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A reader once e-mailed me asking “Why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?” I wrote a post responding to that question and you can see some of my answer to her question here. But today I would like to explore and maybe explode some common myths about digital infrared photography:

I know a local entrepreneur who keeps an elaborate chess set in his office to inspire his employees—especially his sales people. The point he’s trying to make is that success involves developing strategies for accomplishing goals, but you don’t have to re-invent the wheel to develop new ones. Some are already lying in wait on the chessboard’s black and white squares.

Ever since I returned to film photography in November 2021, people began asking me: Why are you shooting film? And why now?

Over time I have been increasing the amount of coverage of film photography, not just on my Film Friday posts on my photography how-to Blog but also on my fledgling YouTube channel, which also includes a few Cars & Coffee videos. Please check them out, especially the one about Datsun automobiles, when you have time.

Is this a great picture? Not so much technically and eight-megapixels seems puny in this day and age of 61-megapixel Sony A7R IV’s but it’s a memento of a time and place when I spent a fun night with my wife at a trade show that’s a just a far away memory.

In 2022, minivans accounted for just 3.6% of new vehicle sales in the US, down from 6.6% in 2016.