Push Processed

House on the Perimeter of Dogtown

2012-02-23T15:53:00.001-05:00

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
Holga 120N

Willow (The aluminum roof flashing version)

2012-02-18T11:53:00.001-05:00

An image I posted some weeks ago on the blog, this time as an alcohol/gel inkjet transfer onto aluminum roof flashing. I purposely used too much of the alcohol/gel mixture to get all those imperfections and textures in the image. The swirly edges were created by working my finger around the edges of the image during the transfer process.

The Green Space Series

2012-02-13T17:02:00.001-05:00

Recently, I started shooting color images with my Holga for a series of images called "Green Space" About a half dozen rolls of film into this series, I realized that this series would be better served shot with a (quotation fingers) "real camera".
So I have shelved this series for a bit until I figure out what I want to do. In the meanwhile, I will most likely post some of the Holga shots here or on flickr.
This image was taken in Malden, MA with a Holga 120N.

In the Moraine #1

2012-02-11T16:33:00.000-05:00

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
Holga 120N

Land of the Midnight Sun

2012-02-07T18:41:00.000-05:00

A Holga double exposure of a dusting of snow on my lawn and trees at the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Serpentine

2012-02-04T16:13:00.000-05:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Duck

2012-02-01T17:22:00.000-05:00

Topsfield, MA
Holga 120N

Soar

2012-01-28T16:30:00.000-05:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Pool of Light

2012-01-25T17:49:00.000-05:00

Somewhere in the Middlesex Fells Reservation this past autumn
Holga 120N

Fallen Birches

2012-01-19T15:48:00.000-05:00

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
Holga 120N

RayKo Plastic Camera Show Opening Tonight

2012-01-18T10:59:00.000-05:00

If you are in the San Francisco area tonight, check out the opening of the 5th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show at the RayKo Photo Center at 428 Third St. The opening is from 6-8 pm. If you can't make it tonight, the show runs through March 6.
As blogged previously, two of my images are in the show.

Swamp

2012-01-17T16:37:00.000-05:00

Middlesex Fells Reservation
Stoneham, MA
Diana camera

Dogtown Trees

2012-01-12T16:36:00.000-05:00

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
Holga 120N

RayKo Plastic Camera Show

2012-01-03T17:02:00.001-05:00

My images, "Birdwatchers" and "The Last Stand", have been accepted into this year's 5th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show at the RayKo Photo Center gallery in San Francisco, CA. The show will be on exhibit from January 18 to March 6.
The opening reception for the show will be on Wednesday, January 18 from 6 to 8 p.m.
I was lucky enough to attend the RayKo Plastic Camera Show opening last year and it is well worth attending if you are in the area.

Geography of Old Wars

2011-12-30T16:35:00.000-05:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Willow Don't Weep For Me

2011-12-26T16:34:00.000-05:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Starry Sky #2

2011-12-20T15:44:00.000-05:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Valley

2011-12-13T16:03:00.002-05:00

Recently, I have been printing a series of images on Unryu paper. Unryu paper comes in many variations but in this case it has long strands of kozo fiber against a thin and translucent mulberry paper backing. In Japan, the name "unryu" means "cloud dragon paper". I apply a thin coat of inkaid matte precoat to each sheet, hang them to dry, and then print the image on my inkjet printer.

This image was taken with an Agfa Isoly camera with a Holga lens.

Occupy #1

2011-12-10T19:39:00.001-05:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Terminal Moraine

2011-12-05T16:21:00.000-05:00

Still working all these rock images out of my head. Back to regularly scheduled programming soon.
Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
Holga 120N

Kindness

2011-11-30T15:18:00.001-05:00

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
Holga 120N
More of these are posted on my flickr stream.

