Jim Goodin - Analog Photography Again!

Hello I'm Jim Goodin.  I returned to analog (film, silver based) photography after many years away in December 2020 after initially getting inspired by discovering the Lomography community.  Having historically worked in small format (35 mm) though beginning with in my return using my Nikon F, Lomography Diana F+ and a Smean 8M, I decided I wanted to get into 4x5 and soon purchased a @1990ish Calumet studio monorail that I boldly took outdoors.  Awkward at first and taking upwards to 40 min on my first exposures, over time I've learned a lot and gotten rather comfortable with the format.  Recently I've become fascinated with pinhole photography, initially adapting to my Calumet and later a DIY from cardstock and 4x5 box ends I was inspired to make after reading an article on Emulsive.org by Tony Warren.  I've perfected this camera and to a degree made it my own and am enjoying the simplicity and the unpredictable of the outcome, learning to see beyond a ground glass or view finder!