to find a good lab that will develop and scan film for a reasonable price. My recent ones, including the ones above, have faint streaks across them. So far, the Wolf Camera on 1960 has been the best. Trial and error.

We dog-sat this cutie, Coraline, last week and I really miss having her nap with me—toxic farts and all.

My film retrieval mission from the camera was kind of successful: once the lights were off and BJ threw the towel under the door, it felt like I was back in Photo I, fumbling and swearing at the film in the dark. The rest of the pictures that I took from our trip are here.

This is my father in law, Bill, an appreciator of fountain pens, typewriters, classic Hollywood, analog photography, pocket watches, etc. Lately, we seem to have a bit of bad luck with our cameras: his dropped and the back won’t close while my last roll of film is out of its spool and stuck in the camera (yikes!). But I love these shots he took during our trip before the camera drop, and I hope these glitches are just minor setbacks.