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Photographers whose work I've recently been exposed to: William Eggleston, Consuelo Kanaga, Fan Ho. Peggy Anne Marsh's Camera List – Looking for a camera review? Peggy may very likely have reviewed it….
Michael McNeil: It's the first time I've used this film, so it was all a bit of an experiment. As usual, I did no research before I went out. I appreciate how…
Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020 Recorded in September 2020. Holy cow a new episode! Finally. Sorry for the wait for those that are subscribed to the podcast….
Dangerous photo ops are all the rage on social media. Countless stories over the last decade or so have hit the news about someone trying to get a selfie on a rock…
Warning!! I've only just hacked this solution together and I don't fully understand the ramifications of my actions yet. If there are any, I will update this post. First, a bit of…
VSCO revives Kodachrome – To make a Kodachrome-inspired photo filter VSCO went to some pretty great lengths. #filmloadchallenge – A fun internet challenge thingy that I took part in. Some of the…
Camerajunky (whose real name I cannot find, so perhaps this is likely on purpose): Of course there is also the fact that to get from the decisive moment to a print or…
Back in August I linked to Jim Grey's list of photography blogs. At the time I subscribed to nearly every single one with an RSS feed. He has since updated the list…
Jack Baty: I’m here to tell you that I can not make it work for me. There’s too much overhead in having to decide what to add to a synced collection and…
Untappd, the app that helps me track the beers I've had, liked, disliked, etc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary. I signed up to Untappd in 2014 and used it for a little…
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. That's the saying, right? What can also happen, though, is that by doing your hobby as work you can…
Marcus Peddle: Creating portfolio pages is a hassle on WordPress even though there are a number of photography templates. Adding photos is time consuming and I am rarely happy with the layout….
Instagram has been the place that Facebook jams all of its cloned-app-features into for the last few years. When it copied Snapchat it jammed all of the features into Instagram. And now,…
Great list this week. See other lists. Vicariously – See what Twitter looks like for other users. James Sowerby Mineralogy – Exquisite digital collection of Sowerby's painstaking illustrations. Great work and website….
Nick Clayton, in a beautifully written and photographed post on Casual Photophile: Walking with a camera is a moving meditation in which paramount importance is placed on being present in your surroundings….
This month Micro.blog is having a photo challenge to help spur some posts and creativity from the growing community there. When Jean asked for recommendations I threw bisect at her and she…
Joseph Irvin: Here’s a photo I took on a $3 roll of consumer film I picked up at my local grocery store, shot through a Pentax body that I paid $5 for…
Marcus Peddle, remarking on making Jim Grey's aforementioned list of film photography blogs: I’m honoured, but slightly embarrassed because most of my photography these days is digital. Still, a photo is a…
Jim Grey: It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films,…
Papyrus SNL – This skit recently came back to memory during a meeting at work. KEKS Lightmeter – I have a few cameras that I need to use my iPhone to meter…
A few days ago I came across Ton Zijlstra's post about trying out Obsidian. I didn't have the time to read it just then so I quickly stored it in Unmark (shameless…
I'm old, so I can still call them tweetstorms rather than threads. I just posted a tweetstorm regarding Photos for Mac on Catalina. I posted it there because I'm sort of hoping…
Big updates across all apps and services from Adobe coinciding with their 99u event. Notably, Creative Cloud went from 100GB to 1TB with no additional cost. I wish Apple would do something…
Flowers – May 2020 The above image is a digital positive created from a paper negative. It was handcut from Ilford photo paper, shot, developed by me last night. I also used…
Contact print Above is my first ever contact print. A contact print is when you lay a negative (film, paper, tin, glass) onto photo-sensitive paper and shine light onto it to expose…
I'll likely touch on this topic in an upcoming pandemic powered Podcast episode. Albert Dros, 2017: Sometimes the area where you live would not be motivating to photograph because you see these…
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…
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…
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…
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…