In a World of Fake Things, Give Me Something Real

Besides misinformation filling our airwaves, there are fake things filling our world nowadays. I was walking through a Costco today and I saw a box with ten "candles" for sale for $24.99 only they weren't really candles, they were battery-operated flameless candles supposed to look like real candles. They come complete with a wireless remote...

Show Your Work

When I was a kid in school, in math class once you got the math problem solved the teacher would say, "Show your work." If you were going to do the work, show it, show how you got there. I use that same phrase with photographers. "Show your work." What are you making it for...

Holiday Gifts: Framed Photographs You Made

I am a proponent of printing photographs, to make them real and to make them last. So they're not seen for a second on a screen. The holidays are approaching and with that the stress over what to get someone. How much to spend? How many gifts? How much is enough? It's crazy the stress...

Making Photographs Versus Taking Pictures

I was listening to the Camerosity podcast, which I enjoy. It's a production by Mike Eckman, who has quite a few quality camera reviews online and whose site is a fun place to spend a few minutes when you want to read about cameras. There's an episode I highly recommend to folks interested in Nikon...

Slide Film: Creating Slide Shows in 2021

I rarely use color film because I prefer photographing with black and white film and Ilford HP5+ is my black and white film of choice. I do love the look of Kodak Ektar and Portra for color films, but I just don't reach for them much. This week I was reading about work made made...

The Car Assignment in The Photo Game

There are seven photographers in the The Photo Game that began in mid-November. Here is my submissions for the latest prompt: The Automobile, The Horseless Carriage, The Car. Projects and assignments make me inspired and I become very prolific. These four photographs were completed a couple of days after the assignment dropped on Saturday 11/20/21....

Life in Little Moments Photographed

I document the world I experience, the people I meet and the places I go. Like these two photographs. Both are full of life. Slices of places I've gone and experienced. I can smell the coffee in the top photo, and the diner hash browns in the bottom photo. The room is crowded, this is...

The Perfect Large Format Film Format: 5×7

I have been interested in finding a 5x7 camera for some time. Why, when I already have 4x5 cameras and even a pair of 8x10s. What do I need a new format for? Well, it's really quite simple. I saw Lewis Hines' exhibit of underage factory workers from the early 1900s at the Howard Greenberg...

You Have No Expectation of Privacy While in Public

After discussing street photography at length this week, I've concluded the photographers who are its proponents are a victim of the majority of people not knowing this one right protected by the First Amendment. And that Street Photography is a kind of documentary photojournalism. From the ACLU: "As a form of expression, photography is protected...

Two Types of Street Photographers

In my experience, there are two kinds of street photographer: The Coward and The Photojournalist. Which are you? The coward is omnipresent in street photography circles. Everyone who goes out for the first time is one--afraid of confrontation, worried they're going to get called out and get into a fight. Punched in the nose? Yep,...