I've mostly had pretty good to medium luck using seaweed, bladderwrack specifically, as a film developer, but I live in Reno Nevada on the western edge of the Great Basin, bladd...
Sometimes we spin so fast, that all that is left of us is a motion that can not be caught.
We, as part of an efficient society, do so much and naturally it has to be productive...
Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to a project that was started by Dave Whenham (@elland_in) and John Martin (@TEMLIGHTIMAGES). The project is passing a ...
10 June, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers
Fixer is both cheap and abundant, which is great for those of us that enjoy developing our own negatives. However, in the search for local alternatives for film development, it ...
3 June, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 2: Developing with Caffenol (and Salt) – By Josh Vickers
After my success with reversal processing, I wanted to try my hand at making a homemade developer. Caffenol was the obvious next step, and I, being a temperamental machine fuele...
27 May, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 1: Reversal Processing with Peroxide & Vinegar – By Josh Vickers
What if you could develop and fix film using only products from the grocery store?
What if some supernatural event caused every brick-and-mortar photography store to disappear ...
The Cámara Galletita Lumen is always a bit difficult for me to explain, but it's antecedents are, I think, a bit more straightforward.
I first heard of the Cámara Galletita in ...
Some of us know Kodachrome from the iconic Afghan Girl photo by National Geographic's Steve McCurry. Some of us might even have watched the 2017 movie of the same name, about an...