Camera: iPhone 17 ProMax.

Analogue:

1. 5 am. Woke up naturally (no alarm)
2. 5:15 am. Pour-over coffee¹.
3. 6:00 am. Gentle stretching².
4. 6:30 am. 40 min Zazen (meditation)
5. 7.30 am. Put on LP record.
6. 7.31.am. Wrote in journal (pen and paper)³.
7. 8.00 am. Put a new role of film in my camera⁴.
8. 8.15.am Shower. Breakfast and another coffee⁵.

THEN.

Digital:

1. 9.am. Turned on laptop to write this post to flaunt my analogue superiority, got assailed by 7 pop-up notifications, checked into them, got distracted by an email, sneaked a peek at the news headlines, rage posted a 5-word response on Mastodon, fell into my RSS feeds, link-shifted to some rabbit hole of doom posting antidotes, browsed my recent photos (which I only looked at last night), segued to Amazon and ordered a book, updated my apps, checked to see if the new iOS update had dropped, opened a few apps that I haven’t even used in forever (just to make sure I still don’t need to use them),then succumbed to a few YouTube videos.
2. 10 am. Realised I had just wasted 1 hour of my life to the suck of endless distraction.
3. 10.05 am. Stayed on line to finish this post. Then pulled the plug.

1. Currently experimenting with the best temperature to brew my dark signature blend. Dark coffee tends to taste more bitter when brewed at higher temperatures. Yet I like my coffee hot as possibe. 94 C seems to be the sweet spot for me. ↩︎
2. I have a recurrent back injury (nurses back) and so I really try to gently loosen it all up first thing. ↩︎
3. I don’t keep a running diary or anything. I just doodle shit down. ↩︎
4. Ilford HP5 24 exposure. I am still in ongoing battle with the pesky light leaks after replacing the foam light seals a while back. That is why you don’t (yet) see many analogue photos posted here. Let us see how this roll goes….. ↩︎
5. I try to limit myself to 3 coffees a day. I often fail. ↩︎