THE WRITTEN RECORD

Tag: Photography

Digital > Analog

I am on a hiatus with analog film photography for now. The price of film, developing, scanning is getting out of control and is not sustainable for me right now. I love the results but damn. Going all-digital for a…

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Back To Flickr

I was a charter member of the photo hosting site, Flickr since it’s inception back in 2005. Since then it has been a shit-show roller coaster and grew stagnant. It’s been sold more than a few times and then again…

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Adventure Lab- Tulsa Street Art

From the creators of Geocaching.com comes a fairly new way to use GPS coordinates to find different locations and learn about them. I just published an Adventure that highlights some street murals in Tulsa. AL is a free download and…

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August 2022 Geocache Finds (so far)

What a month!

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Public Phone

As opposed to griping about people on their phones, it may be best to make use of my own iPhone and discover some of those benefits. Some use cases that works for me: Blog and write with the phone I…

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Not Really Living

I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.

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Photo Workflow

My current creative workflow is simple, on purpose. I’d rather be out there shooting than processing or organizing. I don’t have the time or desire to go out for that one shot that will make me famous. I want to…

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Map Quest Pt 3

Over 260 images cataloged on a map with GPS coordinates and waypoints. According to my Lightroom software, I only have a little more than 200 to add. Then I’ll start a new map for geocaches I’ve logged followed by another…

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Lomo Turquoise Emulation

Last year, Lomography teased the photo film community with images hinting that they were bringing back the Turquoise film. Development has been ongoing and is scheduled to release fall of this year, 2022. Pre-orders sold out and more have been…

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Why Ask Why

“Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” Picasso, when asked what his paintings meant. Sometimes we create for the sake of creating and seeing what happens. There are times where…

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Map Quest Revisited

After amassing about a thousand images of neon, murals and geocaches it is past time that I curate them into a searchable database. This is one of those “shoulda done it sooner” moments but who knew my latest photographic passion…

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Digital Contact Sheet

One of my favorite tools on the iPad is importing my images to the Photos app. The simple act of sorting, organizing these photos like I used to do on a contact sheet of film negatives. Find the keepers and…

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Let’s Take This Outside

Due to a variety of interests, there has been less writing here in favor of being outdoors with a camera. I’ve been out and about capturing a variety of topics including urban art, neon signs and more. I’m thinking of…

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Map Quest

Over the past couple of decades I have acquired a lot of images and have failed to document them properly. Now I want to take on the enormous task of mapping my finds. There are three categories I want to…

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How To Become The Great Urban Photographer

If you loosely apply Lomography’s ten golden rules, you’ll do just fine. Number 10 may be the most important. Don’t listen to others, stay true to yourself and your artistic endeavor. There are plenty of rules that can and should…

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