Through A Glass, Darkly

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved airplanes. The thought of flying was the most thrilling thing I could think of. In 1976 when I was 9,...

I developed some film this weekend. Two rolls of 35mm film went into my Patterson tank along with 500 mL of 1:100 Adonal. Did you catch that...

A couple of weekends ago, my family packed up for an outing. We live in San Diego which is pretty hot in the summer, but with two boys in sc...

I have really enjoyed putting this series together. Looking for examples when I was out walking around my suburban environment turned out t...

Here in San Diego, California we have two seasons. There is Warm Summer and Hot Summer. Right now we are still in Warm Summer as it is late ...

Looking back, I can see that it was inevitable. Flickr started making massive and dramatic changes to their site maybe around a year ago. At...

Wow, it's been a while since I've done one of these. This one is a root of a Ficus benjamina tree. If you live somewhere that these...

I may have posted something about this in the past, but I'm too lazy to find out, so forgive me if I am being redundant. Lots of peopl...

I didn't really take these two photos with a blog post in mind, but I ended up scanning the films together and so the comparison was ine...

A couple of weekends ago I was at the big weekly swap meet, what my UK counterparts might call a 'car boot sale'. I took my Graflex ...

I was looking around the house for things to photograph. I had my still life platform all set, now I just needed something 'still' t...

So I decided to embark on the 100 Strangers Challenge. It is a pretty simple concept. Take a portrait of 100 strangers. That's it. Okay,...

If you were fortunate enough to read my scintillating previous post about the pinhole camera, you probably finished it scratching your head,...

I recently saw a post over on FilmWasters.com where the author/artist posted a whole roll of photos where he admittedly ... made quite a fe...

I took this photo with my '51 Graflex Speed Graphic camera. I was walking around with it hand-held, which I don't do very much beca...

I had had a couple of failures using Kodak CSG x-ray film in my pinhole camera. They came out WAY over-exposed. One was this photo of Jim...

Ok, the BMW wasn't destroyed, but the image nearly was. i was cutting down some 8x10 sheets of Kodak CSG x-ray film for the Speed Graphi...

In my post Fern Leaves , I said, " I exposed for 1/10th of a second as metered (no compensation for filter or bellows extension) "...

I generally try to compose a photo well enough in the camera that it doesn't require a lot of 'fiddling' in post production. I t...

I'm not really much of a 'closeup' or 'macro' photographer. So I don't really have many tips on doing it right, but ...