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Found Film: Korea, 1946 – Part 3
This is the third installment (in what will eventually be 4) in a series of posts about a fascinating project I have been working on. Rather than the usual “found film” which I find undeveloped, this is a set of … Continue reading
Indian Portraits from the 1950s and 1960s
Between Chennai and Pondicherry is an area with an especially high proliferation of “junk stores. I suppose the owners would prefer we’d call them antique shops – but there actually aren’t that many actual antiques, just lots of oddities and … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film, Life in India
Tagged antique, India, Madurai, photographs, posed, studio, vintage
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Found Film: Korea, 1946 – part 2
Last week I posted about the first of four rolls of already-developed film I had come across via a seller on eBay, and have been scanning and restoring one by one. This is the second roll, which provides a whole … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film
Tagged 1945, 2nd Engineer Special Brigade, 592nd, Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, engineers, found film, Incheon, Inchon, Korea, LCM, LST, vintage, wome-do
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Random Scenes from Bangalore
We took a stroll through “Gandhi Bazaar” in Bangalore – also known as “Basavanagudi” – last weekend, and I thought I share some random – if occasionally odd – photos. The first photo is literally a bunch of leaves. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India
Tagged Bangalore, Basavanagudi, Gandhi bazaar, street photography
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Found Film: Korea, 1946
A few months ago I came across a post on eBay where someone was selling four rolls of already-developed film. The seller professed being unsure about wanting to get rid of the film, so I offered to buy them and … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film
Tagged 2nd ESB, 592nd, EBSR, Engineer, Hodge, Incheon, Korea, occupation, World War II
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Impressions of Koyambedu
Koyambedu Wholesale Market Complex is one of Asia’s largest perishable goods market complexes. Spread over an area of 295 acres, the complex consists of more than 1,000 wholesale shops and 2,000 retail shops. The market has two blocks for vegetable shops and one … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India, Photowalks
Tagged Chennai, India, Koyambedu, market, photowalk, wholesale
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Photographing Chennai’s Kids
A number of different photographer groups in Chennai regularly organize photowalks – walks through various neighborhoods in Chennai. The potential photographic subjects will vary – sometimes it’s market vendors, or stately old buildings, still life, fishing villages. In certain situations, … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India, Photowalks
Tagged Chennai, children, India, Island Ground, photowalk
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Found Film Friday: Yellowstone Part 4
This is the last of four posts on a big pile of found film I got recently – 13 rolls of Ektachrome slide film requiring processing using E2 and E3 chemical processes, neither of which have been available since the … Continue reading
What do our TV ads say about us?
70 or 80 years from now, what will people think of us when they see the television commercials that we use to sell products to each other? If attitudes shift as much as they have over the last 70 to … Continue reading
Make Your Own 3-D Camera!
