Photography as a gateway drug
It has been a long time that I have been noticing stuff. I’ve daydreamed, watching light and shadows dance on the ceiling, and sometimes recorded these images on film or
Category: Misc.
things that might not fit in a category.
View from above
I have been making reimagined landscapes for over a year. They are there but they aren’t there. They are from my imagination and formed on paper with photo chemistry. The
I won’t show my bad results but..
The summer before COVID hit I was fortunate to meet up with a friend of mine who had a studio in Connecticut. He’s a retired Art Teacher, who is a
Peroxide Reversals
A long while ago when I learned you could do hopefully simple reversals with photo paper ( that is you make the exposure and instead of using developer stop and
silver magnets and trickle tanks
If you do darkroom photography you might end up with fixer and wonder what to do with it. Should you toss it down the drain or try to recycle it
leaf and water
i slept last night and wasn’t still. I closed my eyes and saw a leafit floated down the stream, not too fast or slowit bounced off of rocks got stuck
Its been .. forever
Yeah I know it has been forever since I wrote something here. I have a few excuses, but the long and short of it is that my life was turned
What to do …
For years I have had a camera and while I have always known what to do (push button send out or process myself) I have never really known what to
riverside / near wachemoket
sometimes i go under the bridge and look to the other side this time i looked across the river to wachemoket makes me wonder what life was like without the
the millpond
sometimes i just leave i drive and don’t know where i will end up i expose some film i put it away and eventually find myself with processed film ..
ARAX60 !
it seems that i have been asleep at the wheel for the past 8 months but i assure you i haven’t ! its been a really strange new year (
peroxide based photographic reversals
im back at attempting to making direct postive reversals again. there have been a number of different ways to do these over the years, some use toxic chemistry ( sulfuric
ilex seminat
admittedly i might have a few too many lenses. i don’t have curio cabinets full of them, or 4 shelves piled high but i am always a sucker for a
difference between lenses and images
there are all sorts of lenses. some are meant to be sharp and corrected and some are not. the ones that are not are usually soft focus lenses, which were made
make photographs like it is the last time
sometimes i make a photograph and it is the last time i see whatever it is i am photographing. this is a gas station that was on this corner