I may sound a bit childish, or even stupid (yes, I know you will have a response to this, Expat), but what is a tat gun? I am hoping you are not tattooing yourself.

Clever you. Yup, got the whole kit. I've been drawing and taking art classes since I was 4 (that was 33 years ago, if anyone's wondering) and now I'm trying a new media.

I suck at art... I'm still drawing stick figures... really. I just drew something for my english honors class, and yep, you guessed it... stick figures ! There used to be a sick website with stick figures a long time ago, I'm not sure if it's still around though.

You should tattoo your kids instead of yourself, so if you screw up it won't be on your skin.
(jk)

Actually, my oldest daughter already had that idea...

Looks like I can still take boring photos even with some fancy old rangefinder
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These Walgreens scans are probably the worst scans I've ever used... At least sams club doesn't 'auto-enhance' the pictures and make them look like ****. Forgot my card to get in the store today, though, and didn't want to wait.

you take mad good pictures...for the third time. haha.

lol, thanks. I'm not happy with anything on those whole 2 rolls, though.

Did you ask for extra contrast?

Sick pic.

When it's 2 AM, and there's a mad lightning storm out, I'll stand in the cold in my monkey pjs to get good pics.

haha monkey pj's...

The lightning is cool. It usually comes with rain here, and I don't feel like getting wet, so I've only ever gotten one photo of lightning.

Got some of the shots from Colorado scanned, taken on Velvia 100 and 70-210mm lens.
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The moonrise was amazing today, I took a couple shots on B&W film but I don't know how they'll turn out.. I should stay up or get up early for the sunrise, it'll probably be nice.

Sickness. Madman happens to be creative. Props to ya.

Eek! That's asking for way too much contrast. I was cleaning and found my 70-210 2.8 that I had forgotten about. I should probably shoot some film one of these days...

I go through more film now since it's all I have, I shot 7 rolls in the past 5 days with the M3. Not anywhere near what a lot of people probably do, but I have to pay for the processing too, and I'm poor :p

Velvia is pretty rough, but I'll use more of it. It's too dense for my projector, anything resembling a shadow is black. Astia projected pretty well. Provia seems really good, saturated but the contrast isn't too high, I see why everyone seems to like it.

Did you get much use out of the film I sent you? I don't recall what slide film I shot in New Zealand, but it had some crazy long tonal range. I'll use some more this winter, since it held detail in the highlights really well. Of course, then I need to find a competent printer.

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Some shots with the M3 around the college. Used Provia 100, scanned by Sams club and color corrected, etc by me.

http://static.flickr.com/107/299000395_1b78a2c3ac_m.jpg http://static.flickr.com/121/298986305_ca3b3299c5_m.jpg
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Somebody has mad steeze.

I wish i knew what all their jibberish about film meant...

I really like taking photos but know nothing about it.

And my digital camera has something wrong with it and i'm rarely able to run out of the house with it.

I have no idea what any of that stuff means either.

If you like taking photos, then get a decent camera and a book, and learn, it's a lot of fun.
Check Ebay for a Pentax K1000 or Canon AE1, preferably with a 50mm lens. Manual focus, but they have light meters and are reliable. Then just go get some film from Walmart, and go use it.

Still sounds confusing.

Maybe one of these is more your style then.
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