Today's Textual Fancy

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."

-Lewis Hine

'Watch out for labels. They’re reassuring, but somebody’s going to stick one on you that you’ll never get rid of..." -Robert Capa

ਤੁਸੀਂ ਇਸਨੂੰ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਕਹੋਗੇ?

"Of what has been, and will never be..."

I shot a couple digital photos of what was up for the 4x5 shoot. Then, shoot (heh). I ruined the negatives. So this post is in memory of the 5 fallen negatives of 4/8/10. I miss you.

3 of 4

Platinum-Palladium

Cyanotype

Argyrotype

Today's Textual Fancy

"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's funny how an entire afternoon's work can be erased with a 1/2 second flash of light...sigh... Today was not the yummy cup of photographic tea I had hoped. Platinum printing tomorrow...if I make mistakes, it's going to be expensive!

Some of you...

Black, white, and water

A few of my favorite black and whites...

Today's Textual Fancy

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
-Peter Lindbergh

Shadow Life

Today's Textual Fancy

“Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
-Dorthea Lange

Yosemite-ish Regions

I wanted to share my favorite fly photo with you...

Cyanotypes and Argyrotypes