Defeating the Curl

How to scan curled negatives flat using a glass insert, and packing peanuts.

Film Based Sports Photography?

Today's topic: Sports Photography!

Wait? Don't I shoot film cameras that lack motor drives and 300mm lenses? Don't I use crazy contraptions that won't focus for me and often require me to stop shooting while I empty it? Yes! Yes I do! And I'm proud to say that I enjoy shooting sports with them.
I've come [...]

Absence of Ego

How editing seventy year old negatives enlightened my photographic mind.

Stumbling onto some prints.

Last Saturday I took a walk to the Tweed Museum of Arts. Among the works currently hanging on the walls was a print of Paul Strand's Wall Street, and two of Garry Winogrand's prints from his Women are Beautiful collection.
No big point here. Just that I didn't expect to stumble onto such works in a [...]

Flickr Taxonomy - The 'This is my life' Users

Flickr Taxonomy
As I spend more and more time on Flickr, I tend to notice a few characteristics of other photographers that use the site. From these characteristics, I’ve been mentally filing them away into different groups of photographers. Now that they’ve been in my head long enough, I'm creating a series of posts to classify [...]

Philosophy from a tea bag

The other day I was at my girlfriend's place, and was offered a cup of tea. While drinking the tea I took a moment and looked at the little tab at the end of the tea bag's string. Now, I'm not one for the fortune cookie sized philosophical quips that often appear on such products, [...]

Future proof your photos

For anyone who reads this and owns a camera of any type, I have a quick question for you. Do you make prints of your photos?
I love the current state of technology where I can shoot a photo, post it on Flickr, and by sundown have two thousand people across the globe already have viewed [...]