As a photographer, but not a professional, I would like to be able to hang out with others who share the hobby. It is enjoyable to talk shop. Yet if we…
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I wonder if film photography will settle down like other avocations, sustainable in its own right, related to but distinct from its digital counterpart. In our economic era, both global and…
Books, Zines & ExhibitionsWatching the Watcher: An Appreciation of Hitchcock’s Rear Window – By Frank H. Wu
Rear Window is a great movie, and taking photographs is the main character’s essential trait. Francois Truffaut, whose book turned director Alfred Hitchcock the man into one-name “Hitch” the myth, praised…
I need to take more bad photos. What I mean is I ought to shoot more, period. But I know that I learn more from the bad photos than the good…
“Please move along,” the man said. I had wanted to photograph the door he opened, of the brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, along a quiet residential street on…
Here is how I repaired my Voigtlander Nokton lens, the 42.5mm for the M43 system. I had dropped it. The lens filter, a B&W ultraviolet model, was shattered, and, worse, stuck…
Books, Zines & ExhibitionsKodachrome Movie Review – it’s Good Even If it is About Family, Not Film – By Frank H. Wu
Any film photographer who saw an advertisement for Kodachrome likely reacted as I did: “Gee, I really should check out that movie.” If you follow through, you might be disappointed that…
I increasingly appreciate the social aspect of photography. Although I belong among the admirers of Vivian Maier — who could not be fascinated by the story of the street photographer-nanny discovered…
Now as never before I like looking at people. My obsession with taking photos has made me much more interested in other people. I have to be careful not to stare…
