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Joe’s Book Club Chapter 49: Brotherly Love
I’ve just added a few more to my list, including another motorsports book 100 Years of Legends: The Official Celebration of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Look for review of this books real soon now. Other new books that Mary picked up as part of Mary’s Book-of-the-Month Club…
Film Friday: The Minolta Prod 20 vs FujiFilm X-100F
After looking at any of the images made with the Prod 20, I think you’ll have to admit that the Minolta’s a pretty good little picture maker. And while I will probably never get to actually hold a Fujifilm X-100F in my paws or even any of its successors, such as the red hot X100 VI. But just like Bogey and Bergman, I’ll always have my Minolta Prod 20.
The Pan African Project II with Lou Jones
We are launching another crowdfunding campaign with INDIEGOGO with it we are returning to UGANDA this time and publishing the second volume of panAFRICAproject book which is at the designer stage now.
Wheels Wednesday: Long Lens-ish Car Photography
I just got back from taking Mary’s 2018 Subaru Crosstrek in to Parker Imports for its 48,000 mile oil change. Since I waited for the service I sat outside looking at the cars on their parking lot and sitting there was a worse-for-wear Jaguar XK8, which got me thinking about the XK8 I almost bought (and should have) and about Jaguars in general…
Tuesday Thoughts: Talking about EXIF Today
This photograph of my (former) 1953 Packard Clipper Club Sedan was made in Brighton, Colorado on a railroad siding that was used for a location in the Bill Murray film Larger than Life. Not necessarily a great film but one I liked with a star turn by then then unknown Mathew McConaughe
Monochrome Monday: Photographing the Hunchback of Notre Dame
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’m a fan of the now-unfashionable Pictorialist school of photography, particularly the eccentric work of William Mortensen. You can read a review of the modern reprint of Mortensen’s landmark 1937 book The Command to Look on my former blog. It’s another one of my favorite photography books.