About seven years ago, I used the iconic slide film Kodachrome in its last year that the film could be developed.ย I photographed bridges and trees and winter scenes and other cool images. Then, in December 2010, the last processing plant in the world – the only one capable of handling the various chemicals used…
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Niagara Falls, Quebec City, and 5-year-old Kodachrome shots
Now what, do you ask, inspired this little blog headline? Between 2009 and 2010, I shot with Kodachrome film.ย I photographed with whatever fresh (or sorta-fresh) Kodachrome I could get my mitts on, and got as much of it developed before Dwayne’s Photo (the last place that could develop the iconic film in color) stopped…
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Dream Window 13: Carissima and Kodachrome
In July of 1981, I attended a five-week pre-freshman orientation program at Hamilton College.ย Between that summer and the late spring of 1985, I was a college student at one of the “Little Ivies.”ย There were days when I felt about as out of place as Willy Loman in a summer stock production of Spamalot;…
Read MoreShooting Kodachrome film in 2012
Yes, I am fully aware that getting those nice bright colors and greens of summers with Kodachrome film is currently impossible.ย The last rolls were developed in December 2010 by Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas.ย Kodak’s not making the developing chemicals any more.ย And even if they did, you can’t develop the stuff at home.ย …
Read MoreThe Purple Sunrise
It was December 2010.ย I was shooting my final rolls of Kodachrome film, and in the brutal, bitter, icy winter – a winter that was so cold, my frozen breath spelled out my curse words in cursive – I tried to capture some images.ย This was taken with decade-past-its-prime Kodachrome 25 film, a film that…
Read MoreA new Kodachrome film documentary… and you can watch it right here!
One of my favorite photographic websites is PetaPixel, it’s where I can get a ton of news about digital and film photography. And yesterday, they provided a link to a Kodachrome film documentary – a documentary that talks about the last time, in December of 2010, that the iconic slide film could be developed. The…
Read MoreCompetition #8 – the New York Sheep and Wool Photo Contest
My TU blog buddy Teri Conroy suggested I enter this competition, and you know what I always say… bloggers support bloggers. I was allowed to enter a maximum of five images in the upcoming New York Sheep and Wool Festival Photography Contest, and I submitted all five in the “objects” category.ย Even though it is…
Read MoreKodachrome film could become “Kodachrome: The Movie.”
Remember last year when I – along with thousands of other shutterbugs – took the last photos with Kodachrome film and sent them off to Dwayne’s Photo?ย You would have thought that Parsons, Kansas was the greatest tourist attraction in the Midwest; people were driving from all over the nation to get their film to…
Read MoreResults of my entries into the 2011 Altamont Fair Photography Contest
Tuesday afternoon, 5:00 p.m.ย Everything else in my busy day has been completed.ย Nothing to hold me back.ย Now I need to know. The answer to life, the universe and everything? The sound of one hand clapping? The air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Nah… I already know those things.ย It’s 42, the beginning of…
Read MoreCompetition #3 – The 2011 Altamont Fair Photography Contest
It’s my third year of trying.ย It’s my third year of competing.ย And as you can imagine… I’m not giving up.ย Even though I’ve gone 0-for-10 on the two regionals earlier this year, those exclusions doesn’t hurt as badly as my going 0-for-8 at Altamont.ย Eight photographs over a two-year span; eight cold-blooded, cold-hearted rejections.…
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