Saturdays Online: Can't Stop Shooting Film

Often when I participate in Photography Workshops, someone has to ask why I shoot film.  I get tired of the question, mostly because what anyone of us does or doesn't do is an "Artistic Choice" and we should not be asked to justify what pleases us aesthetically.

So I'm not on a rant, but here is my short list:

• I like working in the dark room (its not a photograph until you print it!).
• I like film cameras, and am a collector (if you've got it, use it).
• Because of the survivability of real Print Images, I was able to make a wonderful photo book for my Mother's 90th Birthday.  This only applies to real photographic paper, not your ink jet image.  Also B&W survives better than color.
• I work on spectacular digital imagery as a satellite image analyst.  I do not care to spend my free time (aside from blogging) tied to Photoshop and my computer.  Nothing can compare to the 'photography' I work with professionally from "my employer's digital camera" 500 +km in Earth orbit.
• Also Read about our Blogger Friend Aubrey's recent experience with digital rot.

Please view this video from Amrit Vatsa.  It answers all the questions you've ever had regarding why some of us love film.  It's not a bother its a pleasure.  He makes an elegant comparison to painting.  Did we stop painting just because it's an old analog format?  Or is there actual pleasure in creating something with your hands that you will eventually be able to hold in your hands?  And how old are those paintings in the Egyptian Tombs?


And search through that old box of photographs and negatives that you found in your grand parent's attic.  Who knows what you might find?

Even this un-restored photo of myself, Mom, brother Kevin and our Dog Tessie brings back such vivid memories of the summer of 1965:

 

It's just soooo 1960's.

Happy 90th Birthday Mom!

Finally here and the Party is ready to go on the weekend.......

What I've Been Doing Instead of Blogging, Finally Done!

Click here to view this photo book larger

Shutterfly allows you to customize your photo book just the way you want.

Now I can work on My New Year's Resolutions and Introduce you to our newest camera family additions..........

Happy 87th Birthday Mom!

Mom's graduation from grade school.  In those day grade school ended at 8th grade, then directly to high school as a freshman........

They made their own graduation dresses as a part of sewing class.......

Continuing with the family project means turning this into a cyanotype or van dyke.....

Happy 86th Birthday Mom!

Today is my Mother's 86th Birthday.

I call this 'Betty Grable Mom', because of the 1940's upswept hairstyle made famous by Actress Betty Grable (the most Famous American WWII pin-up girl).


Van Dyke Contact Print on Canvas.
Original is 8X10
From My Family Project