I still remember, as clear as day, during the time when I spent a few childhood years in Slingerlands, when my grandfather would take me to the post office at the intersection of Kenwood Avenue and New Scotland Road. He would pick up the family mail and postcards, and if I had been a good…
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The Fencesitter at Thacher Park
Two years ago, I took some photos from the Helderberg Escarpment at Thacher Park. One of them, “Star Trails of Thacher Park,” was presented at several contests. Last Sunday, I took my Nikon F100 film camera, along with some rolls of film and a couple of my lenses, up to Thacher Park to capture some…
Read MoreYour amplifier may go up to 11… but my lens can go up to 19.
And as I unzip my camera bag… I pull out the newest lens in my arsenal. Say hi to the Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 wideangle lens. At 19mm of focal length, it’s my most-defined wide-angle camera in my bag. I just got it over the weekend, and paid for it with my share of the winnings…
Read MoreScalpel… sutures… anesthetic… lens cleaner… forceps…
Last year, I acquired a Kodak Brownie Bull’s-Eye 620 camera at a yard sale. I took some pictures with it – it’s a decent shooter, and I like the idea of using 120 film in a 620 “wide” 6×9 format – but, as much as I loved what the camera could do, the pictures it…
Read MoreOne more try for my Single Shot: Half Shot “Night Train” photo…
This is my last roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 616 film for a while. It’s not like I’ve got a freezer full of the stuff on hand; 616 film hasn’t been produced since the mid-1970’s, so I gotta get this stuff off the collectors’ market. So until I get some more… this last roll will…
Read MoreMy Flame-Powered Camera Gear
For the past year, I’ve found some great photo life in my old Agfa Chief 616 box camera. It’s allowed me to both experiment with vintage film, but also to evolve my “splitfilm” trick of using two rolls of film in one camera. In fact, it was this bad beast that produced one of my…
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 MoreA further experiment with the Single Shot: Half Shot Project
So, my first experiment with the Single Shot: Half Shot project, in which I loaded a roll of 70mm 616 film into my vintage Agfa Chief (which will take eight “single shot” photos with it) and then re-loading it into my vintage Agfa Clipper Special (which will take 15 “half shot” photos with it), entered…
Read MoreA message for the Rensselaer Walmart Supercenter photo lab…
My friend and college classmate Cam McWhirter requested a print of my Christmas Eve star trails at the Sacandaga Lake. And since he was kind enough to send me a copy of his excellent book Red Summer, a history of racial tension and riots in post-World War I America, I was more than happy to…
Read MoreThe Jericho and the Barn
I’ve driven by this part of Glenmont several times – most often when I’m going to or coming back from watching a film at the Jericho Drive-In. And on Monday, I had some Lomography 120 redscale film in the camera and a few shots to spare. Redscale film is film that is inserted into the…
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