Nothing will make a photographer’s heart seize up than hearing that their artworks – which are scheduled to appear in a gallery art show – have not yet arrived at the gallery. It’s one of those nightmare scenarios – the same kind where you dream that you’re late for a test, and you arrive at…
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Downtown Albany in XPRO
Every so often, I think about traveling outside the normal, accepted boundaries and rules of film photography. I’ve crammed two rolls of 35mm film into a 120 camera and taken pictures that expose both rolls at the same time. That was fun. I’ve left a camera shutter open for hours so that I could capture…
Read MorePeaceful winter photography Sunday morning in Vermont
It’s 8am Sunday morning. Before I head on my journey home, I wanted to photograph some beautiful winter scenery in central Vermont. I mean, I’m here in Vermont, I have my Nikon D700 with me, not a good idea to waste an opportunity like this. There’s a river that runs along the Barre main road,…
Read MoreMemories of L-Ken’s…
L-Ken’s has been shuttered for years. The serving area is strewn with graffiti tags; the parking lot is starting to buckle. But I wanted to capture the memories of the iconic neon sign that drew people into the family eatery. I wanted to recall the picnic tables that people sat at as they noshed on…
Read MoreLook whose photo got picked up on Twitter!
Background. Last year, I shot the vintage Coca-Cola advertisement in Schenectady – the one painted on the side of an old building on Broadway – as part of an experiment. The idea was to cram two rolls of 35mm film into a medium format camera – and at the time, I was playing around with…
Read MoreMy best photos of 2010
At this time last year, I went through all my photographs and tried to find the best ones from the past twelve months. So now we’re in a new year, and once again it’s time for me to look back at how things turned out. I spent the year working both in digital and in…
Read MoreNow it’s just a Paul Simon song and a state park in Utah.
At 1:00 p.m. Eastern time today, December 30, 2010, the last processing plant for Kodachrome film in the world, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, accepted its final rolls of Kodachrome film for development. Once the rolls that are currently at Dwayne’s facility are processed – including six rolls of mine – then an era in…
Read MoreOff they go… my final four rolls of Kodachrome…
Here they are. Four rolls of Kodachrome film. A 25, a 40, and two 64s. First thing Monday morning – after digging out a gigantic amount of snow to find a 2005 Saturn Ion buried underneath – I put these final four cartridges – containing 144 undeveloped photos – into a FedEx mailer. This stuff…
Read MoreWant to buy a T-shirt for the last day of Kodachrome? Sure you do…
During these final days of Kodachrome development, I contacted Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas – say it with me, “the only photo lab in the country that can develop Kodachrome film” – and asked if there was some way to commemorate the last development days of Kodachrome. They originally said they didn’t have anything planned.…
Read MoreNOTE: 50cm x 60cm does not equal 20″ x 24″
I’m excited that the AOP Gallery in London is showing my Kodachrome artworks in their gallery this January. My two photographs – “The Railsplitter” and “Toll Gate Ice Cream” – will be on display in an internationally-recognized art gallery as part of a show dedicated to the photographs taken with Kodachrome film. That’s some serious…
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