It’s Wednesday morning. My ears are still ringing. My skin smells like diesel fuel and burnt oil. My eyes are fifteen shades of red. No, Chuck did not spend the night at a Gwar concert. But last night was one helluva night. Spin the clock back to … yesterday, when I got a phone call…
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Howzabout a camera that focuses AFTER you take the picture?
I saw this the other day on the PetaPixel website, and was intrigued. Intrigued enough to share this with all of you. A San Francisco-based startup company, Lytro, is currently in the process of developing a camera that may allow the user to zoom into focus on an image – AFTER that image has been…
Read MoreCommemorating a Memory of 9/11 in film
This year, the New York State Fair is offering a special category in their photography contest. They want something that commemorates the tenth anniversary of a tragic day in American history. Here’s what the Fair wants, in terms of rules: DIVISION G – 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Photos with a patriotic theme reflecting…
Read MoreFarewell to the Kiev-19 and to the Nikkormat FTn
I don’t want to part with these cameras. They were my first 35mm shooters, and they were the cameras I used when I was involved in my Kodachrome project last year. But right now my camera collection is expanding to the breaking point. I have three 35mm shooters – my Kiev-19 Soviet “Red Special”; my…
Read MoreLodge’s Store in PolaBlue
Remember when I said that Polaroid 35mm instant slide film was some of the toughest film I’ve ever worked with? The high-contrast PolaChrome and PolaBlue films were extremely temperamental, and getting anything that resembled more than just a swirled color blob was nothing short of a miracle? Well, in the last batch of PolaBlue film,…
Read More“Delivery for Chuck Miller, Олбани, США”
The package arrived in the mail, all the way from the sunny shores of Ukraine – courtesy of one of my eBay sellers. This is cool. I’ve been waiting for this for about two weeks. And as I opened the package up – yep. Just what I was looking for. Six packs of Свема (Svema)…
Read MoreOne last try at a “split-film” photo of the Bridge at Washington Park
Okay. I think I’ve figured out all the glitches that have plagued me in creating this “Swiss Roll” split-film picture. I’m going to try it one more time. One last chance. If it doesn’t work this time, I’m going to try something else. I don’t have time to waste on this concept, and I’m getting…
Read MoreRunning for twenty consecutive years
Michele Poole still has all her original running bibs. All nineteen of them. Even the one that still has ink smears from the time she finished the race in the pouring rain. And last Thursday night, she showed me every one of the little paper-and-safety-pin badges, as she prepared for her 20th consecutive Freihofer’s Run…
Read MoreThe customer service at Latham’s Hobby Lobby
Okay. Am I obsessing a bit about getting my photographs ready for the Altamont Fair photography contest? A bit? Well, maybe not a bit… Last week, I began framing work on two of the four pictures I hope to enter in the Altamont Fair photography contest. The Altamont Fair contest allows the entrants to frame…
Read MoreA Swiss Roll Photo at Washington Park
Last Saturday morning, I received a package in the mail. It was a roll of 616 Kodak Verichrome film, with an expiration date of 1944. Yes, 1944. And I know very well that I’ll be lucky if I get silhouettes out of this roll of film – but maybe that can work to my advantage.…
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