12 September, 2024
Negatives from the Original 1888 Kodak Camera
I’ve been digitizing negatives for over 15 years and collecting them for almost 40. I have never seen any of the original Kodak camera negatives, so when I recently looked...
11 September, 2024
Shooting Kite Surfing
Kite surfing is quite spectacular but difficult to photograph. As with any water sport, the main difference that affects the results is whether or not the photographer is embedd...
10 September, 2024
A Painterly Puzzle – One-Shot Story
Art is often a puzzle. But the above piece is especially lively fun. It’s my 1×4-foot ink-jet print of Sonia Delaunay’s 3×11-foot 1913 painting “Le Bal Bullier.” In 2...
10 September, 2024
Kodak Ektramax Fireworks and a Cool 110 Tip
The above image is the cover of my Kodak Ektramax 110 camera’s substantial 34-page user manual. It’s more interesting than a straight pic of the camera itself, which Kodak made ...
6 September, 2024
Beyond the Frame – One Shot, Six Stories
At photo exhibits, I look for images that especially grab me. If I find one and the photographer is around, I’ll ask if the photo holds stories that aren’t immediately obvious. ...
Ibraar Hussain recently posted a review of a Chinon CE-4 and his experiences with it which I found very interesting. So interesting that a few days later a house-clearance, unte...
3 September, 2024
That Time I Played Art Detective — One-Shot Story
Sometimes, the world is indeed small. In 2015, Kate and I moved from a 1,700-square-foot Cape-style house to a 2,700 square-foot retirement condo with exceedingly high cathedral...
3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...
