Yaum's Photo Diary

Am officially finished the painting of darkroom #2. Thank goodness! am sick of the whole painting thing. Am now cleaning out an old close...

Yesterday did a run-visit to 3 second hand shops looking for useful, things for the darkroom. Picked up some items on the cheap that should...

The 2nd darkroom space even thou it is not completed is already showing some benefits in regards to promoting film based photography. Go...

Been tinkering and struggling to get my 3rd sink frame build. Today it all finally took some shape. I plan to add a long bar around both si...

Spent my first day off work, painting all night. This time it was purple paint in the freezer (3 of them) half of darkroom #2. Cleaning and...

Did my bi weekly weighing thing tonight and found I was down to 236 pounds. That is minus 14 pounds from my start off weight of 250 about a...

Was browsing through a large book on Michelangelo and found this earlier example of the greatness (attributed to him in 1960). What a simpl...

This is a poem written on the back of a letter by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in the 1500s. "Time marches on and measures out the hours...

Always thought of this as a rather funny moment. especially "GERRY THE RED".  This capture is of me and a Burmese child after I s...

"Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will ...

Been thinking a lot lately of this Madonna painting by Raphael. Christ looks like a bit of a trouble making naughty boy but I love the way ...

On my rounds as I was climbing of the stairs, I thought of a nice little plan. What if I print a 20 Platinum-Palladium box set of of my fav...

Well the painting continues (doing shelves tonight) in darkroom #2. Feel like I am missing out on making prints or photos these days. Feel ...

“You can’t understand where you’re going if you don’t understand where you’ve been.”

Decided to try to set up a darkroom reading area as part of my darkroom #2 build. When your working a darkroom there are lots of down times...

from Facebook..... Gerry Yaum Just watched a very important film and so sadly beautiful , "Indian Horse...

Well I am continuing the work-build in darkroom #2.  4 of the first 5 nights of my week off work were spent painting, cleaning, building an...

So far so good, after 2 weeks (last Sunday). I weighed myself and was down to 242 lbs, down from 250 lbs.  Not sure how realistic this firs...

2 weeks ago I weighed myself here at work and I came in at 250 pounds (252 with clothes and shoes). That is the heaviest I have ever been. ...

Got hit with 2 running a stop sign tickets on the way to work tonight from a very zealous, unthinking machine like PEACE OFFICER. I feel li...

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a good new year. I have been busy working, spending time with mom and painting darkroom #2 (orange,...

Just watched this wonderfully inspirational video talk by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Please check it out, it is worth a few minutes of your tim...

“weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

Darkroom #2 is starting to look a bit like a real darkroom. Been painting black paint on the walls and roof areas near where I plan to plac...