28 March, 2025
Takayama in the Spring – A One Shot Story
As I write this the first days of March are quickly giving way to the promise of another magnificent Spring in Japan. Every photographer should have late March-early April marke...
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24 November, 2024
Lesson Learned Again – A One Shot Story
Those of us who travel with film kits live on the knife edge of disaster every time we head out for a day of shooting. Most of our gear is likely 20 to 40 years old, very possib...
31 October, 2024
The Dancer – A One Shot Story
Every so often, if we’re lucky, we’re reminded just how important photography can be in people’s lives. I got lucky the other week when I received a message...
29 June, 2024
One camera, One Lens – Testing the Photo Adage in Japan
Photography is chock full of sayings, adages, call them what you will. F8 and be there. Sunny 16. Most are grounded in some reality. But the one that I think has some applicatio...
For those of us who learned photography shooting Kodak’s Tri-X or Plus-X – bless that emulsion’s sainted memory – hope springs eternal that thereȁ...
4 July, 2023
How I Became A Meme – Life With Generative AI
In a world where fame flames out after a few hours on social media platform, I am here to tell you don’t let it go to your head. One recent weekend, I began to glow in the warm ...
19 June, 2022
The Attraction of Wet Darkroom Prints – My Experience at Hidden Light LLC – By Floyd K. Takeuchi
For those of us of a certain age, no matter what the photo technology in our hands, we’re thinking of the output in terms of photographic prints, not pixels on a display. In my ...
Like many a photographer, I’ve accumulated a couple of drawers worth of cameras and lenses. In my case, reflecting the fact that I’ve owned a camera since 1963, when I was given...