by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
Earlier in 2016, months before the election, I was buying typewriters. Lots of typewriters. I had an idea, only partially formed, of using typewriters in a project and estimated then that I needed five or six different models to make…
(Note: This article is part of a series.) January 21, 1940Notes of Camera World In a roundup, the book Graphic and Graflex Photography is highlighted with a list of chapters: “…Ansel Adams gives advice on print-making… June 9, 1940Diverse Attractions…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) Bokeh is a word for the background (or foreground, I suppose) blur characteristics of an image. It differs from lens to lens (sometimes by a…
(As we approach the election I thought it might be interesting to share a project I undertook during the transition after the 2016 presidential election. A slideshow of the images from Transitional Delights (2016-2017) follows the text, which is excerpted…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) “First light” is a phrase from the astronomy community, usually referring to the first road-test image taken with a newly-built telescope, but it is also…
(Note: This article is part of a series.) August 17, 1930Santa Fe Has Its Own Architecture. Inspired by Indians and Spanish, It Is Now of Frankly Modern Type. By Mildred Adams. “Santa Fe has developed a style of architecture all…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) The new Fuji 50mm f lens is here—what is it like? With any super-fast lens your expectations are that it will be huge, with a…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) If you were designing a lens what would you do? Ahead of you is a line of trees, planted in a straight row. They form…
Somehow, since my last post on my many unopened photography books, more have arrived. I posted about three hoping to shrink the stacks—seven new ones have appeared, add to the two piles upon my desk. I’m going in the wrong…
I’ve undertaken a series of projects in the last four years centered on the Trump presidency, starting with the early debates in 2016 (or was it 2015?). Nothing is especially photoshopped here–the weird spiraling colors are from interference patterns, layers…