As technology continues to march on, and information overloads us at all turns, I am reaching to the past. I am now awaiting delivery of a Graflex Crown Graphic camera…a camera made sometime in the '50s. It is a larger format, 4X5, camera that is capable of shooting medium format and Polaroid films as well.

I have never used a camera like this and am expecting a bit of a learning curve in order to get up to speed with this style of shooting. However, I am extremely excited to learn this manner of photography and incorporate it into my portfolio. I will recount issues here, as well as include shots in the plog. If you have any pointers, please feel free to pass them along to me.

Tags: photography, hardware, cultural

In an effort to create more quality images, and to just have fun doing things I love, last week I started posting a plog (photo blog). Ideally, it will ultimately showcase new photography, and other visual media, completely disassociated with work; it is strictly ars gratia artis. Some of these images, at the start, may be from a backlog of the literally thousands of images I have taken this year. In time, it will be content created strictly for the plog.

Michelangelo was said to be haunted by the spirit to leave a body of work…now I have not even a thousandth of the skill of the great master. But I wll persevere, nonetheless, in my own small drive to leave a body of work for my girls.

Tags: photography, hardware