Through A Glass, Darkly

Ultrafine Xtreme! It seems a little silly to brand something with "Ultra" and "Extreme" in the title. In Latin, the pref...

I have been a user (if not a devoted one) of caffenol ever since I ran into Reinhold's blog and saw the wonderful results he and other...

One or both of my readers (hi mom) may be familiar with the b/w film developer Caffenol . This is made with instant coffee, washing soda and...

Since the beginning of photography, artists have recorded information about their camera, emulsion and exposure. Historically, this was done...

I picked up a Kodak Instamatic 500 at my local Goodwill via the Goodwill Auction Site . It is a beauty even though the instamatic format wa...

When I wrote the last two Pushing Through articles , I used a couple of photos from one of my favorite cameras; my 1939 Voigtländer Bessa 6x...

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 ...

Here are a few photos I took just around my workplace. The camera was my Yashica Electro 35 loaded with some expired Kodak Ektachrome Slide ...

I have always liked the look of film. Even when our first child was born in 1997, I didn't rush out and buy a 'video' camera. I ...

This is a little bit of a departure from the theme of the first 8 in this series, but I think that it is well within the overall theme of pl...

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

There are two kinds of water in photography. There is still water and there is moving water. Both can be interesting and both can be very ef...

We had a family reunion of sorts up in Oregon at a place called Black Butte Ranch . It is sort of a typical Northwest resort. It is up in t...

I have had this idea for a photo essay or series for a while. This photo is the first in the series. It is called Pushing Through I. The sub...

At first glance, you are thinking "James! Holy cow, take care of your freakin' white balance, will ya?" I thought that too, ...