In Islam, we believe in God, and we believe 4 things about God. First, we believe that He exists. I spoke about that at some length last week, and while you might not have the same circuitous route to belief that I do, you probably do believe in God, or in some supreme deity: Jews …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Dead Batteries/Sunny 16
What are the odds that the batteries in two different cameras, batteries installed years apart, would fail at roughly the same time?
Six Pillars: 1(a)
So far, I’ve introduced the topic and talked a bit about belief in general. Now, at long last, let’s get into the Six Pillars of Belief. First off, we believe in God, and belief in Him leads us to everything else. Let me just dispel a myth right here at the start, above the fold, …
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘Got to Go’
they call me piggy i eatbrown sugar and whipped creamnothing fills my emptiness father says why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free?
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘THEM’
they take our landthey take our money we pay them taxesthey let our garbage rot they hammer your headthey wrap you in the flagthey dance, and shoutmessiah messiah messiah
Six Pillars – Belief, in general
For the next few weeks, God willing, I’ll be going through a sort of introduction to Islam, focused on the six pillars of belief. I’m basing all this (loosely) on Imam Nick Pelletier’s After Shahada Project classes at the Islamic Center of Irving, both to keep the information fresh in my head and heart, and to maybe give a …
JCH: 32 vs 40
Last week, I mentioned that I did some a/b shooting with the JCH Street Pan, loaded in the Lomo LC-A (32mm) and the Ricoh 35 ZF (40mm), and promised a followup… Before I get into it, remember that the LC-A underexposed everything by a couple of stops for some unknown reason (possibly old batteries) and …
