So here’s the situation.ย In 2012, I wrote a blog post here – and, since I didn’t have a picture of the item I wanted to use in the blog, I looked on flickr for a photo that could be used for the blog.ย I posted the picture in the blog, making sure to attribute…
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“Red”-skolnikov?
I’ve been playing with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 “Raskolnikov” camera for about a month or so, and I’ve enjoyed the results.ย And in playing with the camera, I’ve tried adding some new variables and disciplines to the 1960’s Soviet panoramic camera. One of the variables I’ve tested out is redscale film.ย ย In redscale photoraphy, the film…
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Simple versus elaborate: The “Picture Frame” sessions
So my original plan was thus. A few years ago, my modeling friend Lauren helped me create an illusion called Her Stolen Heart, in which she would hold a frame and I would photograph in such a way that the frame appeared to show what was behind her. I entered it as one of my…
Read MoreAlbany Center Gallery’s Northeast Home Show – with two Chuck artworks!!
Two years ago, one of my Dream Window constructs, Dream Window 5: The Thirst Quencher, appeared as part of the Albany Center Gallery’s Northeast Home Show art show at the Times Union Center. After not submitting anything in 2014 – I really didn’t think I had anything hang-worthy that year – I submitted three pictures…
Read MoreThe Purple Express, and how to find another…
As I continue my tests and excursions with my new Russian panoramic camera, I spent Sunday morning traipsing through some sites along Route 20 – Guilderland, Duanesburg, that kind of thing. I really didn’t find much that caught my eye, except for this New York Central locomotive that was part of some roadside attraction in…
Read MoreYes, the Cohoes Falls are that cold right now…
This is what happens when I get bored. In my cabinet of leftover film stock is a roll of Kodak Plus-X 125 black and white film.ย I have no idea what its expiration date is.ย I don’t even remember where or when I acquired it. No matter.ย I’ve been funneling a lot of leftover 35mm…
Read MoreThe Instamatic Railroad
This might be the most avant-garde attempt at a photographic discipline that I’ve ever tried.ย EVER. I’m using a Russian panoramic camera and 25-year-old expired film.ย And a whole lot of prayer. And it all comes down to a little discovery I made regarding my photographic projects. Recently, I acquired a Krasnogorsk ะคT-2 panoramic camera,…
Read MoreRecomposing my “Mail Pouch Tobacco” photo
God, how long ago did I take this picture?ย I think I was still writing for my old blogspot.com blog. Well, in any case… I’m always fascinated by vintage advertisements on the sides of buildings.ย “Ghost signs,” faded brickart, that kind of thing.ย It’s kinda cool to see an advertisement that has outlived its product.…
Read MoreRestarting a failed relationship, one more chance.
I got involved in this relationship a few years ago.ย It might have been around a time when I was looking for something more than what I currently had.ย And for a while, that relationship was exciting and intriguing. But then that relationship evolved into a level of undependability.ย Serious undependability.ย I say, “Let’s do…
Read MoreMore adventures with “Raskolnikov”
It’s December 26 – the day after Christmas – and I’m at CameraWorks in Latham.ย My Krasnogorsk FT-2 panoramic camera “Raskolnikov” is undergoing a CLA – the camera equivalent of a automobile’s tune-up.ย My camera tech Allen sealed up some of the camera’s light leaks (yep, one of those light leaks came through the camera’s…
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