2026-10-12Hello! I hate the color in this image!Why do museums and exhibitions have such awful lighting? To my untrained eye, the color of this beige machine looks ugly. In person, it was fine. In the end, I caved and let a preset do the work of recoloring this image.And the display! Modern displays have advanced so far, so I didn't know how to deal with the strobe display of this Macintosh device. It has no smoothing whatsoever, and I could see the flicker in person.I would have needed to take…

2026-10-10Hello!I looked at a pumpkin design online that was way too complicated. It's also a bit too early to cut through pumpkins for Halloween, but I went to try this anyway.I adjusted the focus of my camera lens to make the pricks of light that shine through the dots look out of focus. They look blurry, but also increase in size. Dots become orbs of light.The dotted patterns seem to be a recurring theme with my photography. I just like the idea of polka dots.In post processing, I adjusted…

The Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence. Photograph by the author. I’ve recently returned from a week’s holiday in Florence, a much-needed recharge for me, both artistically and to remedy my exhaustion from my day job. I have visited Florence before, but that was back when I was eighteen-years-old doing my A-Level Art. So last week’s visit felt like exploring a new place, particularly the Galleria dell'Accademia and the Uffizi Galleries, as well as the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, the Bargello,…

I always have a good time using my Olympus XA, but this time I wasn’t fully happy with the scans I got back from my lab. The colors all looked subdued, and contrast was low. This lab normally sends me scans with color and contrast that can be used as is. I had some trouble making these look as I wanted them to in Photoshop and I didn’t always succeed. But here are some that turned out at least okay. These are on Fujicolor 200, by the way, and I made these shots either at Holliday Park or…

From afar, the R train subway entrance at the northwest corner 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge doesn’t warrant a second glance. It looks like any other street-level entryway, with the Helvetica signage, the concrete staircase, and the no-slip step tread at the top of the stairs. But look closer, and some unique details emerge—like the unusually thick cast iron sides of the entrance. On those slightly rusty cast-iron sides, you can see strange design motifs. One appears to be a cross,…

2026-10-07Hello!This might be wonky speak, but I'm challenging myself to find something interesting without giving away the photo spot. If I have to depend on a local landmark to make the photo interesting, I'm not exercising creative muscles and making original work. Find something mundane and ordinary, make it photo-worthy.I found this lump of metal on a rack for some event project, as material to construct a stage or a banner or something.They were stacked so cleanly I had to capture a photo…

2026-10-06Hello!More extreme ISO after yesterday's monochrome image. I think the digital noise is less obvious in this photograph because it's taken outside with oodles of sunlight, rather than the dark innards of an old piano.In this case, the noise is intentional to experiment with the limits of my camera. But I would have a hard time running noise reduction to give a clean image; post processing only works so far. In fact, the camera failed to produce a raw file of data to go with this…

2026-10-05Hello!I've messed with two parts of the exposure triangle before: the shutter speed and the aperture. I can make motion go by in a blur and shorelines as clear as glass. I can make the sun peek through in starry spokes, and create that fancy depth look that smartphone cameras are trying to replicate.Now, I'm messing around with the final leg: the ISO. This is a digital process rather than the mechanical timings of a shutter or the calibrated screws of an aperture blade. Changing the…

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I’ve been focusing more on street photography this year, and with that, have also been building my collection of photo books for ongoing inspiration. A few weeks ago, I purchased Saul Leiter: A Centennial Retrospective, and it stopped me in my tracks multiple times as I flipped through the pages. Saul was a New York–based […]

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Hi Crew, My girlfriend Ersilia was asking about CHANEL No 19. Went to the cupboard and realized I’d given away or sold off my vintage 50ml EdT so then I hit the resellers. Found one for a very reasonable price and grabbed it. Came with a box and is so pristine I wondered if the […]

Source It almost looks like a still from a forgotten B-movie, but it’s actually an illustration from the first Czech edition of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Zdeněk Burian, 1937. Burian is a favorite but I didn’t know he did this kind of work. I mostly know his paleontologic reconstructions. Cthulhu rises? Source Burian focused on artistic paleontologic reconstructions of ancient animals and beasts, in cooperation with scintists. Mostly ilustrations, scientific or popular. Here…

Robert Birming wrote about a /photo page. And I like that idea. Just a photo, of something. And every now and then, update it.