I was checking out the latest copy of Photo-Era Magazine (the latest I own, anyway) – dated April, 1929 – here’s the cover: It’s chock full of interesting articles on photography – and ads for the latest cameras, including this … Continue reading
Posted in Random Thoughts, Observations and Weird Stuff, Tips and Tricks, Vintage cameras
Tagged 3-D, 3D, hawk-eye, Kodak, No. 2, photo-era, stereoscopic, vintage magazine
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Found Film Friday: Yellowstone part 3
This is the third week I’ve been posting from this set of 13 rolls of film, from in and near Yellowstone National Park….but 13 rolls is a lot of pictures! I know not everyone is particularly enamored with these photos … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film
Tagged Castle Geyser, Church of the Transformation, found film, old faithful, petrified redwood, Yellowstone
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Found Film Friday: Yellowstone Part 2
Last week I posted the first installment in a series of posts in which I share images from a collection of 14 rolls of Ektachrome slide film requiring an outdated chemical process, but which I decided to develop with black … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged black and white, found film, National Park, vintage, Yellowstone
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Checking in with Rocky
I recently had the opportunity to meet Rocky Braat, the subject of an amazing documentary called “Blood Brother,” winner of both the Audience and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2013. The film tells the story of a disillusioned young American … Continue reading
Posted in Good Causes, Life in India
Tagged AIDS, Blood Brother, donations, India, orphans, project, Rocky Braat, shelter
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Shooting with a 115-year-old Camera
That DSLR you bought a couple months ago – do you think it will still work in the year 2130? Sounds ridiculous? That’s basically the equivalent of taking photos with a Cycle Poco No. 3, manufactured by the Rochester Camera … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage cameras
Tagged 4x5, antique, cycle poco, negatives, Rochester Camera Co., vintage
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Found Film Friday: Yellowstone, Part 1
I’d say “everybody has pictures from a trip to Yellowstone,” if I had ever been myself. But I have previously posted a “found film” roll that featured shots from that national park. A few weeks ago, I received 14 rolls … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film
Tagged Artist Point, E-2, E-3, Ektachrome, found film, National Park, Yellowstone
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Multi-Camera Composites
I came across an interesting image-producing technique a few months ago, the “multi-camera composite,” on the Flickr page of Tony Kemplen. [Sidebar: Tony Kemplen is known for his “52 film cameras in 52 weeks” project, which he started in 2010 … Continue reading
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Kasimedu Fishing Harbor
At the northern end of Chennai’s coast, just north of the Chennai port, where, at any given time, hundreds of trucks stretch in a long line waiting to load or unload goods, is Kasimedu fishing harbor – also known as … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India
Tagged Chennai, drydock, fishing, fishing boats, Harbor, Kasimedu, royapuram
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Found Film Friday: Two Dim Color Rolls
With old film, conventional wisdom says it’s best to develop it in black and white chemicals, regardless whether the film was originally color film or black and white. Apparently the different colored dyes not only break down more quickly than … Continue reading
Repurposing Indian Doors
If you have an old camera or two, it looks nice on a bookshelf with a couple of hardcover books. But what do you do with 75 old cameras? Who has that many bookshelves? It seemed a shame to have … Continue reading
We Two Ours One
As foreigners living in India, we constantly see things around us that leave us scratching our heads. There’s simply not enough time to chase them all down and figure out what they mean, so often we just accept them and … Continue reading
Found Film Friday: Year Round
This week’s “found film” is the last of four rolls that were found in a storage unit in Worcester, Massachusetts. There’s not a whole lot to say about this week’s roll, other than it makes me think of how we … Continue reading
Celebrating Five Years of TAZM Pictures
On the occasion of TAZM Pictures celebrating five years on the web, I thought you might be a bit more forgiving as I write a more self-indulgent post (wait, aren’t they all self-indulgent?). tazmpictures dot com….but why make a website? … Continue reading
Baby Olive Ridley Sea Turtles
Sea turtles have been on this earth for 110 million years, compared to humans’ 200,000. If my math is correct, relating Earth’s 4.6 billion-year existence to a 24-hour clock would have seen sea turtles arriving at around 11:26 pm…and humans … Continue reading
Posted in Good Causes, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged beach, Chennai, Dharini, Olive ridley, sea turtle, Tree Foundation
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Found Film Friday: Hannah’s Tenth Birthday
This week is the second of three “found film” Friday posts in which I’m sharing film that was found (by someone else) in a storage unit in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first post, last week, was a 110 cartridge from what … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film
Tagged 10th, birthday, found film, Hannah, Massachusetts, Worcester
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Vintage: Testing the Houghton Folding Ensign 3 1/4A
If you’re at all interested in my occasional posts about trying to make old cameras work, read on – this one is the oldest one yet. The Houghton Folding Ensign 3 1/4A was manufactured in London around 1912, and is … Continue reading
Posted in Tips and Tricks, Vintage cameras
Tagged 122 film, Ensign, Folding Ensign 3 1/4A, Houghton, sheet film, test, vintage camera
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