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I’ve photographed that deteriorating Olympic Bar sign on South Pearl Street with dozens of different films and with dozens of different angles. But, in all honesty, I’ve never photographed the sign the way I did last Thursday night. Background. I realize that the old Olympic Bar neon sign hasn’t worked for years.  Heck, there hasn’t…

I’m still trying to tweak this idea of a “stereo view card” recreation.  And I’ve got too many freakin’ variables to work with. Do I print the card images as color, or as sepia tones, or as straight black and white? Do I make the pair of images round or square or corner-rounded or domed?…

I’ve been playing with this LomoChrome Purple film now and again.  LomoChrome Purple is designed to be shot with a standard 35mm film camera, and it is supposed to replicate the look of infrared film.  And if I use different filters on the LomoChrome, it can create dreamlike, surrealistic viewscapes. Yesterday, I took a roll…

I’ve been trying to find a way to use this Revolog Tesla 2 film, to make a picture that will stand out and impress.  So far I’ve shot vintage signage with it… I’ve shot ghost signs with it… I’ve shot baseball pitchers with it. And no matter what I’ve photographed, the pictures are okay –…

This isn’t supposed to happen. I’m not supposed to have second-thoughts or third-thoughts about my pictures.  If I think my photos are winners, then I put them in competition and see how they do.  I’ll turn the photos into Dream Windows and sell them for charity.  I’ll promote the becheebers out of them in this…

I think I can do this.  I just have to find the right ingredient – the right catalyst – the right part of this project that will work best in this situation. Background. A while back, I tried running two rolls of 35mm film in my Agfa Clipper Special f/6.3 camera, which can handle 70mm…

So I loaded another roll of GAF Aerial film in one of my vintage cameras, and went out shooting last Sunday. Did I get a decent shot with film so old, it could have taken pictures of the Bicentennial? Click in today’s blog and you can see if all went well.