Canopy Amelia Island Florida

I captured this row of trees last September during my 30 year anniversary trip with my wife. We rented a condo with a beach view but had terrible rainy weather for the whole weekend. On the last day I managed to get out early in the morning and take a couple shots. This was along […]

Upscaling in the darkroom

Initially when I built my tiny darkroom 5 years ago I was printing mostly 8×10 images and had a plan for using the adjacent garage minus cars at night if I needed to print larger. However with the purchase of the 5×12 camera I find that I needed 11×14 paper for the contact prints and […]

SMA Shot in the Dark Part II

In my earlier article SMA Shot in the dark I described the difficulty of shooting a low light subject.  The negative came out very thin due to the dark interior so I knew it might be a challenge.  I played with it in Photoshop some to get the feeling of what was needed.  Today I printed […]

New Site colors for Spring 2020

Bored from being quarantined so sprucing things up with new colors from Pantone: Chive 4B5335 and Cinnamon stick 9C4722

Starting Again

In my early twenties I bought my first “real” camera and used it to shoot pictures of my new car. I was not wealthy by any means and could not afford to spend a bunch of money on film and processing.  As I hung out at photo stores I saw how inexpensive black and white […]