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Category Archives: Equipment

The gear I use to create my photography, ranging from cameras and film to the boots I wear.

This is Starting to Become a Habit

Yesterday we had to do a bit of shopping and boy were we shocked when we got the bill.  The problem I believe was we were seeing everything in a new way.  The way of the Wet Plate Process.  It was like we were speaking a secret language, I even noticed a man trying to...

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If At First You Don’t Succeed…

“If you want to be a really skilled photographer you have to shoot every day and continuously challenge yourself with new skills”. I recently heard this great piece of advice and it is something I have always believed in and put into action in my life daily.
In the past few months we have added...

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More Than One Way…to Skin a Cat or Climb an Alp

People are always asking me how we get to the top of the Alps with all the various camera gear we travel with…let alone the Terrier. Well, I am happy to inform you…we take the easy way. Luckily here in Europe many mountain tops are accessible by cable cars. For a few...

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Shedding Some Light on the Situation

There I was, incredibly excited after receiving a box full of newly processed color 120 negatives after waiting 6 months to view them.   Opening the little boxes as if it was Christmas morning once more, the rolled up film inside.  I prepared to ready them for scanning into my computer to view them properly.  When...

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Van Dyke Brown…on a Very Grey Day

As a wet snow streams from the sky, my husband and I are dipping our toes deeper into the Alternative Process Photography pool.
Today’s science project, which is a great way to describe Alternative Process, as my cellar looks more like the laboratory of a mad scientist than my old laundry room. But I digress,...

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Collodion Wet Plate Processing…Photography and Alchemy

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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Sharing the Passion…more from the Expo

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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