Legacy Portraits on Film and Inspiring Photo Essays
A lot of photographers have been struggling to find things to photograph in this pandemic-laden world, but I've been keeping busy with a lot of photos for my Roy Stryker photo project, now over five years old and publishing three times a week. The need for creating photos makes the photographic opportunities happen. The muse... Continue Reading →
I was working last week on a photo shoot for a client in Philadelphia, and I traveled across the country so I could bring a full portrait studio, and also so I could stop in towns across the U.S. and make photographs for my Roy Stryker photo project. In my travels, I met a couple... Continue Reading →
PORTRAITS ON FILM - What's the difference? I am proud to be known as a Film Photographer. It's my passion and what sets me apart from most photographers. Why use film when digital is so much easier? Who said art has to be easy? And why is easy better? IT'S ABOUT MAGIC I shoot film... Continue Reading →
This is why I shoot Elderly Photo Visits. It gives me the chance to preserve memories that will last long after our parents and grandparents are gone. And will be cherished by generations to come. I printed this photo and gave it to several family members in frames I picked up at Goodwill (50% off... Continue Reading →
As a photographer, there's nothing else that matters, no one else who gets to decide what is important, other than that which is important to you. Photography is a creative expression, and when we stop looking to create images that will please others, and actually create images that please ourselves, that reveal a little something... Continue Reading →
Made with a Rolleiflex T twin-lens reflex camera on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, it's a moment captured on film that has a feeling all its own. And very few of the digital photos being taken today will last 50 years, like this will. Because this negative is physical--I can hold it in... Continue Reading →
It's a feeling. I suppose, you either feel it or you don't. I certainly do. There's a magic in that silver, I tell you. Now there's a Tri-X negative in a sleeve that exists with that image. And there is a print of each photograph in a frame, to savor those moments. Because photography wasn't... Continue Reading →
If you want more interesting photos, shoot more interesting subjects. (And shoot on film.) There's a special beauty to having a special beauty in your life to have to photograph. This is mine. Having willing family members and friends makes all the difference, much more than camera equipment. The first two were made with a... Continue Reading →
I realize I shoot film a lot, but I have multiple bodies with film loaded, and I tend to shoot conservatively, just a frame or two on a person or a subject. I want to change that. I just added motor drives to two of my Nikons, an F3, and an FM2, the cameras I... Continue Reading →
An observation: Photography hobbyists make lens analyses, compare versions of bodies, features and lenses, read DXO scores, look to get the next best thing, discuss purchases, workshops, latest tricks and techniques. They do a lot more than make photographs. Photographers make photographs.
