Recent Entries
The Scenic Route Photo Opportunity
**For years I have gone home from work via different routes depending on mood, time, and traffic. I have what I call my scenic route that passes by some vignettes I hope to photograph “one day”. I saw my friend Brian had taken the long way home after a hike in the woods and found […]
Products for the Large Format Photographer
**Over the years there have been countless articles about gadgets and gear for small format cameras and a few for large format users. The simplicity of a field camera often keeps us away from gadgets, especially electronic ones. So I am going to start my list of things I use in the field that help […]
Lessons from 2018
**Photography is an adventure and provides continual challenges and new opportunities. So I am using this post to reflect back over the year to remind myself of the issues I faced through out this year so I can learn from my mistakes and successes. Chemistry with long shelf life does go bad. I had a […]
Nagaoka Seisakusho 4×5 Field Camera
**I saw this little gem posted on ebay as an Ikeda Anba but knew it was something different. A little research leads me to believe it is an early Nagaoka Seisakusho 4×5 field camera but it may be another maker too. It has a lovely dark cherry finish with brass hardware. It weighs a mere […]
High Shoals Falls Print II
**Initially I Iiked the cold tones of the original print, but I was doing some toning and thought why not try it with this one. It has strong blacks that I wanted to preserve as dark tones so my experiment was to determine if Selenium + Thiourea would give me the desired effect. After a […]
Amicalola and the Stump
**Not only rivers and waterfalls capture my attention, but stumps and fallen trees seem to be a recurring theme. On one of my Sunday Morning Adventures to Amicalola I took the opposite path from Edge of the World to check on a fishing spot after a heavy rain. I noticed this huge stump was beached […]
Wise words
**I am always seeking inspiration and education in my photographic journey. We often learn from the masters or follow well known photographers in order to understand, emulate, or incorporate their photographic style. I have often heard the name “Tillman Crane” but never researched him until today. I only got two blog posts into his site […]
Ryan Memorial Westview Cemetery Atlanta
**During the field-trip with NGLFP to Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, all three of us converged on a large monument for Stephen Andrew Ryan upon which sits a mesmerizing mourner. The mourner leans at the base of a rough hewn cross and stone ivy is growing up the sides of the base and cross. Her stare and features […]
Nancytown Creek Falls
**Today’s Sunday Morning Adventure took me to up to Mount Airy, Georgia (not where they filmed Andy Griffith’s Mayberry) to NancyTown Creek Falls. I left the house around 6:00 AM and stopped for gas and coffee. Then headed north on mostly 4 lane highways to get to Mount Airy. The sky was striped with orange […]
Keeping things fresh
**After last weekend’s outing I had several sheets of film to develop. The first couple came out a little thin but acceptable. Then tragedy struck. The developer, Pyrocat HD in Glycol, was suddenly failing to fully develop the negatives. And oddly there was a color shift from the usual tan to a pinkish color that […]