Journal

GC9XPFR

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I recently placed and submitted for approval a new geocache at Geocaching.com. This one is titled: “The One Dedicated To Tracy” at nearby Tracy Park. This is the second geocache, loaded with trackables, log, pencil and trinkets I’ve placed out into the wild and loving the interaction from the GC community so far.

**UPDATE**

Due to my cache placement being in close proximity to an Adventure Lab cache, one that is virtual, my submission was denied. I’ve had to relocate my hide and it was approved. Frustrating that my physical cache had to make way for a virtual cache.

Lomo Turquoise Emulation

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Last year, Lomography teased the photo film community with images hinting that they were bringing back the Turquoise film. Development has been ongoing and is scheduled to release fall of this year, 2022. Pre-orders sold out and more have been pushed back until November. I can’t wait that long to experiment with this unique emulation. Below are the examples that Lomo gave us, followed by own attempts to duplicate the results.

Lomography’s examples

Oh well, back to the digital lab to fine tune the process and get those gorgeous colors!

Explore More

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For me to experience life I must explore. The insatiable urge to see what’s around the next corner must be satisfied or I will die, so it is for my own survival I must go. And so I go, typically with a camera as I have time and time again.

The Infinite Web

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From the short story of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Book of Sand,” there is an ancient book with no beginning and has no end. The narrator discovers this simple-looking book contains endless volumes of information that was good and evil.

“I realized that the book was monstrous. It was cold consolation to think that I, who looked upon it with my ten flesh-and-bone fingers, was no less monstrous than the book. I felt it was a nightmare thing, an obscene thing, and that it defiled and corrupted reality. I considered fire, but I feared that the burning of an infinite book might be similarly infinite, and suffocate the planet in smoke.”

He quickly deposits the terrifying, infinite book to the National Library and vows never to go to a library or bookstore again.

It’s strange to me to think that we open our very own Books of Sand every day without thinking of the consequences. The sheer infinite volume of the WWW is too difficult to imagine. It is our nightmare and distorts our reality. Like all tools, it can be used for good, but we humans do a frightening job of perverting even the best intentions.

GC9XF0J

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After eleven years of geocaching, I finally have submitted my own hidden cache into the wild.

Geocache #6 (GC9XF0J) is located east of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and is currently pending review on my submission. But it is placed and ready to go!

Hidden in plain sight
or is it?
Log, pencil, game token and a travel bug to circulate around the globe!

The Sun Also Rises

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Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

I’m re-reading this novel and it’s amazing how there are so many applicable quotes that hit me straight on.