half day?

i showed up at work this morning to find a couple of electricians working in our lab. conveniently, they had all of the computers unplugged, so i wasn't able to start doing anything. after talking to my advisor for a few minutes i crossed my fingers and headed to cvs to pick up my pictures.

yes, i have a digital camera, but i have a thing for film...i also have a fully manual camera with which you can take some pretty amazing pictures (assuming you know how to use it). well, i accidentally exposed the film last week while rewinding it. oops! fortunately, however, aside from one or two of the photos, nothing was affected. my light meter was being a bit finicky, so i had to go on experience with shutter speed and f-stop settings when i was taking the pictures. i'm going to try and scan some of them tonight, but in general everything turned out great. i was pretty happy with the pictures from the vineyard that chris, julia, my mom and i visited. i didn't have my tripod with me and to get a picture of the cellar (where they are thinking about getting married) i had to expose the film for 1 sec (if you've never worked with film before, 1 sec is a very long time to be exposing film, especially without a tripod). the pictures turned out significantly better than the digital photos i took of the same area, so i was pretty pleased. otherwise, i had just been playing when i was taking the photos--focusing on different objects in the foreground and background, trying to capture detail. i'll try to scan some of the pictures tonight and post them.