Category: Just For Fun

Posted on by Clay Duda Posted in Just For Fun, Mostly FIlm

Wine Parties, Weddings, Beach Vacations, and More from the Long Lost Film Archives of Strangers

The feet of an unknown photographer sitting poolside. Photo from an undeveloped roll of film found in an Olympus Stylus Zoom I bought on eBay in 2024. Photo by Anonymous.
The feet of an unknown photographer sitting poolside. Photo from an undeveloped roll of film found in an old film camera I bought on eBay in 2024. Photographer unknown.

I think I learned it from my Mom — I have a hard time passing up a good deal. For me that’s especially true when it comes to cheap vintage film cameras. Sometimes I fix them up and take photos, other times I just test them out and sell them on eBay to fund my film photography habit. Every once and a while one of the old cameras I buy will have a roll of undeveloped film still sitting inside, forgotten from a time long ago.

Over the past couple years I’ve taken these abandoned rolls of film and done pretty much what the original owners did. I tossed them in a drawer and forgot about them.

Until now.

A few weeks ago I came across @anthonys_lost_film on Instagram, a place where this random internet stranger develops and shares found rolls of film just like the ones I had sitting in a drawer collecting dust. And I thought it was a pretty cool idea. Anthony’s work inspired me to develop my own rolls of found film, and these are the results.

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Posted on by Clay Duda Posted in Book Reviews, Just For Fun

A Brief Review of the Book ‘Endurance’ by Alfred Lansing

Frozen in ice and frozen in time, an iconic voyage aboard the Endurance to the Antarctic Beyond.
Frozen in ice and frozen in time, an iconic voyage aboard the Endurance to the Antarctic Beyond.

What’s the point of reading a book when you already know the ending? Rarely is a story so compelling and unbelievable that it couldn’t past muster as a work of fiction. No one would believe the odysseys captured in the pages of Endurance if they weren’t true. The fact that 28 men sailed into the heart of the Antarctic ice pack, had their ship crushed in heavy flows, fought off the elements and madness for more than a year existing on the ice, and all escaped and lived to tell about it is, quite frankly, beyond belief.

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Posted on by Clay Duda Posted in Just For Fun, One Shot

One Shot: The First Halibut of 2023

My client Elizsabeth caught this 64-pound halibut in Lower Cook Inlet on May 6, 2023. Photo by Clay Duda.
My client Elizsabeth caught this 64-pound halibut in Lower Cook Inlet on May 6, 2023.

The first halibut on my charter boat the Diamond Cape this summer was a 64-pounder caught by Liz from West Virginia on May 6, 2023. It put up a good fight. She chased it around the back of the boat for a good 20 minutes before it came to the surface, saw the boat, and took a dive back to the bottom. After another long fight, the beast finally hit the back deck on a cool spring morning in Lower Cook Inlet.

Early season halibut fishing is off to a good start this year in Homer, Alaska. If you’re looking to book a trip, there are still seats available in May with Homer Ocean Charters.