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Prior to my final four rolls of Kodachrome, which were shot over Christmas weekend, I shot two rolls of Kodachrome in early December – one for the lighting of the Christmas tree in the Empire State Plaza, and one in mid-December to complete the Albany Last Run. While the shots from the tree lighting didn’t…

Okay, let’s get one thing straight right off the bat.  There is no more development of Kodachrome film. But what if you were still able to take pictures that looked like Kodachrome shots – albeit digitally? Now I know there’s various plugins for Photoshop and other digital image software suites that can simulate the saturated…

Nothing will make a photographer’s heart seize up than hearing that their artworks – which are scheduled to appear in a gallery art show – have not yet arrived at the gallery. It’s one of those nightmare scenarios – the same kind where you dream that you’re late for a test, and you arrive at…

At 1:00 p.m. Eastern time today, December 30, 2010, the last processing plant for Kodachrome film in the world, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, accepted its final rolls of Kodachrome film for development.  Once the rolls that are currently at Dwayne’s facility are processed – including six rolls of mine – then an era in…

Here they are.  Four rolls of Kodachrome film.  A 25, a 40, and two 64s. First thing Monday morning – after digging out a gigantic amount of snow to find a 2005 Saturn Ion buried underneath – I put these final four cartridges – containing 144 undeveloped photos – into a FedEx mailer.  This stuff…

During these final days of Kodachrome development, I contacted Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas – say it with me, “the only photo lab in the country that can develop Kodachrome film” – and asked if there was some way to commemorate the last development days of Kodachrome. They originally said they didn’t have anything planned.…

I’m excited that the AOP Gallery in London is showing my Kodachrome artworks in their gallery this January.  My two photographs – “The Railsplitter” and “Toll Gate Ice Cream” – will be on display in an internationally-recognized art gallery as part of a show dedicated to the photographs taken with Kodachrome film.  That’s some serious…

The rain still cascaded down upon the Capital Region as I began this blog post.  There was enough rain and foul weather in the sky to put Noah back in the shipbuilding business. So here’s the deal.  Last month, I discovered that the Association of Photographers, an organization in Shoreditch, London, will host a gallery…