Truth

2011-11-28T15:51:00.002-05:00

Another image taken with the new Holga 120 Panoramic camera. This was taken in Dogtown, Gloucester, MA. A couple of early observations on this camera. Earlier test images I saw posted online didn't seem to have much in the way of that Holga edge focus fall off. But there appears to be significant loss of focus on both left and right hand sides of the initial roll I shot. Which is a pleasant surprise for me, anyway. Why would anyone want a Holga with crisp edges? There does not, however, appear to be any vignetting whatsoever on these images. If you like those dark corners, perhaps this isn't the camera for you. I thought the vignetting on the 6x17 Holga pinhole was too excessive for my tastes anyway (to the point where I sold it after shooting one roll). This camera is only a 6x12 format and I shot these images with the factory mask in place. Perhaps removing the mask would change the look of the corners and edges somewhat. The 90mm "optical" lens that comes with the camera seems to cover the frame quite well.
More to come.
BTW, click on the image in order to see it larger.

Courage

2011-11-27T15:03:00.003-05:00

This image was shot with the new Holga 120 panoramic camera. Perhaps a bit more on that camera later.
Taken in Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Probably best to click on the image to view it larger.

Balancing Act

2011-11-23T15:42:00.000-05:00

Holga 120N

Worlds Collide

2011-11-21T16:00:00.003-05:00

This is printed on a piece of Thai Unryu paper with some lovely long paper fibers. I gave the paper a light coating of some clear matte inkjet precoat in order to boost the density and blacks on this somewhat translucent paper. The original image was shot with a Holga 120N.

Swept Away

2011-11-14T16:19:00.000-05:00

Camera on a tripod in a 50 mph wind and a storm surge. I think the exposure was about a minute.
Lower Darnley, PEI
Holga 120N

Fallen Empire

2011-11-09T15:53:00.000-05:00

The abandoned Woodleigh Replicas site in Burlington, PEI
Holga 120N

Miracle of the Sun

2011-11-04T15:58:00.000-04:00

Somewhere in the Middlesex Fells Reservation. Holga 120N

No Tech/Low Tech Show

2011-10-24T16:53:00.000-04:00

My image "Birdwatchers" will be in the upcoming No Tech/Low Tech exhibit at the Vermont Center of Photography in Brattleboro, Vermont. The show opens on November 4th and runs through the rest of the month. If you want to see the image, just head back a few posts. Better yet, head to the gallery and see it in person.

Northeastern Southwest

2011-10-15T15:30:00.000-04:00

Lower Darnley, PEI
Agfa Isoly with inverted Holga lens

Structure

2011-10-07T16:18:00.001-04:00

I've been experimenting recently with hand held multiple exposures with the Holga . This one is eight exposures if I remember correctly.

Off Season

2011-10-04T18:12:00.000-04:00

Seaview, PEI
Holga 120N

The flipped lens "Isolga" hybrid camera

2011-09-29T14:30:00.001-04:00

A while back I wrote about my Agfa Isoly camera in which I had transplanted a Holga lens element.
You can find more about that here.
I recently continued using my "Isolga" camera but this time I flipped the Holga lens element to see what the results would look like. So far, I quite like the results. Here are a couple of images.

Birdwatchers

2011-09-25T10:02:00.000-04:00

Newburyport, MA
Holga 120N

Continental Divide

2011-09-16T16:51:00.000-04:00

Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island
Holga 120N

No Evacuation Possible

2011-09-12T15:58:00.001-04:00

Newbury, MA
Holga 120N

North Rustico Harbour Sea Wall

2011-08-29T15:50:00.000-04:00

North Rustico Harbour, PEI
Holga 120N

Beef

2011-08-25T15:19:00.009-04:00

Saugus, MA
Holga 120N

Cactus

2011-08-21T16:28:00.000-04:00

Saugus, MA
Holga 120N

Toyed With Show...the invitation

2011-08-08T11:29:00.000-04:00

Here's the invitation for this year's Toyed With show at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado. Lots of unfamiliar names here, to me anyway. But I'm sure that I'm most likely an unfamiliar name to them as well. About half the prints in this show are "alternative" process prints such as wet plate collodion, platinum and van dyke. That surprises me somewhat, though I am not entirely sure why.
And B&W (or at least monochrome) greatly outnumbers color images as well. It's always interesting to me to see what a juror actually accepts into a show.
There are 26 images in the show by 25 different photographers. (I'm the lucky one with two images evidently.) You can see them online here with additional info regarding print process, title, etc. Just go to the "Gallery" section on the site and you'll be able to see both this year's and last year's accepted entries.

