festive wreaths and fences
If you, like me, wanted to continue your search for some festive feelings in a series of toy camera photographs of holiday stuff in stores and other public places, you better have gone to Menards...
View Articlethis is not a picture of detroit, michigan
It happened again for the second year in a row. I was in Chicago (Illinois) for the Chicago Auto Show today, and I took this particular picture with my smartphone. It’s a perfectly conventional view...
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Polaroid CUBE Any self portrait I make in any medium is likely to be cryptic and symbolic in the extreme. Selfies are not my thing. I am not my favorite photographic subject. The best thing about...
View Articledistraction: a toy camera
Every photographer should have a toy camera. The combination of a low fi plastic lens, minimal controls, and no way to review the images on the spot means there’s nothing much to do except see...
View Articlethree important objects
I post a lot of photography here, and I thought at least some of you might be interested in seeing three of my motley collection of (mostly secondhand) cameras. I recently bought some neoprene “Hood...
View Articlemeet the monolith
I honestly don’t know what to do with myself after having spent the last 12 days enjoying an absorbing new hobby called “checking the Royal Mail package tracking website five times a day trying to...
View Articlekap and cap
What’s this when it’s at home, then? The bold white title on the tall prism housing says it all: it’s a current Pentax DSLR. This one is a KP, compact, 24 mp crop sensor, designed to get the best out...
View Articlethaw/fog
The pattern of freeze and thaw as Midwestern winter is (slowly) ending yields a particular beauty made of old snow, bare trees, puddles and fog. A while ago, I got a new iPod Touch and loaded onto it...
View Articlescary apples
I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to buy an iPad and install Procreate on it and use an Apple Pencil to draw some little doodle comics. I’m not planning to replace my natural media cartooning– I bleed...
View Articlehappy buddha grape! the blog returns!
The blog reappears to say we are sorry there has not been a blog and try to explain why. The reason there has not been a blog is because we have had Technical Difficulties. So many Technical...
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