Do we start counting with the very first photograph that we made? When I was eight years old my parents gave me my first camera, a hand-me-down Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I remember the first photograph I made with it.

The introduction of new cameras also generates questions from readers asking my advice about switching systems because many people always seem to want to own “the best” camera even if that’s a constantly moving target.

I have been making infrared images since the film days, and still have a roll of Kodak High Speed Infrared (black & White) film in my refrigerator. Making portraits in infrared was the farthest thing from my mind

My friend Jason Anderson wrote a wonderful post called Five Ways to Improve Your Car Photographs for my car photography and you should give it a read when you get a chance.

There is more to black and white photography than simply an absence of color. Maybe I wouldn’t feel this way if the first photographs had been made in color but that didn’t happen…