LIFE: Part One

28Oct09

Taking a break from the usual YDDoI posts (at least until I figure out how to put multiple galleries in one post). I present to you a collection of my favorite underrated and perhaps less famous photographs from LIFE’s photo archives. Some of them which I have printed, framed and hanging on my bedroom wall and around the house

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Tags: Black and White, History, Life Magazine, Photography, Photojournalism

Blast from the Past: American Pie

23Oct09

No, not the movie silly!
If I were to make a list of the greatest songs of all times, Don Mclean’s American Pie would definitely be right at the top somewhere.

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Tags: 70s, American Pie, Don McLean, Golden Oldies, Music

October 17th: World Toy Camera Day

17Oct09

How many toy cameras do you own? and what’s your favorite?

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Tags: Film, Lomography, October 17th, Photography, Toy Cameras, Toy Cameras Day

Airport Stories: In Technicolor

09Oct09

Camera: Holga CFN 120
Film: Fujo Pro 400H
Where: Dubai Airport

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Tags: Airport, Canoscan 8800, Dubai, Fujo Pro 400H, holga CFN 120, Lomography

Daytime Hallucinations: Part Two

09Oct09

This time, it’s Airport Edition.

The picture above has received a Daily Deviantion on DeviantART.com.

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Camera: Holga 120 CFN
Film:Fuji Pro 400H
Technique: Double exposure.
Scanned from negative and converted to B&W in PS.

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Tags: Canoscan 8800, Double Exposure, Dubai Airport, Fuji Pro 400H, holga, Lomography

A Moment of Silence

08Oct09

Irving Penn
June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009

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Tags: Fashion, Icon, Irving Penn, Masters of Photography, Photography, RIP

Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Gregory Colbert

24Sep09

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Gregory Colbert is a film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.

All of the pictures below are from his Ashes and Snow project.

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Tags: Ashes and Snow, Fine Art, Gregory Colbert, Human, Inspiration, Nature, Photography

Experiment 02: Salty Texture

18Sep09

If you like me, love to experiment with film and explore new techniques, Tipster is the place for you. A collection of great articles about film experiments and camera modifications posted almost on a daily basis by the Lomo community.

While looking through the Tipster archive, I stumbled upon this great article. A simple experiment that requires salt, water, developed piece of negative and little bit of patience . So I thought I’d give it a try and see if it works. Of course all the credits goes to Mandi for sharing this wonderful technique with us over at Lomography.com.

Now let’s get things rolling! Prepare your negative strip. I suggest you do this one frame at a time, so cut each frame separately.

Prepare your mixture. The more salt you add the grainier the texture will get so at this step the amount of salt is up to you.

Let your film soak for an hour or so.

You can always thicken the mixture for a more dramatic result

Take it out and leave it to dry. When it’s all dried up scan your negative and prepare to be amazed!

Here’s what my picture looked like before (taken with a Nikon Fm10 & Kodak Gold 200).

And what it looks like now! I love how visible those little salt crystals are.

I really like how it turned out and will definitely be try this Salt n Soak trick on one of my 120s

Until then, adios!

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Tags: Experimental Photography, Film, Lomography, Nikon Fm10, Salt

Fedex Does It Again

17Sep09

One word: unbelievable!

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Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: M.C. Escher

16Sep09

Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17 1898 – March 27 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations.

Relativity, lithograph, 1953. (my personal favorite)

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Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Rafal Milach

15Sep09

Dissapearing Circus* by Rafal Milach

For more than 40 years, circus center in Julinek used to employ up to 1500 stuff workers including artists, circus school teachers, technicians and others. Circus city was built in the middle of Kampinoski National Park 30 km away from Warsaw. Due to financial problems, the center was closed almost 10 years ago. Huge area emptied. Circus city is slowly dying. The photographer Rafal Milach invited few retired circus atists to take their portraits at the place where some of them had been working for over 30 years.

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Tags: Photography, Photojournalism, Rafal Milach, World Press Photo

Ilford Session: Hyperthermia

18Aug09

Camera: Holga 120 CFN

Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400

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Tags: Black and White, Film, holga, Ilford HP5 Plus 400, Photography

Ilford Session: A Dreamer

17Aug09

This is the first part of the Ilford Session series I’m planning to post in the next couple of days.

More pictures to come, I promise!

Camera: Holga 120 CFN

Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400

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Tags: Black and White, Film Photography, holga, holga CFN 120, Ilford HP5 Plus 400, Lomography

The Silent Gathering

24Jul09

“Losing people should be sudden, Arnie, his father’s most recent letter had read. It’s never easy no matter what the circumstances, but having it drag on and on is just unreasonable. There should be a moment, and when that moment’s gone, the person should be, too. Then those left behind should be allowed to go through whatever they need to go through. Grief is hard enough without being harassed by living ghosts. But I’m losing your mother in bits and pieces, one memory at a time“
-God is Dead, Ron Currie Jr.

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Nikon Fm10
Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Klick Photopoint Max 200. Expired since 2007
Click to enlarge.

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Tags: Expired Film, God is Dead, Klick Photopoint Max 200, Nikon Fm10, Quote, Ron Currie Jr.

Of Film and Accidents

29Jun09

Click to enlarge.

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Tags: Kodak Gold 200, light leaks, Nikon Fm10