On prints and darkrooms: An end of January film photography debate

Shogren Wall, 16 Jan 2023 Olympus XA/Fuji C200 Up until about the mid-nineties, unless you were getting slide film processed, the default method of receiving and viewing what you shot on film was prints. They were tangible items, a physical record of an analog format. I remember when I managed the Electronics/Cameras Department at the...

Introducing the Olympus XA into my camera stable

I already went ahead and got the fancy Gordy's camera strap for my Olympus XA! This month marks three years back into film photography. When I got back into it, I thought I'd be only attracted to big, bulky, metallic cameras like my Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and Minolta SR-T 101. And I am still attracted...

A Stub Stewart Hike, 2 Jan 2023

Happy 2023, everyone! Hope that this will be a good year. (Fingers crossed.) Emee and I stayed home this year. After a decade-plus of being out of town every New Years, this is still a big deal to me. Perhaps we'll restart this tradition again. Anyways, Emee's friends decided to do a hike on Monday...

My best photos 2022

Textured Trees, NE 11th Ave north of Knott, 16 Dec 2022. I really like how this shot came out. While the day was bright, sunny, and cloudless, this street was covered with heavy shade. It almost looks like a night shot with flash, but nope. (I added about a stop of exposure in post.)Camera: Ricohflex...

Goals and plans for my film photography in 2023

My Ricohflex Dia twin-lens reflex camera. I hope to use this camera more in 2023! It's just been three years since I got back into film photography, with the purchase of my Minolta Hi-Matic 7s in January of 2020. Since then, I've shot hundreds of rolls of film, purchased dozens of cameras, and learned how...

Sawyers Nomad 620 box camera: A Portland made camera!

After getting my Ricohflex Dia in spring, finding a simple medium format box camera wasn't really a priority. Why go backwards? But there was one particular model that piqued my interest, and I kept it on my radar. When a specimen turned up at Blue Moon Camera for just $13, I bought it. The particular...

A wrap-up of my life in film photography: 2022

Trunk sleeps three. The Cully, 2 Dec 2022 Camera: Minolta XD5 Lens: Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 Film: Ilford HP5+ I'm just finishing up the third year that I've been back into film. It's been a fun adventure, so far. This year I bought a few more cameras, sold or got rid of a few, and...

An Art and Publication Year in Review

My table set-up from the Lords Luggage Holiday Market, 17 Dec 2022 It's a positively frigid night here in Portland (20F/-6C, with a windchill like 5F, and freezing rain coming down), a good type of night to reflect back on how my art life fared in 2022. It was overall "good", but there's room for...