How Many Wrongs Make a Right?
January 10, 20144 CommentsMusingsIf two wrongs don't make a right, then how many wrongs does it take? At last, the answer is revealed!
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The Ponce Factor
December 2, 20136 CommentsMusingsUnsurprisingly (and like most photographers), my Holiday wish list is once again filled with all manner of photo-related paraphernalia. The surprising part lies in my definition of what constitutes "photo-related paraphernalia."
The 8% Solution
November 12, 20133 Commentsf/Egor (Leica Blog)How can photographers measure their success? Through simple mathematics, of course.
Littlefields
October 4, 20134 CommentsMusingsMy readers are well-aware of how stubbornly I hold onto certain photographic convictions — particularly my belief that photos are best-enjoyed printed. In a time when many photographers have never seen even a single one of their photos in print (much less a collection of prints), it's a delight to come across a world in which photographers still practice the fine craft of distributing photographs the "old fashioned" way — via small, independent magazines. This article discusses one such magazine, Littlefields, and how it gives me hope that photography's future need not resemble its present.
Multitasking
September 4, 20135 CommentsMusingsWhat's a busy fellow to do? Faced with a backlog of photo-related correspondences to write plus another blog article to develop, I had but one choice: Multitask!
The Other Half Frame
August 1, 20133 CommentsPhoto GearThere's more than one way to fill a negative. So when another attack of flat-back panoramic camera lust flared up recently, I chose to extinguish it not with a big bad Hasselblad Xpan, but with a diminutive little half-frame faux-panoramic camera, called the "Minolta Freedom Vista."
Pen Pal
July 2, 20139 CommentsPhoto GearLately, it seems everyone I know is buying an Olympus PEN. Not wanting to be left out, I too jumped into the waters — only instead of getting one of those new-fangled digital PENs, I opted for a classic mid-1960's PEN FT film camera.
Roadkill
June 3, 201314 CommentsMusingsThere are two types of street photographers — those who choose the label, and those whom the label chooses. Which are you? Which am I? And why?
ULTRA U: History of the Film Camera
May 8, 201311 CommentsMusingsPhoto GearWelcome to "ULTRA U," my new online university dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of photographic knowledge, as best I can manipulate it. Here, in Lesson 1, I'll discuss the real history of film formats for still photographers. Give it a read — you'll likely find it's not nearly as dry as you might suspect, and I guarantee you'll learn something you never knew before.
Reject Intent
April 30, 20135 CommentsMusingsvBookWhat makes one photograph better than another? Miraculously, I think I found the answer. And, as anyone who frequents this site might suspect, the answer has absolutely nothing to do with what we've previously read, learned or intuited. Read the article to see how I applied this new definition of 'better' to create the "Masquerade" vBook, which premiered on this site a couple weeks ago.
Masquerade
April 18, 20139 CommentsvBook"Masquerade" is my second vBook of photographic stills produced under the "Necessarily Narcissistic" film production label. In contrast to the purely accidental creation of my previous vBook ("47 Photos of Rain"), this one's creation is quite purposely accidental.