So I do this every year around this time … I go through all my photos from the past year, some that have won awards, some that didn’t but I still think they’re awesome, and I recap them in this year-end blog special. Hopefully I’ve captured your favorites from the past year as well. That…
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“Don’t mind the weeds, the car’s still driveable…”
As we approach the deadline for many of my Competition Season entries, I’m still looking for an awesome infrared picture to get into the mix. Now with color infrared film, you definitely want some mixture of organic and non-organic subjects in the picture. You know … something with a little creeping ivy, or a bit…
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My 2019 Iowa State Fair entries are …
And the game begins. Iowa. The de facto start for my Competition Season 2019. Yesterday, I mailed a package of four prints to Des Moines. Last year, I claimed my first blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair when my photo The AGFA Bridge Over Ansco Lake claimed silk in the “Anything Goes” category. That…
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Chuck’s Photos of 2018
It’s Christmas Eve, and I take this time – in-between last minute shopping and the like – to look back on how my photos did this year. There were some successes and there were some should-have-been successes – as well as some pictures for Competition Season 2019. But these photos are tones I feel really…
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Infrared Horizon 787 is officially a Work of Art
Eight years ago, my blogger friend Teri Conroy (she’s the owner of the peaceful llama farm Wunsapana Farm in Altamont) gifted me a Rolleiflex Automat MX camera, a medium format twin lens reflex gem. I’ve shot dozens of rolls of print and slide film through it, and recently it’s been my camera weapon of choice…
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A brand new opportunity for Infrared Horizon 787
Several months ago, I was driving to Albany via Interstate 787, when I passed by the little clearing between Exits 7 and 6. It was a quick glance to my right, as it always is when I pass this spot on the highway. A little stream, with a scary nightmare tree along its shore. On…
Read MoreTrying to avoid the sunflower crutch
It’s the latest photography fad. You find out that there’s a field of sunflowers somewhere, and it’s within your driving distance. Oh, how fantastic a photo that would be. So you jump in your car and you drive to the sunflower field. Oh, these would make great photos, you think to yourself. You get there,…
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Mail Pouch Barn ghost sign meets infrared
Last Sunday, I drove to Dutchess County to photograph one of the few remaining Mail Pouch Barn ghost signs left in New York. The barn is part of a private property estate, so as long as I stay on the side of the road, I can photograph the building without violating the many “NO TRESPASSING”…
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My 2018 Photos in the Altamont Fair are …
Has it really been ten years? Yeah. Ten long years. Ten years ago, I entered my first four pictures into the Altamont Fair’s photography competition. Two years later, I claimed my first silks, when Midnight at the Palace Theater took second place in the black and white category; two other pictures, The AGFA Bridge Over…
Read MoreThe Children’s Bicycle Detention Center
There’s a very curious building on Green Island. It looks like a manufacturing complex, and it has a chain link fence surrounding it. And inbetween the building and the chain link fence? Children’s bicycles. Lots of them. Some are in various stages of repair, others look like they just rolled off the Huffy factory floor.…
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