2 October, 2018
My Dead Dogs Came Back – By Frank H. Wu
My dead dogs have come back to me thanks to photography. I recently found a roll of film I shot circa 1998 but did not develop. Buster and Ding Ding, two mutts, were the exclusi...
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17 August, 2018
Hanging Out With Photographers? For a Price?
As a photographer, but not a professional, I would like to be able to hang out with others who share the hobby. It is enjoyable to talk shop. Yet if we want to do that, at least...
10 August, 2018
Film Photography as the “Long Tail” – By Frank H. Wu
I wonder if film photography will settle down like other avocations, sustainable in its own right, related to but distinct from its digital counterpart. In our economic era, bot...
Rear Window is a great movie, and taking photographs is the main character’s essential trait. Francois Truffaut, whose book turned director Alfred Hitchcock the man into one-nam...
21 July, 2018
The Necessity of Bad Photos – by Frank H. Wu
I need to take more bad photos. What I mean is I ought to shoot more, period. But I know that I learn more from the bad photos than the good ones.
12 July, 2018
The Photos Not Taken – by Frank H. Wu
“Please move along,” the man said. I had wanted to photograph the door he opened, of the brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, along a quiet residential street on an a...
Here is how I repaired my Voigtlander Nokton lens, the 42.5mm for the M43 system. I had dropped it. The lens filter, a B&W ultraviolet model, was shattered, and, worse, stuck on...
11 May, 2018
Kodachrome Movie Review – it’s Good Even If it is About Family, Not Film – By Frank H. Wu
Any film photographer who saw an advertisement for Kodachrome likely reacted as I did: “Gee, I really should check out that movie.” If you follow through, you might be disappoin...