12 F*cking Rules For Success

I just came across this. WARNING: language. But truthful language.

Photography T-Shirts

Here are 5 fun photography t-shirts from I Still Shoot Film:

I suppose if the last one exists, then this one needs to as well.

Camping iPhone Photos

Last weekend, I went camping in central Wisconsin for 3 days with my family. Here are 5 photos from our trip:

Rest stop bathroom.


Viewing area.


Campground bathroom.


Campground game room.


Post-camping dry-out.

Popeye on Photography

My 6-year-old just discovered Popeye. And we recently saw this one together, where Olive Oyl wants to be in fashion magazines, so it revolves around photography. Here, take a break and watch this. (It's 5:45 long - the rest at the end is advertisements.)

Direct link: youtu.be/BoUnCvZlDRA

Jay Cooke with a Holga

Three weeks ago, I went camping with my 2 boys up by Duluth. (I posted a lot of photos of our adventures on my other blog if you want to take a look.)

Last month, one of my classes at Hamline University did a Holga-based project. (A Holga is a cheap, plastic medium format film camera that needs to be taped shut to prevent light leaks. Every image is vignetted, and may not be that sharp.) Here's an Instagram of mine from that day in class:

Caption: "'Holga day' in my Photo II class today. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
#wellitskindadead #photography #kodak #fujifilm"

That project inspired me to get out my Holga for the first time in a few years. I brought it with to Duluth.

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Our camper cabin for 2 nights.


View of the St. Louis River from the Swinging Bridge.


After a hike down from Oldenburg’s Point.


My 5-year-old on a little cliff.


Lake Superior.


Pines and birches behind our cabin.


Pine forest.


On the Swinging Bridge.


A large rock (that my sons got wet) and the Swinging Bridge.


Near Thomson Dam.

Holga Project

My small Advanced Photo class at Hamline University (seen in this post) recently finished up a medium format Holga film project. Overall, they really didn't care for it. I don't think they liked all the steps involved in shooting film. They'd rather snap the shutter and check the LCD screen to at least have some sense of if the image turned out or not. Film made them too nervous. (And the whole process made me feel like a dinosaur.)

We did a simple diptych project with the Holgas. Here are a few pairings of their final photos, along with 2 other individual Holga images that just turned out well:

T. Schnell


L. Thao


E. Augsburger


C. Felton


J. Dammare

Photographs Sent Into Interstellar Space

The Voyager spacecraft (launched in 1977) left our solar system 5 years ago and became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. A committee led by Carl Sagan (American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, etc) agreed upon 116 photos that should be on board. Sagan had this to say about the images:

[...] a collection of 116 pictures (one of which is for calibration) detailing but not limited to human life on earth and the planet itself. Many pictures are annotated with one or many indications of scales of time, size or mass. Some images also contain indications of chemical composition. All measures used on the pictures are first defined in the first few images using physical references.

Here's a gallery of all of the images from Imgur:

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Learn more about each image on Wikipedia.

Tiny Clam Shells

This weekend, my boys and I went to Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River for a few hours one night. They played with rocks as I played with some tiny shells:

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For a sense of scale, here they are in my hand before I started sorting them: