My First Camera
Writing these thoughts about how I am teaching my kids photography causes me to pause and ask myself–How did I learn photography? I don’t know if that is a story worth telling but I do want to mention the very…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Darin Boville
How to Teach Kids Photography, Part Two
In the first installment of this series, I shared a few thoughts on how to teach kids photography–ideas that I tried out with some success with my own daughters. To organize my thoughts in order to share them with you…
The Passage
My video, The Passage, although created for personal reasons, can be seen as a metaphor for any or all of the transitions we are experiencing now, whether that transition is political or emotional, on a large social scale or on…
The Scam Caller’s Art
Scam callers have upped their game. There’s a person I know who works for an IT company we shall not name. He works in security. Once upon a time we were talking about junk mail and his theory was that…
Zuckerberg Dreams
Say you were dumb, I mean really dumb, computer dumb, literally dumb as a rock, albeit one with some lines scratched into it. And say I showed you ten pictures of dogs–and I told you they were all dogs–and ten…
Book Review: Welcome to the Jungle–Maya Ruins Revisited, by William Frej
Rephotography—projects that seek out the tripod holes of past photographers to reshoot the same images of the same thing, in the same place, maybe at the same time—have their fascinations but, in the end, impart lessons on the same general…
How to Teach Kids Photography, Part One
Originally published on some long-ago blog of mine on November 9, 2011, updated slightly here. There’s a sort of mythology growing in some quarters that once-upon-a-time cameras required knowledge of the craft of photography to use. That you had to…
Albrecht Dürer was a Photographer
(This is part of series looking back at posts I wrote a decade ago. First published on November 4, 2011.) If Albrecht Dürer were alive today he would be a photographer. I’m sure of it. I’ve been a fan of…
Is the iPhone 12 Super-Wide Camera Any Good?
My iPhone doesn’t have a camera. Like all iPhone 12s (the iPhone 12 Pro Max, to say its full name, just this once), it has three cameras. Each of its three lenses has its own sensor chip behind it and…
I Feel Like Going Home
It’s a beautiful valley in an unexpected place, south of Elko, Nevada, deep in the desert, and with the mist hanging in the air it looks like some primordial morning, suggestive of a time before Man. But it’s not a…