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Flower Collage
Here’s a fun photo project…and an idea I stole from my wife (I explained to her that I was improving on her idea – it didn’t go over well). Â Go find a green space and see how many flowers you can discover. Â Or bugs. Â Or whatever. Â And then make a photo collage out of them.
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Found Film Friday: Cowboys and RVs
It’s been a slow week for photography and blogging. Â Last weekend we went to photograph and film the annual Ganesha Chathurti immersion of Ganesh idols in the sea. Â I got some great video, but unfortunately can’t locate the video card I recorded it on. Â So the only new post for this week is the weekly
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Found Film Friday: Country Outing
This week’s roll of “found film” came to me from near Binghamton, New York, where the Ansco company was located from the mid-1800s to around 1980. The spool was covered in rust, and the backing paper was stuck to the film so badly that I was unable to remove large strips of paper. So I
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A Brief History of Photography…as of 1912.
I have a few old camera magazines – about a century old. Â It’s fun to flip through them every now and then and consider how much has changed…and in some cases, how little has changed…in the field of photography. The article below, from the December 1912 issue of “The Camera” magazine (cover above), recounts the
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Dispatch From Sierra Leone: Return Home
So, I’ve been back a week, but a lot has been going on. Â I wanted to go back and share some final impressions of what was a fascinating, extremely challenging month in this small West African country I never imagined I’d go and visit (as an aside: under different circumstances, i.e. flights readily available and