New Year 2022 – Protest Against the Unreal, The Fake, The Non-Tangible
New Year 2022 - Protest Against the Unreal, The Fake, The Non-Tangible Nothing is REAL anymore. We are starting a revolution, an affirmation to choose things that are real. We are tired of being a data point to be marketed to. People getting rich off our information. We are done with being tracked everywhere we... Continue Reading →
My partner MaryLee went to Cincinnati for her niece's wedding and took along a small Olympus XA2 35mm film camera loaded with a single roll of Ilford HP5+ Black and White Film. Good setup if you have decent light--the camera sports a 35mm f3.5 lens. She photographed some of the behind-the-scenes that she had access... Continue Reading →
Here's what I did. I created a simple lock screen image and home screen image for my phone out of my ASMP media credentials. Now, whenever I hit the wake-up button on my phone, before I unlock it, I see the first image (below) on my Lock screen, which I can show to security personnel... Continue Reading →
Besides misinformation filling our airwaves, there are fake things filling our world nowadays. I was walking through a Costco today and I saw a box with ten "candles" for sale for $24.99 only they weren't really candles, they were battery-operated flameless candles supposed to look like real candles. They come complete with a wireless remote... Continue Reading →
They're Beanie Babies, not Picassos. It feels like NFTs are this generations' way of saying, "I don't care about anything real. No stuff. I don't want any family heirlooms or any 'things', I just want my computer so I can become an influencer and not have to work and I'll get rich and have a... Continue Reading →
Remember those tall glass structures that you could climb into to make a phone call, a space all to yourself that shut you off from the world, offered you a bit of silence from the street traffic around you? They were as ubiquitous as the cell phone in your pocket. They were everywhere, and ready... Continue Reading →
Like vinyl records versus digital CDs. Tube versus solid-state guitar amplifiers. Home-cooked meals versus microwaved. Hand-written (or typed) greeting cards versus emails. Film versus digital photography. Traditional photographic prints versus NFTs. I'm in the tangible art business!~Kenneth Wajda I make film portraits using 20th-century techniques and cameras and print in a traditional darkroom. For those... Continue Reading →
We are really living in it, a new golden age of analog photography. Sometimes we can't see something while we're in it. You can either be in the mountains, or off the mountains looking at them--they're impossible to see while you're in them. But there couldn't be a better time to be an analog photographer.... Continue Reading →
There’s a growing interest in film photography among young people (to whom it’s brand new!) I love teaching about photography and getting these old film cameras that documented so many of our lives, keeping them alive and working for a new generation of photographers, making prints, creating art. I work one-on-one with students in Boulder... Continue Reading →
Alfred Stieglitz, photographic pioneer I'm reading a biography of the legendary photographer, Alfred Stieglitz by Dorothy Norman. I'm finding it a fascinating read, how he challenged rules. When he was young and played sports, he often wanted to change the rules of the game. In his photography and his life, he wanted to not "hit... Continue Reading →
It's a quite different world nowadays the way we use photography from when I was growing up. When I was a kid, there were regular visits to the portrait studio or a school photographer would setup in our auditorium to make our class photos. There was something to it--the lights, the camera, the tripod, the... Continue Reading →
Gimme Something Real 