Where It All Began

My love of photography began with a camera given to me by my aunt as a graduation gift.  It was her old camera, but it was the world to me.  It was a simple 35mm camera made by Sears.  Well, I think it was actually made by Ricoh, but it was sold by Sears with the Sears name on it.  It used the K mount lens mount.  I had a couple of lenses for it and used it for a year or so before starting my love afair with Canon.  It was the beginning.


Thanks to ebay, I found one tonight.  We'll see if I win.  It would be nice to have it again.

The Lasting Nature of Film

Film reigned for more than 150 years.  During that time, many iconic images were created with it.  Now, you can own a very nice (and not inexpensive) print of some of those images.  


Conde´ Nast, publishers of Vogue, Vanity Fair, and GQ among others, have an online store where they offer high quality prints of images that have appeared in their magazines.  These are not the images you typically find in magazines.  These are works of art by some of the luminaries of the photographic world captured on film.  These images capture writers, actors, athletes and musicians that have shaped our culture.  


These images are amazing.  They are perfect.  They are a source of inspiration.


Take a moment to find a favorite.  Mine is the portrait of Alfred Hitchcock.

10 Rules To Live By

Lomography is a wonderful concept devoted to analog photography.  They provide great info and inspiration.  Best of all they sell unique photographic equipment and specialty films to aid in the pursuit of the happy accident.  Not mired by the need for perfection, Lomography celebrates the unexpected and unusual.


They have created 10 rules to help anyone understand the aim of Lomography.  These rules actually apply regardless of your equipment.

Take your camera everywhere you go

Use it any time – day and night

Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it

Try the shot from the hip

Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible

Don’t think (william firebrace)

Be fast

You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film

Afterwards either

Don’t worry about any rules

Now I have to figure out how to incorporate this in my professional work.