Aphera – Fast RAW photo editor for the Mac
Aphera: Aphera is the Raw photo editor built natively for Mac, with a from-scratch imaging pipeline and a workflow designed to disappear. Built by Latent Co. (aforelinked) which includes Ryan Carver as…
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Iris Photos 1.0
Tyler Hall: The first version, from November 2020, was called AntiPhoto. The name was a mood. I had tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered across drives and old phone backups,…
Nikunj Kothari on “Token Anxiety”
Nikunj Kothari on the anxiety created by agentic workflows: The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month’s workflow feel prehistoric. Codex…
Hedley Wright on the Frames app
Hedley Wright provides a short tutorial on using the Frames app to add EXIF data to your scanned film photos for importing into apps like Adobe Lightroom: For many film photographers, this…
A Fence by Jasper Tandy
Jasper Tandy shares A Fence: There's no reason to take this, or to share it. […] I'm always drawn to piles of things. I don't know why. I've driven past this fence…
Whither Latent Co.?
Naz Hamid, writing on his personal blog, about forming a small company called Latent Co.: Driven by the creative tooling we’ve cut our teeth on and drawing on our product and imaging…
Andy Adams on photographer’s websites
Andy Adams: For some reason, years ago, we all agreed to spend most of our online time looking at photography on a canvas smaller than a cocktail napkin. It’s awful when you…
Diversions #9: The garlic of March
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth's tilt is such that as…
Diversions #8: Icy gin film
It has been a long, cold, mostly icy winter. I'm not sure if age makes this feeling more acute, but the data seem to show that this winter has been colder than…
Thinking about my use of color film
(The following is a very quick mind dump. Unedited. Raw.) I prefer black and white over color film for most of my photographic work. I do shoot color film. I mostly like…
“Stop calling it work” – Cedric Raguenaud
Cedric Raguenaud argues that.. "When we label our photographic pursuits as “work,” we unconsciously impose constraints and expectations that belong in the professional world. Suddenly, we feel pressured to maintain visibility, chase…
Pixelfed is about to have a moment
This morning I checked in on Pixelfed, the ActivityPub-powered Instagram alternative. I had created a profile on an instance in 2021 and I check in from time-to-time to see how it is…
Craig Mod on shooting film
Craig Mod in Ridgeline Transmission 189 Tōkaidō on Film — People: One of my many todos post-walk has been to dig through the film I shot while walking the Tōkaidō in May….
A conversation with Keith Taylor – Photographer and Printmaker
Keith Taylor is a photographer and printmaker with over 40 years of experience in the darkroom. His personal work includes multiple darkroom mediums including gelatin silver, platinum palladium, and his passion polymer…
Diversions #1: I have no business owning this camera
This is the first edition of an all-new series of posts and future email newsletter that will be part of a new membership on my personal website. Diversions is the central hub…
An aerial comparison of Carbondale, PA in 1948 and 2023
Sometime near 1948 Fiore Cerra took an aerial photograph of Carbondale, Pennsylvania that captured how very different a place it was just 75 years ago or so. I live near Carbondale and…
Photos from Chisholm Vineyards in Feburary 2020
For many years now Eliza and I have preferred to slow down and take our time on road trips rather than feeling rushed to get to our destination. We like to visit…
Using Wavelength to chat with darkroom printers
Update July 1, 2024: Wavelength is shutting down July 31, 2024. For the past few days I've been testing out Wavelength – a group messaging app that is currently only available on…
Glass observations – an update
One year ago I wrote Glass observations, a post wherein I wrote about the state of sharing photos on the web, and what I thought about the photo sharing app Glass. This…
Photographers be aware, WordPress may convert your JPEGs to WebP soon
This isn't a "the sky is falling" post. However, photographers that use WordPress should be well aware of upcoming changes regarding image file formats. Sarah Gooding, writing for WP Tavern: WebP, an…
What I saw somewhat recently #93: April 23, 2022
Started some seedlings I've been spending a decent amount of time on a free word game (coming soon) and the redesign of my website. But that doesn't mean I haven't collected a…
Christopher Parsons’ genius photography Shortcut
Christopher Parsons: The Shortcut is pretty simple: when I run it, it maximizes the brightness of my iOS device and opens the Glass app. If you download the Shortcut it’s pretty easy…
Video: Film photo series review The Skateboarders 2021
https://youtu.be/TzmvE1Eq9HY Last night's Twitch stream is now available on YouTube w/ chapters.
Audio: Starting and finishing
Recorded on February 18, 2022 Join me as I scan some photos and chat about starting things and finishing things. Are you dealing with the same thing? Write a comment! (Audio clip…
What I saw somewhat recently #90: January 6, 2022
At a recent distillery tasting Wow, 90 of these. I hope at or before 100 I go back through them all and pull forward some of my favorites. I hope most of…
What I saw somewhat recently #89: December 17, 2021
Penelope says gm. Phone-sized Faraday Bags – Matt Blaze tests some ways to block every signal coming out of your phone. Techie stuff. World Chess Championship Game 6 – I play chess…
Video: Making paper negatives with a bedroom camera obscura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ySwOuYiWs A video on YouTube walking through a project I did in March-April 2020.
Video: Sandbridge Beach Houses
https://youtu.be/HzR71GdA\_a8 Spend 30-odd minutes with me going through each photo from the Sandbridge Beach House series. This was fun to do, I might do more of them. Also available on Instagram. If…
What I saw somewhat recently #88: November 24, 2021
Rainbow trout fry The above photo is a small Rainbow Trout fry that I pulled from the creek in my yard. It looks like it may have had a run-in with a…
Datafilm – Log your film photo EXIF data
Today I stumbled across Datafilm, a free iOS app for film photographers to log their photo EXIF data on the go, via Japan Camera Hunter's blog. The app is being made by…