Text by Kenneth Taylor, Copyright 2021 Film is Definitely Back . Some say the return to film is a reaction to a world where everything has become digital, fast and easy. It is certainly true that shooting film requires you to slow down and this makes it a very enjoyable experience. Perhaps the reason… Continue reading Kenneth Taylor: Film is Definitely Back
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Bob Shell: The Incredible Shrinking Business
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2021 The Incredible Shrinking Business . I didn’t come up with that title. An old friend, veteran of the photography magazine business, used that phrase and it stuck in my mind. When I first got serious about photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were many quality… Continue reading Bob Shell: The Incredible Shrinking Business
Bob Shell: The 60’s
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 The 60’s . In the summer of 1966 I moved to Washington, DC, to take a job I’d been offered at the Smithsonian Institution as a biological illustrator. I’d been making detailed paintings and pen and ink drawings of insects, birds, and animals since grade school. I was… Continue reading Bob Shell: The 60’s
Bob Shell: Learning to See and Equipment Meditations
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 Learning to See and Equipment Meditations . Many people, when they get into photography, become “equipment freaks,”. buying lens after lens in a quest for better photographs. I know, I was one myself. Those people keep the camera companies in business. I didn’t understand that… Continue reading Bob Shell: Learning to See and Equipment Meditations
A.H. Scott: Flags of Our (Mythical)Fathers
Text by A.H. Scott, Copyright 2020 Flags of Our (Mythical) Fathers . Observing the daily dumpster of disaster which is the Trump presidency, a constant refrain which swirls in my brain is this: WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?!! ‘God is gonna shake His mighty head He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been Or tear… Continue reading A.H. Scott: Flags of Our (Mythical)Fathers