Taken years ago. Just messing around having fun ..read more

< no pictures > My wife and I moved down here about 12 years ago. Before we left NY, I got some photo chemicals. They stayed packed away until this past week when the smell of the stop bath became overwhelming. (L-O-N-G story.) I finally pulled out the chems, changing bag, tank, and defroze my exposed B+W film. Tested the fixer with a piece of film. It took 10 minutes to clear the film. Mixed up the solutions, developed the film, and, "Too-rah! Too-ray! O frabjous day!" It works! ... Read more ..read more

I have had a Canon EOS Rebel T6 for several years, and have generally focused on nature and landscapes. I have avoided portraits since it involves human interaction, but lately I have become more daring in asking strangers for permission to photograph them - never been turned down (yet). These photos are from trips to the Middle East. In order, they represent: a shoeshine guy on the streets of Cairo; a Nubian felucca captain on the Nile at Aswan; a Coptic priest in Cairo; a souvenir... Read more ..read more

After the coffee, before the exercise. Trying to use my tablet to take photo of current acrylic piece ..read more

I wasn't sure where to post this, but since it's by and large a photo, this wins the turkey. This started out as a printout of an infrared shot of Kodachrome Basin, with Kodak HIE film. I printed it out on plain white copy paper and first made a gelatin "skin" like the one I described here, but this time, after I coated the image with a couple of layers of gel medium, I painted it. I just bought a set of Golden Open acrylics, they are touted as being slow drying, and I thought... Read more ..read more

Not that it's super important, but I've wanted to be able to use my original Marshall's Photo Oils again for hand painting B&W images, for many years. These photo oils were designed and intended for use on silver gelatin prints from a darkroom. I have darkroom equipment that I've been unable to set up in my last 2 homes due to space restrictions. Typical inkjet prints, even from a photo printer using pigmented inks, don't accept these oils as the paper usually grabs the medium and... Read more ..read more

Back in the day, disgraced former newsman Bill O'Reilly imagined a war on Christmas. As a street photographer at the time, I became a foot soldier in that war for two years. 1st year: bongolia street photography by bongo thebongolian.jalbum.net 2nd year bongolia street photography by bongo thebongolian.jalbum.net comments welcomed ..read more

This nut had the potential to produce many offspring, who, in turn, could have been the catalyst for a whole new ecosystem, thereby creating a rich habitat that would have sustained countless lives, but I ate it ..read more

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I got a pleasant surprise when I happened to look at the underside of the mould for the right leg of my bird feeder sculpture. The pieces of foam board that make up the mould form a completely unplanned (but not random) design that reminded me of some of Ben Nicholson’s work. Here are some zoomed in areas. The edges have an interesting texture ..read more