Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I love this Revolog boutique film.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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,ย The Jumbuck, became the first Chuck Miller photo to appear on the walls of the Capital District Photo Regionals, the premier annual photography show.ย I was so happy that day.ย 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.ย After a few tries with a few different mugs, I found an…
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I’ve capped my limit to useable, shootable cameras at ten – my Nikons (the Df, the F100), my AGFAs (the Chief, the Clipper Special f/6.3), Kodak Red (my Kodak Medalist II), Leica Green (my Leica M3), my Rolleiflex Automat MX, my NIMSLO 3D film shooter, Raskolnkov (my Krasnogorsk ะคT-2 super-ultrawide) and, as soon as it…
Read MoreIt’s the prestige photo competition of the Capital District.ย It’s the one in which the top amateur and professional photographers place their best works on display. And for years, I couldn’t get in the front door of the Photo Regionals to save my life.ย I would submit my entries, they would not pass the round…
Read MoreIt’s always bugged me about the sign for the closed L-Ken’s Drive-In in Colonie. Take a look. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js This photo of L-Ken’s was shot in 2010. And right away, you can see the big distracting issue that ruins this photograph. Yep. It’s that big real estate sign that’s become part of the marquee. Ugh. It…
Read MoreYou remember my photo Star Trails of Brown Tract Pond, don’t you? //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Yes. That one. Tomorrow, this picture, along with many others from may different artists and craftspeople, will be displayed at the New York State Museum on Saturday from noon to 4pm as part of a one-day Museum exhibit called “Great Places –…
Read MoreIt’s been a long weekend for me, and I was watching the last of the football playoff games when – of all things – a massive thunderstorm blew through the Capital District. Yes.ย In January.ย A thunderstorm. Later on,ย as the thunderstorm finished its sonic and visual show, I settled back to watch some more…
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