You might recognize this shot from the high-key shoot I did with the ever-fantastic Youko Sunshine. You might very well remember it better than the Legend of Zelda reference I slipped into the title, as one of those two things happened this century. I’ve been monkeying with alternative methods of printing my photos, and one of them is making some [...]

Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to Meg Yamagute, who’s finally got her page up and running. Other photographers you might want to check out are Alfie Goodrich, Denis Vasilov, and Andrew Hollian. I promise I’ve got a ton of content in the pipe…. the problem is, actually, I’ve got so many photos, that I’m being a lot more [...]

I’m generally against gimmicks. Star wipes are outside my palatte, unless it involves Flanders in the garden. But there’s one particular visual gimmic that I love, when it’s done well. It reminds me of Led Zeppelin. Bonham mastered that just-offbeat playing style, keeping things rhythmically together, but just off-kilter enough. I think that’s the best way to explain the freeze-and-drag effect of [...]

I’d never cross-processed a roll of film until just now. The idea of taking a risk, and using nonstandard chemicals to develop your film seemed a bit scary. But I took that risk, and I was underwhelmed. Not that I didn’t like the results, but I spend so much time trying to tinker with the colors of the scanner to [...]

I had the chance to teach a class on playing with water a little while back, and in the middle of it, I pulled out some of the soon-to-be-extinct Ektachrome E100G. And then proceeded to nail the timing exactly. Yeah. I’m not usually that good, but here’s a great reflection through a waterdrop on honest-to-Eastman Kodak slide film. Which is [...]

Stuart Ablett is a fantastic Tokyo-based woodworker who I’ve had the great fortune to meet. When his daughter said she wants a chess set for her birthday, he didn’t exactly swing by Don Quixote and pick up the cheap plastic set. He really went all out, and the results are beautiful. the pieces were turned on a lathe – except [...]

The economics of film are different than digital. There’s a cost involved in every photo. Not that every photo isn’t some measurable amount of wear and tear on a digital camera, but somehow it’s less tangible than with film. You could take the cost of your film, of developing and scanning, add it all together, and divide by 36. Or, [...]