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8 Exposures

I was cleaning out some boxes in my storage area and came across a Polaroid camera and an unopened 2-pack box of Polaroid instant film. Better use it before I toss it and so I did another photo walk today. Only used 1 box so only 8 more frames after

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36 Exposures

Woke up this morning for a photo walk around SoBo before the heat kicked in and grabbed 36 exposures. Felt good to get out and shoot something for myself. It's been too long. Now I am waiting on the prints to be developed. Click the link below if you are

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iPhone vs Camera

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of ditching all but one of my cameras and just use the camera built in to my iPhone. Why? An iPhone can untether the photographer because you have a full stack setup of a camera, a digital darkroom

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VSCO > Adobe

I toggle on/off the urge to use Adobe Lightoom as a catalog library and photo editor for the past 16 years. I paid one price for it back in 2007 and then they went to a subscription-based plan a couple of years back. I moaned, groaned but eventualy relented

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ART::ificial

In lieu of having enough time to go out and photograph something (anything!), I've been generating synthographs. Synthography is a method of generating digital media synthetically using machine learning. This is distinct from other graphic creation and editing methods in that synthography uses artifical intelligence text-to-image modeling to generate synthetic

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Synthography

The new all-in-one website/mood board I built dedicated to my generative AI art creation and curation.

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I've Lost My Photo Mojo

Once upon a time, there was a camera in my hand every weekend off to explore and shoot. The camera was my passport and I went everywhere with it, including dangerous places I wasn't "supposed" to go. I've noticed in the past year, however, that I just can't be bothered.

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Stolen Moments

A camera offers gentle reminders to slow down and enjoy life’s simple moments as they happen. After a while you start to notice the little things, something I would’ve overlooked had I not taken up photography.

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I Am An Imbecile

“Photography is a marvelous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, and art that excites the most astute minds—and one that can be practiced by any imbecile.” — Nadar (1910)

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Why Photography?

A question posed to me recently: What is the purpose in you taking photos? How are you going to use them? Your turn to ask and answer.

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Photo Film Is Expensive

With Kodak raising (again), the price of their film stock, it doesn't make sense to use recreationally anymore. Over the years, I have developed presets inside of Adobe Lightroom to apply to my images. These presets convert a digital image I've captured into a film emulator. I am very pleased

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HipSquares

Spaces | HipSquaresImages taken by a HipstamaticVSCO® A little photo experiment with the Hipstamatic.

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Discovery

You can learn the basics of any camera over a weekend. But it can take decades, maybe even a lifetime, to fully discover photography.

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Cropping My Photo Gear

Just how good is the iPhone as a camera? Good enough for someone like me, a photographer for over three decades, want to sell off almost all of his gear. It is that good. I just sold off the mirrorless Sony A7 and am looking at other options to sell

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Goodbye Adobe

After decades of relying on Adobe photography software to host, edit and organize my archive, it is time to say goodbye. Photoshop and Lightroom are second to none with one exception- a subscription. With all the competition out there in this space, I can no longer justify $120 annually for

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Mylio Photo Organizer

How the hell did this software program help organize thirty years of my photography archives in under an hour? Download, install and sign up for the 30-day free trial. And we're off! Import From External Drives I plugged in my 10TB external hard drive and pointed to where I wanted

2023Book

iPhonetography

Coming to your e-reader in the Spring of 2023

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Flickr

Yes, I have re-upped my Flickr subscription. Time to fill up on that unlimited photos now.

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IPhonetography Tips

There are phases I go back and forth with in my photography such as mobile-only for awhile or a professional camera. This article will discuss my continuing fascination with iPhoneography and tips on ho to make it better.Clean the lens on your iPhoneOur iPhones get stuffed inside pockets, purses,

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Backlogged Photos

Time to make the opportunity to review my backlogged photos, and a new opportunity for me to make new photos.

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Photo Curation

Not photo “editing”, instead, photo culling and photo curation. The art of choosing the photos you care for, the art of image selection. If I shot a thousand photos, which few photos will I select that I want to hold on to? Now that I have all my images organized

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Photographic Progress

The frustration and anxiety caused by obsessing over what makes a “good” photograph is what prevents the majority of we photographers from evolving creatively.I am learning that the quicker I can focus on a subject matter or a theme, the quicker I can progress.

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Digital Over Film Photography

I am on a hiatus with analog film photography for now. The price of film, developing, scanning is getting out of control and is not sustainable for me right now.I love the results but damn. Going all-digital for a while.

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On Photography

There is no getting away from my love of photography and cameras. My favorite thing in the world is going somewhere, anywhere, and just wondering around pointing my lens at things. The simple act of doing so is like mediation to me, and nothing thing else comes close.

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Photo Archive & Curation

2023 is the year I finally go RAID (redundant array of independent disks). After that, a dedicated photo file server. Then organize images with tags, keywords, geotags, faces. Easily searchable. Convert to the Digital Negative format and use as backup One Lightroom catalog per yearly archive as backup. Make yearbook