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A Renewed Focus on Film Images A season of travel and hiking, along with some new equipment, brings a new emphasis on my old passion: Film. I have been trying to put together a film kit for hiking this year. […]
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When entering The Catacombs, carry the right kind of wine. The Vault (or catacombs) is my euphemism for my older work. I keep my negatives in protective sheets in 3-ring binders labeled by the type of film, and the number […]
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I have 2023 made a calendar that will be for sale as of the 9th of December. This is an experiment to see how much interest there will be in producing more of them in future years. I do […]
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Part of my recent adventures in the darkroom has been to try to settle on a film / developer combination to stick with so that I can make my film work more consistent. The first steps in this has been […]
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Summer is here! It’s infrared season once again. Warm weather came late to the Pacific Northwest this year. That doesn’t happen often, but having a more temperate June was welcome. Now that July is here, I stocked up with infrared […]
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There are names, and then there are NAMES. In the Pacific Northwest, places like Portland, Eugene, or Klamath Falls have normal, family-oriented names, while Deadman Pass, Cape Disappointment, and Starvation Creek are another matter entirely. How did they get these […]
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Out of chaos comes art
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An Elwood 8×10 enlarger arrives to stir things up a bit.
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I have been at this for a long time. While not wishing to bathe in nostalgia, I wanted to go back and find earlier versions of recent photographs, and see how I have changed as a photographer, and how the […]
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The continuing story of the 8×10 Deardorff Camera After I picked up my Deardorff from having it repaired I was eager to get it out for a test. That was about the time that wildfires erupted in the West. Smoke […]