Favorite Things

Here’s a fun Sunday puzzle. Depending on how you’ve got your computer set up, the picture I have placed somewhere in this post is a still-life photo that I snapped several years ago with a Canon Eos SLR on Kodak 100 ISO black and white film using natural light. The photo intends to represent my pet interests at the time. The puzzle is: how many items can you identify. And after all these years, how many can I still pick out? Right click on the picture, then open up full size in a new window.

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Stressed?

I am in the process of digitizing my life. All my important photos, paper documents, and audio recordings will eventually exist somewhere on my hard drive or in the “cloud”. I came across this photo I took in 1988 with a Canon 35mm SLR of a small foam Christmas toy with an expression that represents my occasional frustrations.

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K1000

Long time readers of this blog know of my leanings to, shall we say, living frugally. To put it another way: I’m cheap. How cheap? I’m so cheap that I have Goodwill on speed dial. What you may not realize is that I will not sacrifice quality. Recently, while thrift store shopping, my hand fell on a camera. It was heavy. An old school manual 35mm film camera. It was a very good Japanese make that appeared to be like new. I turned it over. It was $3.88. An SLR under 4 dollars? This was too good to be true. Did I buy it? Does a dog’s lips move when he reads?

Of course I did. I had another SLR that I paid about $800.00 for in 1988. It was a Canon EOS that took great pictures, but had very few manual features. The Pentax K1000 I bought at America’s Thrift Store in Marietta, GA is a photographer’s camera: no automatic anything. I love it! So far there is nothing wrong with it and it takes great pictures.

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No Video, No Problem

A glimpse inside a real radio broadcast studio can be found on my companion Peanut Whistle Blog. It is a multi-part in depth series on my second radio home where I performed as Jim O’Neal—Disk Jockey and Program Director. Back then, I took quite a few photos with my Cannon 35mm SLR, but never any video like I did in the WBKI YouTube video. This series will be adapted for Aircheck and made into a page some future date. Until then…

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Radio with pictures

Decidedly low budget my one and only video airchecks were done 18 years ago at a 2,500 watt radio station in the hinterland of west Georgia. At that time I had been doing Christian radio for over a decade and was, frankly, burned out. Any job, easy or not, can become stale. I felt no new ground was broken and I had gone as far as my career would take me. A generation later I returned to this VHS-C tape of my last day at radio home three. Through my YouTube channel I have shared portions of the tape; one particular video has got over a thousand hits! Far more people have seen these YouTube videos than we had total listeners in 1993. You’re invited to look, just click on the link. I could kick myself for not taking any still shots on my Cannon 35mm SLR; like I said, by this time interest in my job was at an all time low so the cost of film seem unjustifiable at the time.

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