“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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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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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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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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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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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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