Monthly Archives: July 2012

R.I.P. Velvia

The greens of summers. Paul Simon may have sung proudly about his Nikon camera and his Kodachrome, but those greens he mentioned, well they were really and truly the domain of Velvia. For me, Velvia 50 was the end-all-be-all of film for landscape photography. I discovered it when I was 19 years old in the...

Sunset near Fennville Michigan

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The University of Chicago Workshop Part III: Student Photos and Contest Winners!

A sense of place. Today’s post is the third and final installment on the University of Chicago photography workshop I ran in May. Two earlier posts covered the basics of what I produced and what I tried to teach the 12 students I had with me. Today’s entry is all about what those fellow photographers...

The City Gray - The University of Chicago Workshop Part II

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