Evening Pool

2011-07-31T11:52:00.001-04:00

Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island
Holga 120N

2011 Toyed With Exhibition

2011-07-25T15:59:00.000-04:00

Two of my images, "Hay Field House" and "Edge of the Ocean", have been accepted into this year's Toyed With exhibit at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado. This year's juror was Michelle Bates. The show will run from August 27 to October 1. If you're in the area, drop by and check it out.

There will also be a "gallery walk" in Durango on September 16 from 5-9 pm when you can see this show as well as work in other local galleries.

North Rustic Chair #1

2011-07-20T15:27:00.000-04:00

North Rustico Harbor, PEI, Canada
Holga 120N

Photo + Craft Exhibit

2011-07-15T16:10:00.002-04:00

My image titled "Tree on Birch" has been accepted into the upcoming Photo + Craft exhibit at LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. The show will run for a seven week period from August 13 to

October 2. The opening for the show will be August 13. The images for this show will also available for viewing online at Plates to Pixels.

Blue Mitchell (of Plates to Pixels and Diffusion Magazine) and Michael and Chelsea Granger of LightBox Photographic were the jurors for this show.

If you are interested in the process used to create this image, just check back a few blog posts for the info.

Fells Art Show Images

2011-06-27T16:31:00.000-04:00

These are my images that were accepted into the "Celebration of the Fells Art Show". All three of these images have been exhibited previously in juried exhibitions. The top image is "First Snow" and was a "People's Choice" winner in the 2010 Krappy Kamera show. The middle image is "Hemlock Pool" and has been in three juried shows. The bottom image is "Vernal Pool"and has been in two shows previously. These images had been retired from competition and were happily living on the wall of my office at home but were brought out one more time for this very local show which is in a gallery only a mile or so from my home. The opening is Friday, July 1, from 7-9 pm at the Beebe Estate Gallery in Melrose, MA.
If you are local, come on by and say hi.

Celebration of the Fells Art Show

2011-06-23T19:06:00.005-04:00

Three of my images will be included in the Celebration of the Middlesex Fells Art Show which will be on display for the month of July at the Beebe Estate in Melrose, MA. The opening for the show will be on Friday, July 1 between 7 and 9 pm. For those of you unfamiliar with the Middlesex Fells Reservation, it is a conservation area of approximately 2,500 acres just north of Boston. I have always enjoyed taking
a walk with my Holga in these woods. I'll post the images in the next post.

Another Transfer onto Birch

2011-06-17T09:55:00.000-04:00

This is a recent ink transfer from an older image. For this transfer, I sealed the wood so that the alcohol gel mixture would sit on the wood and not soak in.
I applied a very liberal amount of alcohol gel to the wood and let the transfer material sit in place for about five minutes. I slowly (and I mean very slowly) removed the transfer material.
The excessive amount of alcohol gel caused many bubbles and dark cracks in the image, which is what I was going for here. After drying, I applied three coats of a spray gloss polyurethane and one coat of paste wax. It has a wonderful depth to it which is pretty hard to display from a flatbed scan. And I love all the imperfections caused by the alcohol gel solution. Ultimately I am trying to achieve something which has the feel of a wet plate image. I probably will attempt this on glass as well. Stay tuned.

More Experiments in Printing: Part Two

2011-06-12T16:34:00.000-04:00

A couple more inkjet transfers, but this time on birch plywood rather than paper. In a nutshell, the process
involves making a transfer image on
InkAid transfer material. That image is then transferred to the wood using a solution comprised mostly of 91% isopropyl alcohol.
I modified both of these a bit rather than leaving them as straight transfer prints. Both of these images were scorched with a plumber's torch after the ink had dried (the bottom image more so than the top). I also sanded much of the bottom image away after
being scorched. The top image has a
very light coat of stain as well.
I applied a couple of coats of a paste wax to both as a finishing coat.
The original image is a few dead trees which I shot with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash camera with an inverted lens.

The Last Stand

2011-06-08T15:54:00.000-04:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120S

Clown

2011-06-07T18:49:00.000-04:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

The Good China

2011-06-06T17:36:00.000-04:00

Boston, MA
Holga 120N

20,000 Flags

2011-05-27T15:49:00.000-04:00

Twenty thousand flags on Boston Common this weekend for those
from Massachusetts who have lost their lives in service since WWI.
This image was taken with an Anny
camera (a Diana camera clone).

