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going to school

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Tokyo, 2007.12.29

going to school

going to school

This is one of my favorite from 2007. I take this to be either a whole family taking the girls to school, or two families each with a single daughter that were walking side by each.

The washed-out yellow color comes from a Y2 filter that I was using in conjuncture with what is currently being sold as "Centuria" film here in Japan. It's not the old Konica Centuria, though, which was a lovely film; it's relabeled Kodak Gold -- a lackluster film with poor color rendition that I find suitable only for shooting with a wacky filter and my fire-and-forget Olympus rangefinder.

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Selfish leaders increase risk by placing themselves first. It's a fundamental mistake to assume that what is good for us personally is mutually exclusive to what is good for everyone. That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership.

—Col. Eric G. Kail