Chase Jarvis has created a photographic subculture from the concept that the best camera is the one you have with you. Your 5 grand DSLR with 10 frame per second shutter rate and ISO 64,000 noiseless performance is of no use to you if its in its case while you are out in the world [...]
Fall Focus, by richard It was one of the last warm days of summer. The reeds and grasses in the bird sanctuary had started to go to seed and the light was getting lower and warmer earlier and earlier. We took the gear for a walk and I mounted the old Nikon 500mm mirror lens [...]
Categories: Bayonne,Experiments,Flowers,Focus,Richard,Sunset,Telephoto
Carny, by richard. The winter in northern New Jersey this year is not motivating me to go out and photograph. The travel budget is depleted and household renovations have been keeping me close to the shop. During some clean up here, I re-discovered the box of black and white negatives that I’ve been carefully archiving [...]
Categories: Archive,Black and White,Film,Jersey City NJ,Old Photos,Richard
In the old days when I was a Ham Radio operator, if a contact suddenly went off the air for an extended period of time, we used the phrase ‘silent key’ when wondering about him. It usually meant that the operator had passed away. If I had to describe my photographic activity for the last [...]
