Tag: black-and-white

  • Panther’s Falls 2 – December 2020

    Panther’s Falls 2 – December 2020 I’m pretty happy with how this exposure, and the previous one, came out. This one was handheld, f/11, about 1/60s, on HP5+. I have a fairly steady hand but 1/60s is about my limit personally. If you want to see much larger versions of these digital scans you can…

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  • Panther’s Falls – December 2020

    Panther’s Falls – December 2020 As a kid I’d walk to these falls every chance I got. I had many bear encounters, caught tons of snakes (even though my mother forbade it), and swam a bunch. It was nice to visit them after nearly a few decades of being away. I shot this on Saturday…

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  • Podcast: Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020

    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. I’ve recorded dozens of episodes that may well never see the light of day – I sort of explain why in this episode.…

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  • Exposed root – April 2020

    Exposed root – April 2020 If you walk through the same forest for months and months – you begin to notice the details you’d normally miss. Also on Flickr, Instagram.

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  • My first 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 the paper. You then develop that paper into a positive print (or what you’d think of as a normal photo). This is a milestone in…

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  • Flowers – May 2020

    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 it as the subject for my first contact print. You can read the behind-the-scenes story here on my blog. Also More also on…

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  • Birds on wires – January 2020

    Birds on wires – January 2020 Somehow these images got clogged into my drafts and never published. These pigeons roost above and below a nearby highway bridge. They were enjoying the sunset when I captured these images.

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  • 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…

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  • 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.

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Studebaker – March 2020

    Studebaker – March 2020 A few more medium format film exposures. These were also taken with the Ansco Speedex. This old Studebaker sits a stone’s throw away from a river that runs directly in front of our place. From the stories I’ve gathered it was sitting across the street for a few decades before being…

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  • Sweeney’s Bench – Scranton, PA – March 2020

    Sweeney’s Bench – Scranton, PA – March 2020 This being my very first “serious” medium format film exposure using the Ansco Speedex 6.3 – a camera from the 1930s that is fully manual. I’m extremely happy with this image. Even though I was using Kodak Tri-X 400 film that expired in the early 1980s, the…

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  • Podcast: Culm dunes – October 2019

    22mm ∙ f/22 ∙ 1/15s ∙ ISO 100 22mm ∙ f/20 ∙ 1/40s ∙ ISO 100 22mm ∙ f/20 ∙ 1/50s ∙ ISO 100 Culm dunes – October 2019 You can listen behind the scenes as I make these photographs in an episode of Photowalking with Colin titled Culm dunes. I’d been wanting to use…

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  • Chris Stapleton, Bethel Woods, New York – July 2019

    Chris Stapleton, Bethel Woods, New York – July 2019 Eliza and I had the opportunity to see Chris Stapleton at the infamous Woodstock grounds. Though not a fan of country, per se, he was amazing.

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    In 2017 I was grateful to receive a guided tour of Scranton Craftsmen – an interesting steel and concrete fabrication business. I learned a lot.

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  • Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA – November 2016

    Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA – November 2016

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  • Broome Street Bar, SOHO, New York City – January 2014

    Broome Street Bar, SOHO, New York City – January 2014

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  • Empire State Building from Herald Square, New York City – November 2011

    Empire State Building from Herald Square, New York City – November 2011

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  • Brooklyn New York – August 2014

    Brooklyn New York – August 2014

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  • Penn Avenue at night, Scranton, PA – February 2016

    Penn Avenue at night, Scranton, PA – February 2016

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  • Barn in black and white

    Barn in black and white

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