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It’s The People, Too: Ten Portraits
When it comes to traveling, the people are as important as the place. Almost without fail, it is the places where I made connections with people that I remember the most fondly. Paris was beautiful,...
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A Guide to Cross-Processing
I remember my first exposure to cross-processing. Back in college, I was lucky to have a lot of friends and acquaintances who were photography enthusiasts; most shot digital but a few dabbled in film....
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Something New For Me: Slide Film as Positives!
The first roll of slide film I ever shot was Ektachrome 200G, gifted to me by the friend who introduced me to the concept of cross-processing. I’d never heard of it– you develop slide film that should...
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A Holga Update: It Gets Weirder
This little toy camera continues to be a fickle friend. After the slew of wonderful suggestions I received about my Holga struggles, I felt re-energized to give my plastic camera another shot. (It...
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What A Difference The Light Makes
Photography is all about light. With digital photography, it’s much easier to manipulate the light of an image you take. But the best pictures are always rooted in real life, in the way light is...
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Istanbul in Black-and-White
Istanbul is overwhelming for the senses. The smells of coffee and fish and slow-cooked meat and exhaust. The call-to-prayer echoing from every minaret. The sun on the Bosphorus, the yellow flash of...
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The Zorki Photo Challenge
Find an old camera shop, buy a cheap camera, shoot a few rolls with it. And extra points if it’s ex-Soviet. I received these instructions from Stephen Dowling of Zorki Photo back when I was in Kuala...
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Seeing Double: The Wild Side of the Holga
When it’s good, it’s REALLY GOOD. I’ve written twice about my struggles with my plastic Holga camera: the film that came out blank, the strange solarized color prints. I’ve gone through phases of...
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Shooting A Discontinued Roll
I am constantly learning about film photography. I’ve been shooting and developing it since I was 8 years old, but I’ve never formally studied photography. Whether it’s learning about new cameras,...
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A False Start
My old Soviet Start camera is my problem child. It was fine at first– the initial roll was a beauty and I couldn’t wait to lug this glorious brick all over the city. Then, in the middle of the second...
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What a Difference the Camera Makes: iPhone vs. Analogue
Most of the photographs on this blog come from one of my analogue cameras, usually my 35mm Pentax. But there’s one digital camera in my arsenal. It’s my iPhone 5s, and I love it as much as my “real”...
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When Film Goes Weird
I shoot a lot of film, and most of the time I stick to the tried-and-true films I prefer: Fujifilm Superia XTRA 400, Ilford HP5+, Ektar 100, and so on. But sometimes, I try something different just to...
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Sri Lanka and My Plastic Camera Memories
There’s no reason I should have ended up in Sri Lanka, honestly. I never applied to go to the TBC Asia conference. After World Travel Market in London, I figured I’d head directly back to Istanbul and...
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Seeing The World Through My Yashica TLR
Let me tell you a secret. I am terrible with cameras. I can take pictures, I don’t mean that. I mean the technical part, the machine part– I don’t find it intuitive. Perhaps it’s part of the reason I...
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Fits and Starts and California Dreaming
When I bought my glorious and problematic KMZ Start camera in Prague, there was only one visible problem with it: the film counter was broken. The film counter lets you know how many frames have...
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The Beach At Night
We were done with the party. The scent of pot and the sounds of tipsy forty-somethings singing along with The Zombies became fainter and fainter and we walked into the darkness away from the Santa...
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Postscript: Black-and-White Trains in Sri Lanka
I spent so much time riding trains in Sri Lanka that I shot a lot of different kinds of film: low-speed color film, high-speed color film, slide film, and black-and-white. But when it came time to...
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A Blue Golden Gate Bridge
I go through phases with slide film. Sometimes I kick myself for not shooting it frequently enough. Cross-processed or developed straight, the results can be really special, with massively saturated...
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Shoot Before Dawn In Galle, Sri Lanka
Wake up before dawn in Galle. The seaside Sri Lankan city, wrapped in its colonial fort and perched on turquoise water, stuns at all hours. The muggy hot streets are filled with old men on bikes,...
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Water Trekking And Shooting Analogue
I run a low-tech photography operation here. Shooting film doesn’t require the constant acquisition of fancy equipment that digital does. One of my favorite cameras to shoot with is basically a...
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