Film Advance

Winter vineyard, Naramata, BC.
(Camera: Horizon Kompakt; Film: Kodak T-Max 100)

I spend a lot of time on-line (probably far too much) reading about photography, searching for a few pearls of wisdom in what often seems like a vast, largely barren sea of opinion. But every once in a while I encounter a great bit of insight that makes the effort worthwhile. And it’s easy to identify good advice when you see it — it’s always so true and so obvious that you wonder why it hadn’t occurred to you before. I had that reaction recently while watching the latest installment in DigitalRev TV’s entertaining “Cheap Camera Challenge.” Continue reading →

Sydney Opera House detail.
(Camera: Yashica-Mat TLR; Film: KodaK Ektar 100)

A good friend of mine is really into taking pictures with his iPhone. Like many people, he uses it for casual snaps, but he also tackles more ambitious photographic projects with it, including elaborate stitched panoramas and mosaics. I, on the other hand, do most all my picture taking with old film cameras. On the surface, you might not imagine we have much in common photographically, and yet, we’re really two sides of the same coin. Both of us have learned to exploit the power of limitations. Continue reading →