About

I’m Mike Hall. I live in Portland, OR. I do IT for work. I do photography, movies, and metal for entertainment.

Music

Probably listening to something from this list these days:

YOB, High on Fire, OM, Mutoid Man, Converge, Cave In, Mastodon, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, The Oh Sees, Red Fang, ISIS

Tools and things

I do my ebook reading on a Boox Onyx 7. It’s an Android device. You could stick to their book management ecosystem, but I prefer to have a subscription to Bookfusion, which hosts your epubs in the cloud and has Android, iOS, and iPadOS clients.

My daily driver camera is an OM System OM-3. It’s a Micro Four Thirds camera with a lot of in-camera creative control and a small footprint wrapped in a vintage body everyone mistakes for a film camera. I keep my pictures on pix.puddingtime.org. Here are some recent OM-based galleries from a trip to France and a trip to San Francisco. I used to be a pretty big Fujifilm enthusiast, and still admire their cameras, but the OM-3 hits a sweet spot for me in terms of in-camera control and small size. It was super easy to walk around France with a fixed lens on the body most of the time and a small, useful zoom in my sling.

My second camera is a Fujifilm X-Half. I grab it when I’m going somewhere I’ve already shot a lot and I’m after a fresh perspective, or for weekend trips where I just want to grab snapshots.

Colophon

This site is built with Hugo using a custom theme that has drifted quite far from its tinycss base. It’s hosted on Cloudflare pages. When I need to edit a post I am probably using the hx editor.