It’s that straight shaft of light that emanates from the clouds to the ground.ย They’re known as the sun’s crepuscular rays; they’re also known as “God’s Rays.” Background. Last Wednesday, as I headed home to my apartment in the Town/Village, I saw a storm brewing to the north.ย The clouds were black and angry.ย But…
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The Ripscale
Sunday was a rough day for me. Mothers’ Day is a very draining holiday. My mother passed away six years ago, and there’s a lot of emotions going through me. Not good ones. I thought about going over to Washington Park and photographing the tulips, but parking was almost non-existent. Downtown Albany was tougher to…
Read MoreThe “Single Shot, Half Shot” Project: The Beat of Officer Harris
I’m frustrated.ย I’ve tried creating a photographic project – my “Single Shot: Half Shot” project, in which I shoot the same roll of film through two different cameras – and I can’t get the proper film for it.ย For weeks, I’ve searched from here to there and everywhere for 70mm 616 film.ย Even the vintage…
Read MoreBlack Starlight: A Sun Trails Photo
In Greek mythology, the god Helios drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. I don’t presume to be Helios.ย But I DO have a plan to chronicle the path of the sun across the sky. This took a lot of planning – at least a year.ย Back then, Greg Dahlmann, the “Greg” of…
Read MoreTulips with Kodak and Fuji, Rollei and Nikon…
So over the weekend, I took several of my film cameras – my Nikon F100, my Rolleiflex, and a Nikon EM that I borrowed for the weekend from another project – and packed each one of them with their appropriate rolls of Kodak or Fuji film.ย Since the tulips bloomed early this season, I knew…
Read MoreThe Black Bridge Photo Project
The following blog post is created in memory of Thomas Warren Belcher III. It’s quiet tonight.ย An icy, wet quietness that envelops my mind and my soul. And here I am.ย Standing on the shore of Van Schaick Island in the middle of the night.ย My Vivitar wideangle lens is strapped onto a Nikon EM…
Read MoreYou paid ยฃ750 for these wedding photos? YIKES!!
This came from one of my favorite photo sites, PetaPixel. Apparently as Thomas and Anneka Geary prepared for their wedding; coordinating the arrival of 120 family members and guests, spending over ยฃ14,000 ($22,600 US) for their wedding, all that stuff – they spent ยฃ750 ($1,210 US) for the photographer. They hired a company called Westgate…
Read MoreIf the film were any slower, it could be timed with a sundial
After I heard the recent news that Kodak was discontinuing its Ektachrome slide film production, I decided to purchase some Ektachrome online so that I would have a decent supply as needed. As I did a “walkabout” around the internet, I came across a dealer who was selling Ektachrome Duplicating SO-366 film.ย I was not…
Read MoreCan the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove be saved?
Two years ago, I photographed this iconic lighthouse in Nova Scotia.ย I had to get up at the crack of morn, drive an hour south of Halifax to get this shot, and even in doing so, I almost fell into the Atlantic Ocean trying to photograph the lighthouse from this very spot (damn slippery rocks).…
Read MoreCaption Time: Butterflies and Citrus
I took this photo last Saturday. Feel free to add a decent caption to this one. Photo by Chuck Miller. Caption by you.
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