Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
One of my photographic experiments has involved working with Kodak’s Instamatic film – technically known as “126” film, or as I call it, that stuff I try to crack out of its original cartridges and shoot, even though it’s five days older than dirt. Now here’s the thing. Fresh Instamatic film hasn’t been manufactured in…
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This is waycool beyond belief. And I have this little weblog to thank for it. Yesterday, the film photography online magazine Emulsive published an interview with yours truly, featuring my photographic experiments with, among other techniques, splitfilm. You know … that little technique where I put more than one roll of film in a camera…
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I know, I know, I know… Every so often I’ll inherit or find an old film camera, and inside the camera might be a roll or a cartridge of exposed-yet-non-developed film. And I keep thinking to myself, “I might be able to get this film developed and maybe find out the story of the people…
Read MoreOne of my Hamilton College classmates, Wil Burns, tagged me on Facebook to participate in the 7-day nature photography challenge. The object? Post one nature picture every day for seven consecutive days, and each day that you post, you tag someone else to participate. Harmless, fun stuff. And today was my final day of participation. …
Read MoreThacher Park, of late, has become a place for me to recharge my creative personal photographic batteries. In doing so, I feel a refreshing change in my view towards nature. Which is what happened a couple of days ago. I dropped off my two pictures at the Emma Treadwell Nature Center for the upcoming Thacher…
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I love this Revolog boutique film. Especially the Tesla formulations, which add lightning strikes right onto the film itself. That being said, the other day I took a batch of Revolog Tesla film for a photo shoot. The thing with Revolog film is, you don’t know where or how the lightning will appear in the…
Read MoreI haven’t shot anything with my LomoChrome Purple boutique film of late, and a few weeks ago I wanted to break out a pack of the odd-colored film. LomoChrome Purple is produced by the Lomography film company, and promises to provide breathtaking pastel colors to your photos. And in this case, I had absolutely no…
Read MoreBackground. Last autumn, I photographed my friend Lauren as she tossed autumn leaves into the air. I used my Nimslo four-lensed film camera to capture the moment, and combined all four images into a magic-motion print. Lauren and the Leaves, Oct 2015 I posted the picture in my blog, and received some comment blowback from…
Read MoreIn 2014, my photo of an Icelandic pre-sheared sheep, The Jumbuck, became the first Chuck Miller photo to appear on the walls of the Capital District Photo Regionals, the premier annual photography show. I was so happy that day. For all intents and purposes, I had finally punched through that barrier that allowed my work to…
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As you know, I’ve been tinkering around with my “Salty Mug” series of photos, in which I pour salt and boiling water into a clay mug and wait until the salt permeates through the nooks and crannies and cracks in the mug itself. After a few tries with a few different mugs, I found an…
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