The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…December 2020
Block Island is a destination I'll never tire of. In fact, retirement is but a month away and I intend to be on the island for the full month of February hoping for dramatic winter conditions !! This month's image was taken on South East Beach in the mid '80s, long before I had any serious darkroom experience much less knowledge. This type of negative design was my foray into large sheet film photography. The Zone System is a systemic method of exposing and processing B&W film...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…November, 2020
This month’s Story Behind Every Photograph featured image is presented in a variation on keeping these Blog posts fresh and interesting to all. Social media is a slippery slope for sure, every now and then a sliver lining emerges. This month's image came about when a photo colleague from the past reached out to me on social media in the hopes of acquiring this image. Read on to see both her motivation for the acquisition and mine for creating the image in the first place. I am...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…October, 2020
. A November 2003 trip to the Page, AZ area had several silver linings I could not have foreseen. A topic for another time but these are the images that would be the 1st successful trials of the Semi-Stand process I was fortunate to perfect in early 2004. I can somewhat relate to having a vivid memory of areas I came upon in the SouthWest in prior years. In that spirit, my long time traveling partner Jack Holowitz "seemed to recall" an area he had visited with another group some years...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…September, 2020
August 19, 2020 was World Photography Day, (WPD). Does photography really need a "day" ?? With all the means to capture a face, an event or breaking news; photography has become an accepted way of life to communicate, many times in place of language. One need look no further than the numerous social media platforms displaying visual photographs and words. That lack of person to person interaction comes with consequences, however, that is not the central theme to my Blog, nevertheless, a...