Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I’ve been having a lot of fun with my new Kodak Medalist II camera, and this metal beast has already proven it can handle an array of medium-format film photography, so long as I respool 120 film onto 620 spools. A small inconvenience if I can get decent photos out of it. As part of…
Read MoreI’m not going to lie. The past two weeks have amounted to hell on earth for me. Everything I’ve done of late has turned into a big steaming pile of manure. It’s almost as if I can’t get out of my own way. It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m still in a miserable mental funk. And I…
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Experimental film at a baseball game in Binghamton. How did things turn out?
Read MoreIt’s Sunday morning and I need to take my cameras and go shoot something, anything. I keep telling myself that it’s practice for my Kodak Medalist II camera, which I’m need to make this camera really work. Now let’s see if it can handle the toughest film in my arsenal – the wonky, gritty, angry…
Read MoreIt was last Saturday morning. I picked up my artworks from the Thacher Park art show, and was driving back through Thacher Park when I decided to pull over for some photography. As I walked through the snow-coated, ice-choked portions of the nearby trails, I heard a waterfall. Of course that means I’m going to…
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When it comes to medium format photography – using 120 and 616 film, as opposed to 35mm film – I’ve had hits and misses with my cameras. Many of my medium format camera that were once in my possession – the Holga, the Kowa Super 66, the Kodak Brownie Bull’s-Eye – have gone from “Chuck…
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I love experimenting with film. It’s fun to create new images and new photography concepts. Part of working with film is to use the properties of the film itself to create something special in the final image. I’ve already experimented with redscale film, expired film, cross-processing and sprocket-hole photography. Now to take this to the…
Read MoreMan, did I pick a bad time to try to fight this battle. Background. I’m gathering images together for competition season, and one of the images I wanted to enter in the New York State Fair this year was this little graphic. That’s right. I had plans to print this image in such a way…
Read MoreI’m a very staunch supporter of Erin Davies’ “Fagbug,” the little Volkswagen Beetle that went from a humble transportation vehicle to a symbol of tolerance in the face of vandalism and homophobia. The Fagbug has traveled across this great nation of ours, it visited every state in the Union (yes, it was shipped to Hawai’i…
Read MoreFour years ago, back when this blog was new on the TU blog portal, I found a roll of C-22 127 film in an old Kodak Brownie Super 27 camera. Figured I’d get the film developed and see what was on it. Might even make a blog post out of what I found. Well, I…
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