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SMA Shot in the dark Last weekend I went to visit my sister in Tuscaloosa Alabama. On Sunday I had the chance to visit Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham Alabama. Unfortunately a storm was moving in so I had limited time. The exterior of the old plant had nice lighting but the interiors were very dark even close to windows for […] |
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Winter Blahs Due to a heavy 9-5 workload and temperatures bouncing around this winter I have not been feeling very artistic. Having a cold this weekend isn’t helping. To try and motivate myself to get out and shoot something different I picked up a Rodenstock Imagon 200mm soft focus lens. I set out to my trusty location […] |
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Pyrocat M as a Second Pass Developer I had tried this experiment previously with Pyrocat HD and wanted to see its effect with Pyrocat M. I had seen a post about an olive toner using cachetol in a bleach + redevelop process. The toner is known as IT8. I decided to use dilute Pyrocat M in place of the cachetol toner to […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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 […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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The Stump on a Rock On a warm summer morning during one of my Sunday Adventures to the mountains I stood ankle deep in a creek trying to capture the stillness of rocks and fluidity of water. At one point I slipped on a wet rock and could swear I heard someone exude a muffled snicker at my clumsiness. I […] |