March 11th is #NationalWorshipOfToolsDay. This is a day to go out into the garage, the tool shed, the storage closet, or wherever it is you keep your tools—or cameras! You can clean them, reorganize them, make something new with them or maybe go to the store and buy a new one

In the past year or so, I’ve been writing about and posting images made with the Panasonic Lumix GX-1 that I had converted with Life Pixel’s Hyper Color filter showing images I made at PhotoWalks with my friend Barry Staver at Hudson Gardens. But that’s not how I started with the filter.

My Sunday series on outdoor portraiture continues today with a portrait of Mina, a model I photographed twice during a series of group model shoots in Phoenix. Arizona. Today’s featured Image is from that first shoot.

Last year my wife introduced me to William Kent Krueger and gave me a signed copy of of his book Spirit Crossing and since then I’ve been avidly devouring his early novels that I’m getting from the Library. The same is true for Walter Mosley. She gave me a copy of his book Every Man a King and I loved it and am reading his latest book, which brings me to…

Although often confused with posterization, the darkroom technique of solarization is also sometimes called the Sabatier Effect although purists might disagree with that description. In 1857 William L. Jackson noted that exposing a partially developed photographic plate to light, then continuing its development, would sometimes cause a reversal of tones, affecting the whole or part of the negative. It might have been christened the Blanchere Effect because it was not described by Sabatier until 1860.