judson@Cabinet📷

@wandering-judson.bsky.social

He/him. Evolved from dilapidated shed to a person. Enjoyer of music in most formats (fuck 8 track). FGCs are cool (Primarily Xrd Ram main but I dabble in other games) Idiot with two cameras. Used to travel a lot more. Food is really good.

Got the last roll of Montreal film back. A roll that I risked by using the Olympus' built in light meter, which I had not yet tested. The fact that it turned out well is great since it means I can probably trust that. These shots were mostly around NDG.

Some nice street are on the side of a building.I just liked this large parking/loading area. Not that common in a mostly residential area.Blue skies, white clouds, interesting wall. That is about it.While I am sure this is for loading and unloading a truck, it is still funny seeing the doors that far above the ground.

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Very excited. I shot seven rolls of film at UMAD. It has been a minute since I have shot high ISO film so I was not sure if any of them were going to turn out. Suffice to say from these previews (waiting for the download... big files), I am happy.

Third Strike on a cab.Mark Bolero vs Krackatoa on Xrd at UMAD 2026.Soul Calibur 6 grand finals at UMAD 2026Guilty Gear Accent Core +R game play happening at UMAD 2026

It’s been interesting to see whose mind immediately went to Rocky Horror and whose mind immediately went to Muppets and whose mind immediately went to Clue and whose mind immediately went to SPAAAACE and on and on and on because no matter what age you are he’s iconic and very special to you

SAYONARAAAA!! That's the end of #UMAD2026! Thank you all for making this year's the BIGGEST and BESTEST yet! We'll be sending prize winnings out over the next few days - if you placed in the money and didn't fill out the form, let us know! VODs going up now! 📸: judson

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The final day of UMAD 2026. Unsurprisingly, 0-2 in +R (even though I picked top tier Bridget). Watched SamSho, 2XKO, KOF15, and Tokon, to name a few, and played a few sets of Xrd, doing my best to maintain the tradition of Xrd casuals always go to the end of tournaments.

Casuals before the noon bracket opened up. Practically predawn for gamers. Still, our 24 person pool with four setups took 40 minutes to run. Bringing this up for no reason whatsoever.French player Wawa won 2XKO today, beating Devillion twice. It was fun to see.After the cabs were used for VSAV (on MiSTer) and Third Strike (on original hardware), they finally busted out the true fighting game, Neo Turf Masters. The purist of games. Just avoid the bunker.We took a crowd picture with the staff before the Tokon top 8 (which was won by Wawa after a reset in Grand Finals). UMAD was in a lovely venue and the people were great. My apologies to the person on the right who was just out of frame.

Day 2 of UMAD. Started off with some casuals against Arcfieri and then France. Then watched a lot of bbtag while photographing top eight. Then went 1-2 in mbaacc where I faced France again. Then played some, photographed a lot. Here are some samples. Bonus picture in reply to this.

Third Strike on head to head cabs. Sparkle Lynn, Arcfieri, and France (the country) at an Xrd setup.People seem to still really enjoy 2XKO at UMAD. I hope ti see it there next year too.Soul Calibur VI grand finals. MindWolf (Player 1) got the runback from Winners Finals against NaizakiNomac and won the reset. It was great to watch.

Got another roll of film back that I shot with the new camera. I really like how this one came out because Ektar is know for saturated colors and it really shows here. At first glance I thought there was weird light leak giving that red color in the bottom right. Nope, just the bark of madrones.

A picture of Deception Pass Bridge from the northwest side. The sky is blown out and  just bright white from well lit clouds. The bridge and evergreens are quite green. The bottom right corner has some madrone trees and the film has made their red bark really stand out to the point where it looks like a some error with the film.

Technology is funny sometimes. Air Canada app tells me I need to update if I want to use it. Phone is too old to run updated version. Have the outdated app still. Apparently it can still give me notifications that my bag is loaded/unloads etc. I am in Montreal.

There can be some fun surprises when you realize you did not fully unpack your back from your previous trip. In this case, I found a roll of film I never shot at Frosty that happened to be one that I wanted to bring. So I have an extra. Yay.