Because the last thing I need is the Soviet Secret Police coming to visit me in the middle of the night, wondering what I’m doing with their Russian camera film and why I’m shooting it with an American camera. Background. A month ago, I acquired a Revere Eye-Matic EE-127 rangefinder camera.ย I tested it out…
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Want to give the holiday gift of high-quality rock music photographs? Sure you do!
In 1962, a young man named Eddie Kramer took a job as an assistant at London’s Advision Studios.ย That “foot in the door” allowed Kramer to collaborate with some of the top names in rock and roll music.ย He engineered and produced albums by such artists as Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and…
Read MoreHoliday Photos with the Professor’s Wife – and the Professor’s Wife’s Husband – and a Bottle Service model, too!
It’s Saturday morning, November 12th, there’s a chill in the air, and the leaves are slowly rustling through the grass on the Siena College campus. I’ve packed my Nikon D700 digital, along with my Nikon F100 film camera and a new camera that I’m not ready to tell anyone about just yet.ย And now I…
Read MoreWhat’s white, made of aluminum and fires twelve shots?
It’s my new 127 camera.ย Yep.ย To replace my recently donated Ansco Cadet camera, I snagged a 1958 Revere Eye-Matic EE 127 rangefinder camera off eBay. And I know you’re all looking at me and saying, “Oh geez, Chuck got yet ANOTHER camera.ย What does this camera do that all his others can’t?” Well, for…
Read MoreSupporting Historic Albany Foundation’s “BUILT” Silent Auction
A few weeks ago, when I dropped off some rolls of film to McGreevy Pro Lab for developing, the clerk at McGreevy, fellow photographer Joe Putrock, asked if I had considered entering anything into Historic Albany Foundation’s “BUILT” silent auction and art show. “No,” I replied.ย “I thought the deadline had passed.” “It hasn’t passed,”…
Read MoreยซPardonnez-moi … Est-ce un Rolleiflex?ยป
Last Saturday, between my stint photographing basketball games in Quebec City (Kebs won twice, nice), I decided to take my Rolleiflex camera out for an evening stroll through downtown.ย I had five rolls of 120 film at the ready, and I wanted to relax and take in the sites of Albany’s Canadian sister city. First…
Read MoreThe Sea-Green Bicycle
I don’t know what it was about the bicycle that caught my eye.ย Whether it was its light nautical sea-green paint job, the multicolored flowers in its white handlebar basket, or its bright, cheery appearance along the gritty, rainy New York City avenue – whatever reason it was, I had to take a picture of…
Read MoreA part of Albany was left in Center Tuftonboro, New Hampshire
My Aunt Elaine operates the Golden Past Antiques store in Center Tuftonboro, New Hampshire.ย Her store is near the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, adjacent to the towns of Wolfeboro and Alton and Laconia. The leaves are changing colors.ย The roads from Troy to Bennington to Lebanon to Ossipee – the easiest way to get from…
Read MoreIf you can’t photograph a rainbow… build one.
Last Friday night, as the sun set, I headed toward the parking garage where Cardachrome sits during the weekdays.ย Just as I reach my parking structure, I look up at the rainy sky.ย The rain had subsided, the setting sun was peeking out through the clouds, and – whoa.ย Rainbow. And I’ve got my Nikon…
Read MoreResults of the 2011 St. Agnes Cemetery Photo Contest
Last May, I tried to use my split-film photography techniques in a controlled environment.ย I loaded two of my “experimental” cameras – my Agfa Chief and my Holga – with 35mm splitfilm mixtures, and then took both cameras to St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands. It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, drizzly and gloomy and wet…
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