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Me, using a typewriter. Photo by Eliza. Ogi – A search engine that attempts to exclude commercially driven results. Stumbled – StumbleUpon reborn. Random URLs. Just hit next. Paleobiology Database Navigator -…
Male Goldfinches visit our backyard feeder Enjoy this week's links. Gareth Wild parks in every spot – This is a level of nerdy that I aspire to. Romain Laurent – I dig…
Rhet Turnbull on Github describes OSXPhotos this way: Python app to export pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos…
Our tulips are opening up Now that I've reached 75 of these posts I want to spruce them up a little. I'm going to start posting every single Thursday and I'd like…
Wormhole – Send up to 10GB files, E2EE. Swipey Image Grids – Very cool use of SVG and practical application from Cassie Evans. Wednesdays in Marblehead – What a great photo project….
Jerome Carter: Film is expensive, and I readily admit that it is a self-indulgent exploration for no purpose other than the sheer existential joy it brings. That sounds about right.
Jordan McChesney, writing for PetaPixel: Then, around June of 2020, something changed. I decided to focus less on what my fellow photographers thought, and decided to focus more of my attention on…
If you can believe it, this is my first WIS post from in 2021. I've been keeping a small backlog of links that I've wanted to share but mostly I've shared links…
Iris: Iris is pragmatic and does not impose a certain workflow on you. Just point the app at your photo library on disk, and Iris will take it from there. We also…
Look at less photos, but look at each one with more intent. Given the accessibility of photography I can quickly look at 1,000 images from other photographers in a single sitting and…
In this post I'm going to detail out how I manage my photo library. I have changed my workflow countless times over the years and I have the deep battle scars to…
Jarob Ortiz, large format photographer for the National Park Service, on the latest LFPP: Read the whole job description, look exactly at what they were looking for. Then I spent 9 days,…
Cypress on WordPress Cypress is a simple way to create an online portfolio using the world's leading website builder WordPress. Artists from all mediums; painters, photographers, designers, sculptures – all need a…
Olli Thomson: As a photographer, what do I do now that I did not do when I was starting out? Or, to put it the other way round, what do I no…
Craig Mod, in a footnote of the post announcing his newsletter Huh: So my general philosophy of these social networks is to lean into what they do well — a bit of…
Flim: Flim is the best tool for iconographic search If you'll recall, back in January I linked to Mike Eckman's post re: cameras in movies. He mentioned someone on Reddit making their own…
Filmosaur*: Sure, I took a few photos here and there, but there’s no real creativity, no real meaning. Perhaps an occasional photo managed to capture something more than an utterly prosaic image,…
Katie Yang: My name is Katie and I shoot film (mostly expired, mostly in alleyways and cute cafes). This is where I chronicle my favorite places, favorite people and daily life in Taipei, Taiwan. A great blog to subscribe to. I like…
Photos Takeout (no doubt a play on the name of Google's own Takeout data service): Export photos and videos from Photos on Mac in yearwise, album-wise or moment/date-wise folders. Save them in…
Recorded January 27, 2021. In this special episode of Photowalking with Colin I cover some recent mistakes I've made with film and in the darkroom. It seems we (the collective we) mainly…
Om Malik: Prior to the Brownie, a photo trip to capture a far-flung environment was an expedition that often involved porters, mules, and explosions. The adventurous photographer would need to carry heavy…
I didn't want to get too deep into 2021 before I compiled my best of list for 2020. I usually begin to compile this list somewhere near the beginning of December and…
Mike Eckman: If you’re like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. I've been known to pause to figure out…
Laura Beltrán Villamizar, writing for NPR, describing the website Black Women Photographers: Her site, Black Women Photographers, is a forum where members can celebrate each other's work. It's also a platform both to…
With iOS 14.3 and the new iPhone, Apple has introduced an updated RAW image file format spec that extends on the already robust editing capabilities of RAW. They call it ProRAW. Ben…
Jack Baty, 11 years ago: I ran out of film while on a deserted island. I set the ISO incorrectly on my OM-1, overexposing the roll by 2 stops. I opened the…
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you may have seen that I was in the darkroom this weekend. In March 2020, I purchased this Ansco Speedex from a local hip…
I haven't made one of these lists in a little while, opting instead to publishing far more status updates to my site that include links. I go back and forth in my…
Jack Baty: The trouble, I'm finding, is that I don't really like the results I'm getting. I've shot maybe 20 rolls of film this year and a couple dozen large format negatives….
Om: One aspect of film that I have personally found appealing is the restrictions it imposes. Film photography is about constraints. It limits the frames at your disposal. It limits the capability…