10 September, 2024
A Painterly Puzzle – One-Shot Story
Art is often a puzzle. But the above piece is especially lively fun. It’s my 1×4-foot ink-jet print of Sonia Delaunay’s 3×11-foot 1913 painting “Le Bal Bullier.” In 2...
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10 September, 2024
Kodak Ektramax Fireworks and a Cool 110 Tip
The above image is the cover of my Kodak Ektramax 110 camera’s substantial 34-page user manual. It’s more interesting than a straight pic of the camera itself, which Kodak made ...
6 September, 2024
Beyond the Frame – One Shot, Six Stories
At photo exhibits, I look for images that especially grab me. If I find one and the photographer is around, I’ll ask if the photo holds stories that aren’t immediately obvious. ...
4 September, 2024
When Kitsch Becomes Collectible
I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like Minicom...
3 September, 2024
That Time I Played Art Detective — One-Shot Story
Sometimes, the world is indeed small. In 2015, Kate and I moved from a 1,700-square-foot Cape-style house to a 2,700 square-foot retirement condo with exceedingly high cathedral...
27 August, 2024
Folk Art on Wheels — One-Shot Story
Anyone fond of later-20th- and early-21st-century automobiles will enjoy Jim Grey’s “Old Cars Parked” columns and his posts on the “Curbside Classic” site. In them he shoots and...
8 August, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning
In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...
24 July, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount Macro Land
C-mount lenses are the tiny optical jewels worn on the fronts of classic 16mm movie cameras. Their minuscule 17.526mm separation between the camera’s mounting flange and f...