More Experiments in Printing

2011-05-22T16:06:00.002-04:00

I've been experimenting recently on printing images on various media and then somehow layering them together to form one image.
This image is composed of an image printed on Unryu White paper layered on top of the same but darker image printed on glassine material.
The two images are slightly misaligned to create a sense of motion.

I'll post some additional layered stuff soon involving translucent papers as well as images created by layering various papers over metal and wood.

BTW, the original image for this was created with a Holga 120N.

Plastic Fantastic II Show

2011-05-16T09:58:00.000-04:00

I am happy to say that my image, "Washed In", has been accepted into the Plastic Fantastic II show. The exhibit will be on display at LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon between June 11th and July 6th. The juror for the show this year is extraordinary photographer Susan Burnstine.
More info on LightBox Photographic can be found here.

Foghorn #3

2011-05-10T10:56:00.000-04:00

My never ending fascination with this foghorn. This time in the fog.
South Boston, MA
Holga 120N

Mystic Motors

2011-05-04T14:34:00.001-04:00

I will shoot anything with the words "Mystic, Psychic or Art" in it. :)
Medford, MA
Holga 120N

Bellevue Pond

2011-05-03T15:08:00.001-04:00

Bellevue Pond
Middlesex Fells Reservation
Medford, MA
Holga 120N

Atlantis Falling

2011-04-30T16:10:00.000-04:00

Dorchester, MA
Holga 120N

Ford

2011-04-25T18:51:00.001-04:00

Found in a corner of the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Stoneham, MA.
Holga 120N

Handmaidens

2011-04-19T11:23:00.001-04:00

Chinatown storefront.
San Francisco, CA
Holga 120S

Mr. Bing's Cocktail Lounge

2011-04-14T15:47:00.000-04:00

Me: "Excuse me, sir, could I borrow your ladder for a second?"
Window washer guy: "What?"
San Francisco, CA
Holga 120S

Patti, San Francisco

2011-04-08T18:16:00.002-04:00

Alcohol Gel transfer print
Arches 88 silkscreen paper
Holga 120S
San Francisco, CA
"Distressed" version of this is on Flickr.

Plastic + Film Show at the Nave Gallery

2011-04-04T18:39:00.002-04:00

My image "Beach Walk" was accepted into the Plastic + Film exhibit at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA. The show runs from April 30 to May 21. This image was made with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera with an inverted lens. The print is an inkjet transfer print created with an image transferred to Arches silkscreen paper using Purell hand sanitizer as an agent to dissolve the ink for transfer.
So the print both looks and smells nice. :)

Phobos, Deimos

2011-04-02T17:26:00.000-04:00

It's baseball season!
Holga 120N

King of the Forest

2011-03-30T18:26:00.001-04:00

Cell tower, Hutchinson Parkway
Westchester County, NY
Anny Camera

Golden Gate-arama

2011-03-25T16:22:00.002-04:00

click image to view larger
Golden Gate Bridge "Holgarama"
San Francisco, CA
Holga 120S

Beyond the Realm of What

2011-03-21T17:08:00.001-04:00

Yountville, CA
Holga 120S

Golden Gate #2

2011-03-18T17:48:00.000-04:00

San Francisco, CA
Holga 120S

Rayko Plastic Camera Show Opening

2011-03-13T16:19:00.010-04:00

I was in San Francisco for the March 4 opening at the Rayko Photo Center for the 4th Annual Plastic Camera Show (see my previous post). The opening was packed and the work was indeed exceptional. And I was lucky enough to meet some wonderful folks there as well. I spent most of the two hours talking and looking at images, but I did manage to take a few shots as well.

