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I just had the opposite occur. I was out yesterday photographing with my 4x5 Chamonix in an industrial area near a fright train yard, and a 20ish man was paying attention to what I was doing, but...

https://tomasvh.com/2022/04/15/notre-dame-wet-plate-collodion-portraits-celebrate-restoration-with-vintage-photography/

There"s a short video near the end of the article


More of his Notre...

Thanks Roger!

Thanks Jody!

Thanks so much!

From an ongoing project titled On The Edge an exploration of the periphery of O'Hare Airport in Chicago

I had no idea polarizing filters were invented in 1928 by Edwin Land who, of course, started Polaroid. They are much older than I assumed.
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Praus Productions

https://www.4photolab.com/

I've built several sinks and always used about 1/4 inch per foot slope with the drain in the lowest corner. They worked fine.

I'm with Peter. While I understand the impulse to make so called "Pure" photographs, but I don't subscribe to the myth of the pure landscape and personally feel this is a genre that has been done to...

Jimmy Schipper Bjaaland was the former Service and Production Manager at Hasselblad. He obtained all the parts that Hasselblad had when they discontinued support for the Imacon scanners. We'll be ok...

You might try contacting B23 in Copenhagen. He knows everything about these scanners and can supply parts and do repairs. I bought a new motherboard for my Precision III and he was most helpful.
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Easter is coming...

Peter you and your hawk seem to have had similar plumage!

Have you read Helen Macdonald's 'H Is for Hawk'? I highly recommend it. It's about much more than raptors—life, death and other easy...

Randy,
You might want to see more of Jeff's work—

https://www.jeffreywolin.com

He's been addressing significant social issues for a long time

A friend of mine is featured on Lens/cratch today with work from his recent project on homelessness


https://lenscratch.com/2022/03/jeffrey-a-wolin-faces-of-homelessness/

Indeed! I was cleaning out a cabinet in my parents apartment shortly after they had died and found about a dozen loose negative that my father had taken of my mother before they were married. They...

You could be correct. If they were mine, I would would go the archival storage route as it would be the best possible solution. It can't hurt and maybe it would help even a little. It might also be...

You can buy archival shoe boxes—

https://www.archivalmethods.com/product/short-top-boxes

I would get rid of the envelopes the prints are currently stored in as they, I'm sure, are made of...

I’ve been thrown out of parking garages while using hand-held cameras so I don’t think tripods will be automatically welcome. I would talk to whoever is in charge of the space you want to photograph...

Pulaski at Belden—Chicago, IL

I had this problem and traced it to a lack of humidity when drying prints in the winter. Running a humidifier so the prints dried more slowly cured the wrinkled edges. About 1 minute at 200 Degrees...

Randy, I bet you're never bored in there!

From yesterday's walk

Interesting concept slerman, I hope to see more.

Abelardo Morell has done some intriguing work with a camera obscura


https://www.abelardomorell.net/camera-obscura

I do remember these things and more—I'm old too!

The Viking ship is now in Geneva, Illinois and is being conserved and is open to the public.

https://vikingship.us/

Highland Park, Illinois—Ready for anything

Chicago—the obligatory Bean photo

Manfrotto 410

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/124665-REG/Manfrotto_410_410_Junior_Geared_Head.html

Don’t worry, Superman will take good care of you. What could go wrong?

Gary, there are a lot of quite striking post office buildings. I think issues with law enforcement must vary depending on where you are. Here in Chicago I would make the photo and not give it a...

Very nice Miguel! Thank you

Chicago, Illinois
Alpha Movie Theater, 1912

Chicago 02/15/2022

I stumbled onto this yesterday and thought it might be interesting to many here.

Andrea Modica is an 8x10 platinum printer

https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/lab/masterclass-with-andrea-modica/

Got it Sal, thanks

What is the point of all this? I'm right, you're wrong? How is a discussion of obsolete materials useful?

I met Andreas Feininger in about 1974 and he never talked about technique, he had much...

Thank you so much Michael

So sad to hear this. My condolences and best wishes to Will's family and friends.