Details of the Appalachian Trail – Rocks and Roots. The ability for roots of trees to take hold in rock crevices has always amazed me. This particular pair of trees did so with tremendous style, creating a nearly abstract artwork within the rock cliff. The colors of the tree roots is almost the same as […]

Often when I am metering a scene I record the EV values low and high and determine where to place them on the zone system scale. I usually use the average EV function of my meter and place it on f22 or higher as a starting point. Many of my scenes are shot in wooded […]

The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville GA is hosting its third exhibition of Ansel Adams photographs “The Masterworks. I saw the last exhibition featuring similar photographic works from photographers Before and After Adams , which showed his influences as well as those he influenced. Definitely worth a day trip from Atlanta and worth the […]

Details of the Appalachian Trail – Staircase on Blood Mountain. I should call this the Devil’s staircase because it took the wind out of me and several other hikers to get up it. It is only about a 50 foot rise in elevation but is merely the first in a series of steep inclines and […]

I have been interested in the sepia toned images I have often seen online. My attempts at toning with selenium yielded a nice chocolate brown on Ilford MGFB WarmTone paper but was not so pleasant on MGFB Classic. I ordered the Thiourea Toning kit from Photographers Formulary. It ships with chemistry to make 1Liter of […]

I stumbled upon and interesting series of videos on you-tube illustrating the Bromoil process. It looks kind of fun and is something one could do indoors on cold/rainy/hot day. Basically you bleach your image removing all traces of silver, Fix, dry, rewet, then add a layer of ink where your silver used to be. The […]