July 2009
20 posts
Tokyo Camera Style →
For camera geeks. Spectacular.
Cameras are wonderful little contraptions…
People who shoot film simply do because they choose to, and the Photo Culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I ask to photograph their camera, and usually post it here the same day.
—Tokyo Camera Style
Photography is easy, photography is hard →
Paul Graham, writing for the 2009 Yale MFA Photography program graduation yearbook:
It’s so difficult because it’s everywhere, every place, all the time, even right now. It’s the view of this pen in my hand as I write this, it’s an image of your hands holding this book, Drift your consciousness up and out of this text and see: it’s right there, across the room - there…...
What’s in Your Phone?—Lens Blog, NYTimes →
The photos I’ve posted here have all been, to this point, shot and edited on my iPhone. I’ll be writing more on that soon—but it looks like we’re seeing the start of something.
The little secret is getting less so. With almost every passing day, it seems that more and more professional photographers are admitting (perhaps a bit sheepishly) that, yes, there are moments...
Force of nature—Wired →
Robert Buelteman works with a photography process that destroys the flowers that are its subject.
Buelteman’s technique is an elaborate extension of Kirlian photography (a high-voltage photogram process popular in the late 1930s) and is considered so dangerous and laborious that no one else will attempt it—even if they could get through all the steps.
—Wired
Let's get this started
Most people have nothing to say about anything, but they’re usually willing to say it anyway. Any chance they get.
Having said that, welcome to my weblog.
I’ve tried this before, and I’ll probably try it again—sometime after this one is no more than a file, not found—but what you are reading is the latest iteration of an effort to put my thinking into a more...
June 2009
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