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January 15th, 2007

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04:55 pm - The road is gone, there's just one way to leave here
After so many months, I have finally started cleaning off my camera. Only a few hundred pictures to sort through. Somehow fitting, I guess then, that one of the newest is of a map-photo-collage I started working on to document for my own understanding the evolution of the South Side:

From Pgh Map


(The paper to its right is a large map of the J&L Steel Pittsburgh works which was scanned by a friend who works somewhere with a large document scanner; The maps and photos you see in the shot here are from the Pitt Digital Library, mostly.)

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From:[info]blackcatbon
Date:January 16th, 2007 12:47 am (UTC)
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watching you put the big part together on the kitchen floor was interesting. its coming along nicely!
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From:[info]tubecity
Date:January 23rd, 2007 06:11 pm (UTC)
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One nice thing about not having gone digital (yet) is that "cleaning out the camera" consists of sending the film to ABC Photo Lab (or lately, Walgreen's).

Nice job on the maps, though. :-)
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From:[info]gwenix
Date:January 23rd, 2007 08:38 pm (UTC)
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Is Walgreen's actually good at it? I have some rolls of film I've yet to send of, mostly because the last time I sent off someplace, I got back pictures with large pink streaks in them (but not in the negatives), but the company insisted there was nothing wrong! So, I've been searching for someplace that can do a good job.
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From:[info]tubecity
Date:January 25th, 2007 05:30 am (UTC)
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I've only had a few rolls done (mostly stuff that I needed right away) and so far, so good.

I think a LOT of it has to do with the fact that the Walgreen's around here are all new, and have new machines with new chemicals. We'll see if their processing is still OK a few years from now.

For the longest time, I sent film out for (major film brand name) processing, but lately the pictures were coming back with bad colors and streaks and spots, and it was taking several days to get them. The last roll took more than a week (it was supposed to be "overnight") and I said to hell with them.

I got very nice results recently from ABC Photo Lab --- which is run by the people from the former Mystic Color Lab --- but they are a little bit pricey. Probably $2 or $3 more per roll than Walgreen's, CVS, etc.

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