The Challenge I recently posted about the decline of analog in the same week that I made a handful of 4×5 exposures and ran a roll of slide film through an oldie-but-goodie 35mm camera. Why use film when digital is so much more versatile, so much more of a pure medium? Precisely because it is...
The breakers beat the rocky shore I thought I was a landscape photographer, until my camera met the sea. From chapter 111 of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, “The Pacific,” “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those...
A return trip to a much loved spot I found myself back at the University of Chicago some months ago and was striking a wayward path home when I decided to stop by a lovely spot to pay homage to a favorite photograph of mine. Summer was just beginning and gone was the thick blanket...
The difference between the bay and the coast In my mind, the coast always conjures visions of heavy surf and a battering sea, whereas the bay always suggests a placid body, ripples lapping the shore. The bay reminds me of the Great Lakes and the ocean of a tempest. Of course, the first early morning...
Two Questions This is a really cool post on 1000 memories that provides a few staggering illustrations about the state of photography. As someone who has recently purchased two analog cameras, the analog photo curve on the bottom of the graph below is scary. There is still a market for 48 billion frames of silver...
