May 21, 2016. I’m traveling up the Northway, for my annual stop at the Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom amusement park. Riding shotgun with me is my four-lens Nimslo 3D camera – years ago, you could take pictures with this camera and ship the film off for digital printing on lenticular cards. You can still…
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Competition Season 2016: Trying the Iowa State Fair
Two years ago, I took a chance. Rather than only enter my photos in local and regional competitions, I tried to go – shall we say – interstate. One picture was shown in a competition in Washington State, another in San Francisco. But I also “whiffed” in a couple of competitions, one of which was…
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A pew, a one-horned goat, triplets and a very long lakehouse…
No, that’s not the opening line of a confusing joke. By the time you get up and read this blog post, though, I’ll most likely be out the door, dropping off photo images at McGreevy Pro Lab on my way to the day job. One of my famous blog slogans is, “It’s not Monday unless…
Read MoreNever stop at “Just Good Enough” when taking pictures
As my annual photography “Competition Season” looms closer, I realize that I have some really awesome photos to pick from this year. Some of them have shown a strong depth and evolution in my photography; others have offered me the chance to take a chance. Fancy chance that. One of my earlier photos, however, bothered…
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Return to Dudley
Five years ago, I photographed a Boston-based basketball tournament. During some down time, I did some personal photography around the neighborhood, and in those moments I found a beautiful mural featuring Boston’s Dudley neighborhood. I took some panoramic pictures, stitched them together, and blogged about the moment. Here’s the original picture from 2011. Five years…
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Dōmo arigatō for the Hariban
For 2016, I promised myself I would try entering some international photography competitions. And this one will take plenty of skill. And for this, I need twelve of my best black-and-white images. Twelve images that can stand up to a printing process known as collotype. Collotype printing – which involves coating a glass plate with…
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The High Five Inside
Sunday morning. I’m at Washington Park. The tulips have just started blooming. In two weeks, every photographer and shutterbug worth his or her salt will be all over these flower beds, looking for that great photo. I didn’t feel like waiting two weeks. Besides, I wanted to test out some extension tubes – metal rings…
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Finally!! Niagara 1970 1995 2016!!
There’s too much of a dreamer in me. Too much of trying to pull my concepts and ideas out of my tangled, damaged brain and put them into some sort of cognizant thought. Thus begat my concept of splitfilm. In splitfilm, a photographer takes two (or more) rolls of film and rolls them together so…
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The Niagara 2016 Excursion, Part 3
As I may have mentioned in a blog post or two, last Saturday I took a trip to Niagara Falls with several of my film cameras. I’m hoping that my camera gear can capture – in their own specific and unique way – the beauty and grandeur that is Niagara Falls. And one of the…
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The Niagara 2016 Excursion, Part 2
Last Saturday, I took several of my cameras to Niagara Falls for a little “Chuck needs to take photos and get away from all the stresses” day. And while I was initially pleased and surprised at the power of the fifrst photos that came from my BlackBerry PRIV camera phone (have I mentioned how much…
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