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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 […]
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A long time ago, I ran across a book called “The Art of Seeing.” Not to be confused with the book by Aldous Huxley, this described a way of seeing the world in such a way as to easily paint […]
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I like to take the Twirly Camera along whenever I am out to take pictures. For those not in the know, the “Twirly Camera” is a Noblex 06/150 Panoramic camera. It was made in the 1990’s, and it makes panoramic […]
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From my earliest days I’ve thought of myself as an artist. Before I entered school I drew pictures of ornate robots on airless moons, comets with sweeping tails, ray-gunning spaceships, and Saturn-like ringed planets. In kindergarten I patiently waited my […]