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…
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Repost: Brent Simmons on what happens after a pandemic
👉 Brent Simmons: I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.
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…
Magic Leap blaming COVID-19 for why it has to lay off 1,000 people is just a terrible bit of messaging. They have raised nearly $3B. And they can’t raise any more right now. And the FB deal fell through. So they have no choice regardless of this pandemic.
The horrific and avoidable loss of life notwithstanding I believe many will wish quarantine life to continue when things begin to open up once again. I know I may be among them.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Programming is a super power.
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…
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…
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…
I’ve crossed a big milestone with my photography during quarantine. I’ve moved on from the how, and am now focused on the why.
As I mentioned, I created a PHP script that I can run on my Mac to move thousands of files into new directories based on their created date. It extremely fast compared to my previous solution. If anyone would like to improve it, please do!
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…
Writing PHP for the first time in well over a year. I need to move thousands of photographs on the Mac and automatically sort them into folders by their created date. In the past I used complex apps to do this. Turns out a few lines of code is all I need.
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…
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…
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…
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…
I had no idea Kenny Rogers was a large format film photographer. Even in the Hall of Fame for it. Gorgeous work. Talented man.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…