I won’t attempt to report on the events of the evening. The good news is that it was a lot of fun. Check out that DeLorean.

The bad news—for me, at least—is that I screwed up nearly all of the lec­ture pic­tures. One of the more excit­ing parts of the pho­to­graphic process is the moment when you pull the film out of the dryer and slap it down on the light table. Unfor­tu­nately tonight, a great amount of swear­ing was directed at the mag­ni­fy­ing loupe. The lec­tur­ers are clearly in the plane of focus, yet they still look fuzzy. Finally I checked my cam­era bag and con­firmed that I am stu­pid. My 105mm lens has a spe­cial soft-focus fea­ture for por­trai­ture, which I had unwit­tingly left on at a rather extreme level. This is sur­pris­ing because I never use it.