Repost: Brent Simmons on what happens after a pandemic
👉 Brent Simmons: I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.
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Podcast: Photographing Mic & Nics – January 2020
Mic & Nics Photographing Mic & Nics – January 2020 Recorded January 15, 2020 You may recognize this building. I wrote about how I practiced my light metering with it. Well, I also recorded myself on a different day shooting it with very expired film. The filmstrip In this episode of the podcast I chat about using a…
A few houseplants – April 2020
A few houseplants – April 2020 On Sunday morning I decided to quickly set up a photo shoot for my current houseplants. Here are just a few that I liked. The others didn't come out the way I wanted due to a few limitations. So I'm hoping to do another photo shoot in the near future.
What I saw somewhat recently #63: April 23, 2020
A few links to expand (or shrink) your mind. WildEarth Live Safaris – Two 3-hour safaris live broadcast on YouTube daily. I've watched one completely through and plan to watch more of them. They are relaxing and informative. 98.css – CSS stylesheet to make all HTML elements styled as if they exist within Windows 98. Fun. Planet of…
Over the river – March 2020
Taken with Ansco Speedex on expired Kodak Tri-X 400 Over the river – March 2020 I love how this tree hangs over the river. I've photographed it many times and assume I will many times more. This particular image is a re-scan of a negative. I learned a slightly different way to scan and edit the resulting digital…
What I saw somewhat recently #62: April 17, 2020
A few things I bumped into recently: Studio Ghibli Backgrounds – These are great. Reminds me to watch these again. Jonathan Yeo's Live Portraits – I hadn't seen Yeo's work before this, but I caught a retweet from Brian Cox and I've been keeping up with his Live Portraits. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are already online. Part…
Rail side – March 2020
Taken with Ansco Speedex on expired Kodak Tri-X 400 Rail side – March 2020 I'd forgotten to publish this one. It is from the same expired roll I shot Sweeny's Bench and the Studebaker on.
Common Merganser takes flight triptych
Common Merganser takes flight triptych – April 2020 Sort of a triptych I suppose. I wish I had set the camera to a much faster shutter speed but I just didn't have the time.
Instagram’s TOS
Allen Murabayashi, CEO of PhotoShelter, regarding Instagram's TOS: The language is typical of many photo sharing sites (including PhotoShelter), so in that sense it’s unremarkable. The company needs the ability to redisplay images, and wants to be able to have, for example, an image appear in the app, within an Instagram Story, and on the website without having…
Wolfram Physics Project
Stephen Wolfram continues to make me feel lazy: Today we’re officially launching our Physics Project. From here on, we’ll be livestreaming what we’re doing—sharing whatever we discover in real time with the world. (We’ll also soon be releasing more than 400 hours of video that we’ve already accumulated.) I’m posting all my working materials going back to the…
Wildlife from recent quarantine walks – March/April 2020
Looks to me like a red and grey squirrel mix Male Cardinal Male Mallard Sparrow taking flight Freshly flowered Forsythia Possible bilateral gynandromorph Cardinal (male and female) Nuthatch Chipmunk Male Garter snake Common Merganser Turkey Vulture Nutchatch Wildlife from recent quarantine walks – March/April 2020 I've been shooting mostly digital during our as-often-as-possible nature walks near our home….
What I saw somewhat recently #61: April 9, 2020
Some links for your edification: Chuck's Astrophotography – Amazing astrophotography from Chuck Ayoub on Instagram. See also, him capturing Comet ATLAS on Youtube. See also, Comet ATLAS. Camera Work – A quarterly magazine published in 1903-1915 by Alfred Steiglitz. It was an attempt to raise the level of discourse about photography as an art form. It worked. I've…
Creating a bedroom camera obscura and making a paper negative
I'd been wanting to make my own camera for several months. Something simple like a shoe box pinhole camera. But then quarantine happened and I stumbled across Brendan Barry's YouTube video about turning a room in your house into a camera obscura – and making a paper negative and positive print. I thought with the quarantine and all…
Podcast: Seven Tubs in winter on 35mm
My friend Carl, painting plein air oil, on 35mm Seven Tubs in winter on 35mm Recorded January 13 2020. In spring 2018 Eliza and I walked Seven Tubs and I photographed the area on my Google Pixel 2 XL. On that visit I created a vivid, punchy set of photos that showcased the pop of color we saw…
35mm film in a Medium Format camera
Ansco Rediflex, expired 35mm Fujicolor Superia 400 35mm film in a Medium Format camera From the same roll as my 2020 avatar are these select exposures of 35mm film hacked into a medium format Ansco Rediflex. What you're looking at isn't normal. The Ansco Rediflex is a medium format camera which, when invented in the 1930s, was to…
Indoor Voices
Remember when I opined that blogging may see a surge with all of this quarantine stuff? Indoor Voices – a new blog (on blogspot!) from over 80 quarantined writers. Kottke covers it far better than I can here. A few weeks ago, writer Kyle Chayka Tweeted “I predict a great Blogging Renaissance,” to which also writer Kevin Nguyen…
Podcast: Talking gear and settings for shooting film – December 2019
Canon Rebel G, expired Kodak Color Gold 400 Canon Rebel G, expired Kodak Color Gold 400 Talking gear and settings for shooting film – December 2019 Recorded December 24, 2019. In this episode of the podcast I discuss the gear I took on this trip, why I have them, the settings I use, how I use my bag,…
My 2020 avatar
Shot on 35mm film retro fitted into an Ansco Rediflex Quarantine has me trying all sorts of experiments. One of which is retro fitting 35mm film into an old Ansco Rediflex medium format camera. It produces some interesting results (I'll post a few in the coming days). But I've wanted my 2020 avatar to be on taken on…
Truck @ 40mph – March 2020
Konica Autoreflex T, expired Kodak Pan X film Truck @ 40mph – March 2020 Like all of my photos, there is a story behind this one. My boss gave me a camera as a gift. And I shot some really old expired film through it. This was one of my favorites from the roll. More on the podcast…
NetNewsWire is the best RSS workflow on any platform
John Gruber: It’s exactly what I want in an RSS reader, and it has changed my daily reading habits significantly. It is, in a way, a return to what NetNewsWire was before the NewsGator acquisition of it and FeedDemon. Both NNW and FD were my go-to ways of subscribing to every interest, person, web site I had in…
Podcast: My first day shooting only film – December 2019
Canon Rebel G, expired Kodak Color Gold 400 Canon Rebel G, expired Kodak Color Gold 400 Canon Rebel G, expired Kodak Color Gold 400 My first day shooting only film – December 2019 Recorded on December 23, 2019. This episode is packed with nostalgia for me – even though it was only 3 months ago. It was my…
Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere is simply waiting…
Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere is simply waiting…
Penn Yan, New York – March 2020
Ansco Speedex • Ilford HP5+ 400 Penn Yan, New York – March 2020 This is a frame from my very first roll of new black and white film. It was taken on Ilford HP5+ 120 film stock. This is very forgiving film from my newbie perspective. Eliza and I enjoyed a sunny weekend in the Finger Lakes isolating…