Before the holidays I received an email asking if I would take some Christmas photos of a young military family before the Father deployed once again to the Middle East. I am not known as a Portrait Photographer but I was honored to be given the task.
It was very important to me that...
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When we started upon this journey into film photography it was my husband who was the real catalyst for this venture. He did endless hours of research and was fearless about putting this knowledge into practice. He decided that what interested him the most was an old process called Collodion Wet Plate, which produces an...
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Happy Saint Nicolas Tag from us here in Ladenburg.
Sunday, Dec 6 th here in Germany all the little children awake to find that Saint Nicolas visited their homes and filled their boots full of wonderful things. Most times those gifts are bright shinny apples and colorful oranges.
I found this wonderful description on a website “The...
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So, today it is official. I can finally wish you all a very Merry Christmas or as they say in German…Fröhlich Weihnacten!!
Not only does the 1st Advent signify the beginning of the Christmas holiday season…it also welcomes once again our annual village Weihnachtsmarkt. This fairy tale village of tiny pine covered wooden...
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Through the Large Format Photography forum we have been lucky enough to meet a fellow large format addict…who is denial of the aforementioned affliction.
It was he who told us about the Photo Expo in Houten Netherlands, so we arranged a meet up at the event.
Eddie Gunks, with a character as large as his camera, he...
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Our nugget of gold as mentioned in the last blog, turned out to be a hand turned, hand ground Derogy lens, made in Paris around 1860.
This lens which will be used for portrait photography, in a large format studio camera. It is a lens that comes for sale once in a lifetime, so you can...
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Last Sunday, we ventured up to the Netherlands to a town just south of Amsterdam called Houten for their Photo Expo.
We arrived under beautiful blue skies to the conference centers already packed parking lots. A shocker since we arrived spot on 11am which was their opening time. People were bursting to get in and share...
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