travel

Today started out with sleeping in. I think it was around 10:30 before I rolled out of bed, which was awesome, though its not normal for me. Our first task this morning was to drop off the film I have already shot, and get our transit passes. Luckily around 3 corners, at a distance of about 3 city blocks, there is a photolab that will do 1 hour e-6 or c-41 processing. And they apparently do enough medium format that they asked if I was shooting 6x6 when I asked them to cut it on 3 frames per strip. I wonder if they see more 6x7 or 6x9.

Today we got up and caught the train toward Brno. It was about an hour's ride through the country when we got to Kutna Hora. The goal of the day was a trip out to see the Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church), and a couple of cathedrals. It was an interesting trip, and we ended up doing a lot of walking. We got the train tickets to the city center in Kutna Hora, however, we got off the arriving train one stop early at the main Kutna Hora station as it is closer to the Sedlec.

Evan is studying in Prague for the summer semester, and as a result, I have taken some vacation time to travel to Prague with her. I intended to learn a bit of czech before getting here, but that intent didn't quite catch up to the activity. I know enough to say excuse me, do you speak english, thank you and good bye. And so far, that actually has been enough. Not everyone speaks english, but the people who do are becoming more common.

I got a new camera last week. Well, new to me, I haven't checked, but, my guess is its an early 1980's model. Anyway, it was precipitated by the underexposure of several photos that would have been incredibly important to me. I have several digital cameras, and several film cameras to be honest, but, I have recently become infatuated with medium format photography. I love the much larger imaging area, and it is probably subjective, but, I feel that film captures a more interesting image.