Four paintings each 7"x5"

The early 1990s brought a new look to Russian streets as the country emerged from decades of Soviet rule and entered an uncertain new era. For young women, fashion became a visible expression of changing times, blending familiar Soviet-era clothing with Western styles that were suddenly becoming more accessible. Denim jackets, leather coats, colorful blouses, […]

Woman with a Parasol – New York, New York In an age of athleisure and other casual clothing, you don’t often see a woman in a white dress complete with a parasol. I spotted her in the Tribeca/SoHo area, and I had to take a picture. The first photo was the easier one, shot with the Leica D-Lux 8, a compact, autofocusing camera with a zoom lens. As I gently followed the woman, I made several exposures, zooming to different focal lengths. I guess I was double zooming, both with my feet and the…

After three long years I finally did some film photography last month. I picked up a film stock I had not previously shot with: Fujifilm 200. The name sounds suspiciously like Fujicolor C200 but this one is different and has none of the under- or over-exposure characterstics that would normally give C200 away. It looks warmer overall, almost like Kodak Gold … almost. If you wanted to save a pound, you could just get this new Fuji 200 stock, overexpose it, and call it a day. Nobody could tell…

Winter Garden Shine – New York, New York I shot this inside the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, where my wife and I watched Mamma Mia! Like most, if not all, Broadway shows, photography is not allowed during the performance. I get it. It can be distracting to the performers, the nearby audience, and even the photographer. If you’re busy taking pictures, you’re not concentrating on the performance. That said, I wish I could take pictures during the performance because, to me, photography is…

https://colorbrewer2.org/ A set of color-blind safe color palettes that I've used as the basis for a bunch of visualizations

https://billmorris.io/shoals/2026/10/18/colorblind-cartographer.html Nice piece by Bill on what it means to him to be a colorblind cartographer I finally, earnestly solicited some opinions from friends and colleagues about what they saw in the same images that I was looking at - in particular in the comparison between the true color image of the airstrip surrounded by blooming canola fields, with the protonopia-simulation version next to it. The words I heard to describe my simulated view of…

Perfume PosseWhat to Wear Hey friends – I had a cold for the last week+ which left me feeling poorly; I still have a bit of residual upper chest drama which is abating, thankfully. So no perfume adventures, instead I’ve been organizing (Winter is… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseWhat to Wear

Great day with Florian at Halde Rheinpreußen and Norddeutschland

While looking at Jasper Johns’s artworks about his grandparents yesterday, an earlier reference unexpectedly fell into place. There’s a group of works titled Montez Singing from 1988-90 whose title and motifs refer to the artist’s childhood memory of the grandmother who took him in as a small child [after his own parents both basically flaked on raising him]. There are two paintings titled Montez Singing, and before one showed up at the Whitney, I’d weirdly already seen it twice in the…

A simple one today can anybody ID the maroon plastic figure? The figure on the left is clearly marked REAMSA 68, from Spain, and, unusually for Reamsa, it is in a rigid polystyrene polymer, rather than the vinyl of early production, or the polyethylene of later mouldings The one on the right, also 'styrene, seems to have dropped the scalping knife, and may be French in origin. Note how

Autumn Leaves flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Write Out recently a workshop by teachers who use a traditional Hawaiian observation practice called Kilo alongside their students. What are your observation super-powers? Or which ones do you tap into most to support your writing? Learn more about Kilo The one I use most is sight, and I often use my camera to help me to focus on details of my surroundings. On Saturday, as we…

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Perfume PosseA Bit More Communing with Uncle Serge Had a vaguely irritating trip into town for ortho appointment last week that included catching an earring in a favourite scarf, which now requires darning. Yet again, my ortho appointment was midday, when the teenage lemmings were … being lemmings… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseA Bit More Communing with Uncle Serge

When I started taking photography seriously, I was taking single photos. At most, I’d go back to the same place over and over again (e.g. Aberdeen beach) but each visit would be separate from the previous ones. It worked for me because I was interested in making pretty pictures, and they don’t need to tell a story. After a while, it started to feel like they were falling short of something. A sandy beach by itself is nothing. Add a wreck, then a man with a dog, and it starts to say something. A…