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Just a little jam on the Jupiter-6, was mostly testing out the El Capistan and ended up making this. I really love how the pedal handles high feedback without getting super distorted :)

The Jupiter-6... where to begin. It's hard to make it sound bad. It's buttery, warm but with a cold icy shrill if you want it to. It's always such a joy to make patches on. My only wish is it had a stereo voice panning field rather than mono out.

Found this beautiful spider feasting on some prey in his web!

I did a test of the minimum focusing distance of my macro setup on my GS-1!

1. 110mm macro lens

2. 110mm macro lens + g-36 extension tube (I believe it is 1:1 macro? Or 1:2?)

3. 110mm macro lens + g-36 + nisi 77mm close-up diopter

Super excited to get this close on medium format, something that is normally very difficult!

Back in September, 2025 my brother died suddenly. I had only just really started to get into medium format film photography, having bought a Bronica GS-1 in July, 2025. I had only shot my first ever roll of 35mm in January, 2025, so the hobby overall was new to me, though I'd shot digital for years.

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I had gotten him into film photography, he occasionally sent me b&w photos of him using an old Kodak brownie and photographing cars. He didn't know much about the technical side of photography, but he loved the vintage look of film and was just so excited to learn. It was so fun to see my hobbies rub off on him. A reminder how similar we really were.

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Then in September, a Thursday, he passed suddenly, surgery complications. Barely into his 30s and his life cut short. My only full blood brother gone just like that.

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I was devastated. I'll never forget the way my whole body went numb and locked up when I heard the news. The day after he died I picked up my Fujifilm digital camera at my family's farm and did macro photography in a numb grief as tears strung down my face, photographing bugs and plants and thinking of all the living things around that outlasted him. The Fall air of Friday that he never got to breath.

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I then couldn't do photography after that. It felt like my whole soul had been sucked out. I felt unmotivated, uncreative. Like I lost my vision, eye for cinematography and framing. Something had broken in my mind. Nothing seemed interesting to photograph, and to me, photography had become a distant fading memory of a hobby I once chased and loved.

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Today, over 9 months later, I finally picked up my Bronica again, and drove out into rural Nebraska to shoot a roll of Kodak Gold. I had this passion again, the drive to do something with myself. I still struggle to see the world in a creative light. But I had to go out and say, to hell with it all. I don't need to be a good photographer to shoot photos, I never was and I don't think I ever will be. But it's not about that. Photography is not about being the best. It's about being yourself. I don't have to just do it for fun. Now I can do it for my brother, like he is there with me.

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Never doubt yourself.

I had never seen a white brown recluse before, so I was confused at first when I saw this spider at work, before realizing she was very pregnant!

Laura Palmer's theme* sorry!

Synth is a 1989 Yamaha SY77. Not quite the same synthesizer (original was likely a Roland D-50) but similar digital synth era. I tried to make a patch very similar :)

Sampled a Prophet-5 sound at the crunchiest, lowest sample rate into the Mirage (lets you get a much longer 6 second sample time), then put it through the lovely onboard analog filter to make it sound warm again.

Run thru Empress Echosystem and Empress Reverb.

The more I explore this thing, I realize just how much it sounds like a PPG Wave given its 8-bit sample rate and analog filter, you can get almost wavetableish with multisampling. Alternatively you can just sample a PPG Wave into the Mirage too 😉

Sampled direct in, a 2.2 second snippet from a song I recorded a few weeks ago on a Roland Jupiter-6. Run through Empress Echosystem and Empress Reverb.

Absolutely love the lo-fi sound you get out of this thing. The analog filter is so buttery too.

It has a really complex workflow using hex system number codes to access parameters, but it has a handy cheat sheet. It's a manual consulting synth for sure.

And got some amazing fursuit photos out of it!

Suit by Miggscreations

Photos by ForestTheFloof

my bluesky!

Found this battery in an Ensoniq ESQ-1.