Analog Forever
July 9th, 2023
I’m pleased to announce that one of my photos was selected for the upcoming “Analog Forever” show at Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. I shot “Turkey Man” many years ago at a turkey farm near Athens, Ohio. I shot it with my Leica M2 and a 35mm f/2 Canon lens on Tri-X film which I developed in D-76 1:1. Pretty thoroughly analog…
July 4
July 4th, 2023
A few flag photos to mark the holiday
Gallery Shows
July 1st, 2023
I’ve recently had two photos selected for gallery shows. The photo above will be in a show entitled “Light” at the Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina July 7-29.
And below is the photo that the Springfield Museum of Art has chosen for this year’s member show.
That’s my wonderful friend and model Nevaehlleh in the photo above that I call Desert Flower.
Dance in Nature
May 27th, 2023
I’ve been photographing the nude in nature for more than 20 years. I’ve been photographing dance since 1969. I’ve decided it’s time to merge these two subjects and see what happens.
The lovely and talented Michie Bee got me started.
I hope to do a lot more of this style of work over the summer. I will work with Michie more when she is available, but I’m looking for more dancers to be part of this project. Age, gender, ethnicity are not issues. Just looking for folks who can dance and be graceful out in the lovely wilds of nature. Please contact me if you are interested in being included in this project. Nudity is not required.
Pinhole Day 2023
May 2nd, 2023
This year’s Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day photos.
Now I have to pick which one to upload to the pinhole day website.
I’m going to think about it for a few days before I decide.
Sunday is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
April 28th, 2023
I’m getting ready to do my annual pinhole photo for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day this Sunday, April 30. I do this every year, so I thought I’d post a few of my past pinhole photos. The one above was picked off the pinhole day website by the Washington Post to publish with their story about the day in 2014. It was taken with a Panasonic G5 and a Pinwide commercially-made wide-angle pinhole. This pinhole has been my favorite over the years. I used a tripod because I needed a slightly long exposure, even outdoors, for this photo. It was taken at ISO 400 at 1/13th second. Thanks to the mirrorless camera I was able to compose using the camera viewfinder…a new thing that wasn’t possible with older cameras, even digital ones.
The next year I was still using the G5, but I was able to hand-hold the camera at a 1/5th second exposure thanks to the in-body image stabilization. ISO was 800, about as high as I liked to go with that camera. The photo below was intended to show off the infinite depth of focus that is part of the nature of a pinhole. That’s a finger puppet, made much larger than Ayn, my model who was holding it. It was inches from the camera.
In 2017 I had a new camera, a Panasonic GX-8. That is a wonderful camera, the best digital camera I’ve owned. I still love it and still use it, despite its old age in digital camera years. For the photo below I went up to 1600 ISO, but used a tripod and a long 8 second exposure. I had my wonderful model, Ayn, sit still on the bed for a few seconds, then move quickly to the position standing by the window to achieve the double-exposure effect…though it was just one long exposure.
Here’s the GX-8 with the Pinwide pinhole that I was still using:
In 2021 I was still using the GX-8 and the Pinwide pinhole for the photo below. But this time I took the ISO up to 6400, which allowed me again to hand hold the camera and use a shutter speed of 1/30th second. This pinhole photo caught the attention of the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society in England. They asked to publish it along with a short essay about my work with pinhole photography. This photo of my lovely model, Eden, was also selected for an exhibit of photos by the Greater Dayton Photography Group.
Last year I had a new camera and it required a new pinhole. I took the photo below with a Nikon Z7II and a commercially-made body cap pinhole. The new pinhole is in a Nikon F mount. I use a “dumb” adapter to mount it on the Z camera. This photo was taken at 1/50th of a second, hand held using ISO 3200. With this new camera I’m able to do reasonable photos going to as high as 25,600 ISO, so hand-holding isn’t a problem. It also has image stabilization, which helps with hand-holding. Eden was the model again last year.
Here’s the new camera and the pinhole I used last year. I plan to use this camera with a Thingyfy Pinhole Pro S on Sunday for this year’s pinhole photo. It is also a wide-angle pinhole. It’s not as wide as the old Pinwide pinhole, but that micro 4/3 “lens” won’t cover the full-frame sensor of the Z7II.
Joysome
April 10th, 2023
I’ve received some photos of the photo of BlueRiverDream in the Joysome exhibit in Boulder, Colorado. Thanks to Greg Holden for sending these photos along to BlueRiverDream who sent them on to me.
You can see photos of all the images on display at the Joysome website.
In a few days the exhibit will come down from the locations around Boulder and move to the Children’s Hospital Colorado where it will stay until June 9.
It’s a great honor and a pleasure to have one of my favorite photos of one of my favorite models getting such fine exposure.
Brigman/White Book Published
April 5th, 2023
I’ve published a book of the best of my Brigman/White project photos on Amazon. It’s a small book, just 7″x7″, 41 toned black and white photos in a 46-page book.
The photos are both new work done for this project and older photos reprocessed in the pictorial style. Some were taken in the Newark, Ohio, area where Clarence H. White did much of his work, including in some of his favorite locations. For some, I traveled to the Desolation Wilderness and Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern California, where Anne Brigman did much of her work.
Some, but, as you can see from the cover, not all of the photos are nudes, as is appropriate for tributes to these two pioneering photographers. Brigman photographed herself and other women nude in the mountain wilderness in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Her self-portraits are likely the first nude self-portraits by a woman in the history of photography.
More Black and White
March 30th, 2023
As I was reviewing some older files I came across these three photos that looked like good choices for my black and white portrait project. So, here they are.
Ayn in Black and White
March 15th, 2023
