My Photo Life

The start of Chapter 3 in "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation" mentions something that I've pondered a lot. And it shares 3...

This is just a bit of an interesting history of Technicolor, along with 3 "lies" (or just filmmaking tricks) with regards to the T...

There are many instances of pinhole cameras being formed in darkened rooms to project the outside on a far wall. (Abelardo Morell has done ...

I've been checking out photo-related books from my local library over the last 14 months. I recently learned about Albert Kahn and his ...

Here's a short video sharing different shutter speed sounds over the years: Direct link: youtu.be/dukzCYaUTV8 The 3rd one took me back: ...

Here's an excerpt from a press release from the University of Hertfordshire from last week: A photograph thought to be the longest expo...

Check out this Fairchild K-17 aerial camera from the 1940s: It's a "hand-held" camera, but it weighs 75 lbs! It shot 9x9 inch ...

Here's an interesting 2 paragraphs from Capturing the Light as the authors wrote about Talbot and The Pencil of Nature: In developing t...

I checked out a few photo-related books earlier this year : 2 from my local public library in January, and 1 through inter-library loan at H...

Here's another quote that I enjoyed from L. J. M. Daguerre: The Worlds First Photographer and Inventor of the Daguerreotype : Click to e...

Here's a proposal in The Sacramento Bee from June 7, 1897:

In some of my recent reading about the history of photography, I came across the mention of something that happened over 100 years before th...

I loved the opening to the Introduction of L. J. M. Daguerre: The Worlds First Photographer and Inventor of the Daguerreotype : Click to enl...

When my boys were on their Christmas break from school, we stopped by our local library. I perused the art/photography section for a bit as ...

CVA Legacy had a great slideshow of images from throughout the history of the College of Visual Arts that they had looping at the CVA Reuni...