Tuesday Thoughts: Try Keeping Resolutions Next Year

Tuesday Thoughts: Try Keeping Resolutions Next Year

The below photograph of Mary and I was a self portrait we made in the early 1980’s. It was scanned by ScanMyPhotos who offers a wonderfully seamless process for digitizing images that have been laying dormant for many years and helps bring them back to life....
Monochrome Monday: How I Made “Barn In Snow”

Monochrome Monday: How I Made “Barn In Snow”

In my Tuesday Thoughts post last month, “How I Made Walkabout,” I wrote about taking a daily three-mile walk when I lived in my former home and how I would walk past a farm and make photographs of it. Here’s a similar but snowy image made in the same...
Outdoor Glamour Portraits: Color vs. Black & White

Outdoor Glamour Portraits: Color vs. Black & White

Oscar Wilde visited North America in 1882 for a lecture tour. Shortly after arriving in New York he had a series of portraits made that you can see on Oscar Wilde in America. I once stayed in the Cadogan Hotel in London down the hall from room 118 where he famously...
Joe’s Movie Club: Best Movies I Watched in 2024

Joe’s Movie Club: Best Movies I Watched in 2024

Disclaimer: The movies that I’m talking about in today’s “best of” post are not films on physical media that were released during 2024. Some were but most weren’t. Instead you’ll find a few films that I enjoyed most this year. The takeaway from this disclaimer...
Make Every Exposure Count

Make Every Exposure Count

Today’s Post by Joe Farace The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. —Walt Whitman Light is one of the key elements that differentiate a good photograph from a snapshot. That’s why I’m always surprised...
For Boxing Day: Why Not a Box of Film!

For Boxing Day: Why Not a Box of Film!

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “May the glow of the Christmas tree and the company of loved ones warm your heart this Boxing Day” ~ Anonymous Boxing Day is traditionally the day after Christmas and the tradition originated from rich families giving gifts...