Phil Coomes is a BBC photographer who, when Kodak announced in 2009 that they would no longer manufacture Kodachrome film, embarked on his own personal Kodachrome photography project. His project, “64×64: Farewell to Kodachrome,” featured him publishing a Kodachrome photograph to the flickr website once a day, every day, for 448 straight days. The book,…
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The final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 26, 2010 – My final roll ever.
The roll: Kodachrome 64, purchased on eBay. My final roll of Kodachrome 64. The date: December 26, 2010. Last day I can shoot anything in Kodachrome and still make a development delivery date to Kansas. The camera: Kiev 19. The lens: Nikon 300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens, nicknamed the “Rachel.” Time to shoot. It was extremely…
Read MoreThe final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 25, 2010
The roll: Kodachrome 64, purchased on eBay. It was in my freezer until it was time to shoot. The date: December 25, 2010. Christmas Day. The camera: Kiev 19. The lens: Nikon 300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens, nicknamed the “Rachel.” Time to shoot. I had a roll of Kodachrome 200 in the freezer, but I chose…
Read MoreThe final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 24, 2010
The roll: Kodachrome 40, acquired through private purchase. After I listed this blog post about my missing out on some Kodachrome 40 on eBay, a reader from California named Larry was kind enough to send me some rolls of the precious film. I had it in my fridge until it was time to shoot. The…
Read MoreThe final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 23, 2010
This was it. There were no more delays, no more postponements, no more extensions. Christmas weekend, 2010 was the last weekend in which I could actually use the iconic slide film known as Kodachrome. And I had to make it count. Over that holiday weekend, I designated four rolls of Kodachrome film for one last…
Read MoreDetails on the 4th Annual St. Agnes Cemetery Photo Contest
I just received word from KellyAnn Grimaldi of St. Agnes Cemetery regarding the upcoming 4th annual St. Agnes Cemetery Photo Contest. The photo contest, in conjunction with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, and sponsored by Trustco Bank, encourages photographers to take inspiring and reverent photographs on the St. Agnes Cemetery grounds, and to submit…
Read MoreMy last Kodachrome fireworks shots
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…
Read MoreThe Mystery of the J.S. Flood Stained Glass Window
A few days ago, I displayed some photographs on this blog – photographs that were cross-processed by developing slide film as regular film. One of the pictures I posted to the blog was this photo of a stained glass window at the Palace Theater. I remembered the location as a barbershop; however, Carl Johnson (who…
Read MoreKodak’s new Easy Share cameras – digital Kodachrome?!?
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…
Read MoreChuck Miller and Getty Images? Yes please…
My personal flickr account contains over 2,500 photographs – everything from Kodachrome shots to Premier Basketball League action images. But it was a quiet photograph of a downtown Albany landmark that has earned me a small licensing partnership with – of all organizations – Getty Images. Here’s the background info. Getty Images has partnered with…
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