This weeks Sunday Morning Adventure (SMA) was a trip to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park with fellow NGLFP member Gary Beasley. Kennesaw mountain and its surrounding fields and hills is the site of a major civil war battle that held off the advancing Union army in the summer of 1864. Today it is a small national […]

James Taylor wrote a lyric “I’m gone to Carolina in my mind” in which he dreams of a place he loves. The North Georgia mountains are that place for me and the rivers, streams, and waterfalls call out for me to come visit. Even the rocks and trees beckon to have me come walk among […]

While I try to write something in this blog about my photographic journey and discoveries frequently, I find there are things I think about that I do not wish to share publicly or necessarily chronicle here. So in the style of Edward Weston, I have started a Journal/Day book where I can write more freely, […]

I have been interested in the sepia toned images I have often seen online. My attempts at toning with selenium yielded a nice chocolate brown on Ilford MGFB WarmTone paper but was not so pleasant on MGFB Classic. I ordered the Thiourea Toning kit from Photographers Formulary. It ships with chemistry to make 1Liter of […]

I stumbled upon and interesting series of videos on you-tube illustrating the Bromoil process. It looks kind of fun and is something one could do indoors on cold/rainy/hot day. Basically you bleach your image removing all traces of silver, Fix, dry, rewet, then add a layer of ink where your silver used to be. The […]

  Tim Layton Fine Arts has launched a new Film centered magazine Darkroom Underground. The first issue was release July 1 and was chocked full of useful information for the darkroom and film enthusiast. The magazine will be published quarterly online with print editions possible in 2018. The Darkroom Underground publishes technical and creative articles […]

Over the years I have seen various definitions of photography described as a Craft vs Art. I remember reading a story where a publisher referred to someone (Edward Weston I think) as an Artist and he scratched through the word and wrote Photographer. So what is the difference? There are countless websites and opinion pieces […]