Of late, I’ve been using my camera gear to capture flowers and flora wherever possible, to strengthen my artistic chops and make myself a better photographer. This is not easy. You can’t just point a camera at a flower and hope it says cheese. Case in point. I recently had an opportunity to photograph a…
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What the Grasshopper Saw
I love photographing the tulips at TulipFest every year. But last weekend had intermittent rainstorms, and I decided to wait until Monday to get the shots I wanted. And the shots I wanted … included shooting with an old vintage lens attachment. Follow me on this.
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Making the Spirit of Life come alive
Do you remember last Monday’s post, when I went to Congress Park in Saratoga Springs for some photography? Yeah, I only took one roll of film (dumb me), and spent the next hour afterward watching the ducks and contemplating life. Not necessarily in that order, mind you… My goal at the time was to take…
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The Homemade View-Master® Concept Reel
So I took several of my stereo photos … brought back a toy from my childhood – and made my first-ever stereo viewing disc. Want to see it? Sure you do!
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Of late, I’ve been absorbed by the discipline of stereoscopic photography – creating three-dimensional images with film prints, and using some sort of viewer or printing technique to recreate the 3-D effect. The other day, I came across a vintage Albany-themed 3-D stereoview card from the “American Scenery” series, and although the print is somewhat…
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Taking stock on my clock
I’m currently trying anything and everything to take my mind off my broken foot. I have to. Because if I can at least focus on other things, then I can get through another day and get one day closer to healing or surgery or repair or whatever. So I’m trying to focus on other projects,…
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Flora
One of my goals for 2017’s Competition Season is to create a three-dimensional lenticular print with my camera gear. I’ve come up with several ideas and concepts, and depending on how things go, I hope to have something that will dazzle. And although I have had some successful lenticular “magic motion” prints have done well…
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The Half Moon on a Full Moon
So here I am at the top of a parking garage in downtown Albany on a Saturday night. Sounds like the beginning of a pop song, doesn’t it? No it doesn’t. 😀 I wanted to try something with my new Soviet mirror lens, the MC MTO-11, which is an 1100mm f/16 cadiatropic piece of glass. …
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The Instamatic Fireworks Experiment
So here’s the deal. I’ve been puttering around with cracked-open 126 Kodak Instamatic film for a few years. And so far, the results have been good enough. Yes, I’ve entered some shots in competition, but still… My problem is that I have to find a way to make the film’s limitations – the green framing…
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Beaches, birdies and bikinis
Look, I know I’ve been going on and on about my Florida vacation. But I need to focus on it so that I’m not focusing on other things. If you know what I mean. And that includes the remainder of the photos from my cameras. I spent Memorial Day at Flagler Beach, along Florida’s Central…
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