by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
When I received my converted Fuji XT3 back at Christmas, transformed into an infrared camera, the first thing I did was to walk around the neighborhood with it looking at the world in this new light. What first strikes you,…
When I make images there is usually a long lag before I share the picture. My recent Hotel Rooms, for example were photographed in September and October of last year, photoshopped in November (essentially correcting the geometry of the images),…
On my extensive Fall trip I purchased a used book or two—well, ok, I purchased so many I was forced to ship boxes of them home to make room in the FJ Cruiser for me and my camera gear. Here…
Hotel rooms, at night in the dark, are alive with light. I made these images on the 10,000 mile cross-country tip I undertook this past fall. Each night, no matter how late I arrived at a hotel, no matter how…
Photography books worth noting So Incredibly Idaho!: Seven Landscapes that Define the Gem State By Carlos Arnaldo SchwantesPublished in 1996 by the University of Idaho Press I may have purchased this book in Idaho, a state normally forgotten aside of…
I’m back. It’s been a while. In November I arrived home in Montara, California after a ten-thousand-mile cross-country road trip which took me to twenty-four states spread over six and a half weeks. I drove through California into Nevada, then…
The reviews of Mike Mandel’s new book, Zone Eleven, can make you want to write your own review. The photos in the book are made by Ansel Adams but sequenced by Mike Mandel long after Ansel’s passing. The sequencing provides…
Each Christmas I send members of my family a photograph. This year I made a set of six small images and wrote a text to accompany the photographs. When we moved to California in 2004, Lori and I looked all…
Most of my projects are made up of multiple images. This project contains just this one. Entitled, Chamberlin Rock, it is named after the geologist and once-upon-a-time president of the University of Wisconsin…but the photograph has nothing to do with…
In deference to certain workplace environments, I’ve edited the quote (just below) to obscure an offensive word. Click on the link in the quote to see the word. The big boulder on Observatory hill, which is the largest of its…