Two Thomas Alleman photos

Deon Reynolds

Eben Ostby

My image (far right) and JM Goulding's image next to it (bottom)

Robert Holmgren ("batman" photo)

Ann Jastrab (left) taking photos with her Diana camera

Andrew Phillips (top photo)

Aline Smithson

Tom Debiec photo (far left)

Carol Mikkelson

Revere Beach Sea Wall

2011-03-09T18:49:00.000-05:00

Revere Beach, America's oldest public beach. Revere, MA.
Holga 120N

Rayko Plastic Camera Show Opening

2011-03-02T13:14:00.001-05:00

The 4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show opens this Friday night, March 4, from 6-8 pm in the gallery at the Rayko Photo Center located at 428 Third St in San Francisco. I was lucky enough to have a couple of images selected (see earlier blog post). If you are in the bay area, drop by and have a look.

Illuminated

2011-02-28T18:37:00.000-05:00

Taken with a Diana camera. Middlesex Fells Reservation, Stoneham, MA.

The Bridge Over Maple Meadow Brook

2011-02-23T17:54:00.001-05:00

Taken along the route of the Middlesex Canal at the Maple Meadow aqueduct in Wilmington, MA.
Holga 120S

Alcohol Gel Transfer

2011-02-20T16:01:00.005-05:00

This image was produced using the technique described in Bonny Lhotke's fabulous new "Digital Alchemy" book.
This print was made by transfering an image printed on
Inkaid transfer film to Arches 88 silkscreen paper using Purell hand sanitizer as the transferring gel.

I posted an image on flickr a few days ago which is this same image only made from a "distressed" piece of transfer film.
I enjoy this process. It's kind of a modern day Polaroid transfer process.
Each print that is produced is unique.
And there are several additional transfer processes in the book that I am chomping at the bit to try.

Beach Path

2011-02-15T18:11:00.000-05:00

The endless winter continues.
This was taken with my Anny camera
(a Diana clone) at Breakheart Reservation in Saugus, MA.

Creation Theory

2011-02-08T16:39:00.001-05:00

Snow storm at Spot Pond. Stoneham, Massachusetts
Holga 120N

Winter Shadows, Summer Game

2011-02-01T18:19:00.000-05:00

Taken outside of Fenway Park in Boston a couple of weeks ago with
a Holga 120S camera.

RayKo Photo Center Plastic Camera Show

2011-01-28T12:55:00.002-05:00

Two of my images, "One Mystic Ave" and "Six Rocks" have been accepted into the 4th International Plastic Camera Show at the RayKo Gallery in San Francisco, CA. The show will run from March 4 through May 1 with an opening reception on March 4.

Pickup Truck

2011-01-27T15:38:00.000-05:00

South Boston, MA
Holga 120S

The former planet known as Pluto

2011-01-20T16:33:00.003-05:00

Life's a bitch when you've had your
planetary status stripped away from you. Alas, poor Pluto. Destined to
live out it's days in a cold, open box in the Boston suburbs.
Taken with a Holga 120N.

Holga Out of the Box Competition

2011-01-12T18:26:00.004-05:00

My friends' horse Sassy is proud to announce that she received a third place award in the upcoming "Holga Out of the Box" show which opens at the TCC Photo Gallery in Longview, Texas on
February 19 and runs through March 25.

Thanks Sassy!

Six Rocks

2011-01-10T19:05:00.000-05:00

Spot Pond in Stoneham, MA
Holga 120N

Nine Windows

2011-01-08T14:57:00.000-05:00

Lowell, MA
Holga 120N

Forging into 2011

2011-01-01T12:19:00.000-05:00

I like to keep my new year's resolutions
as obtainable goals. So I set my sights low
with things like "make sure to get out of bed every day at some point", "walk the dog" and "don't forget to record Survivor
on Wednesday night".
This image was shot with a Diana clone
called an "Anny" camera. Taken in Boston, MA.

Erratic #2

2010-12-24T12:36:00.001-05:00

At Horn Pond Reservation.
Woburn, MA
Holga 120N

MIT

2010-12-21T17:49:00.002-05:00

The Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. It was designed by world-famous

architect Frank Gehry. Oh yeah, it leaks.

Taken with a Holga 120N camera.

Ask

2010-12-18T15:53:00.000-05:00

Lowell, Masschusetts
Holga 120N

Waiting

2010-12-14T17:33:00.003-05:00

I consider this shot a placeholder of sorts.
I love this scenario, but I am not crazy about my photograph. I need better light, a deeper sky to delineate the figure (a 25 red filter perhaps), and I need to step back about five or ten feet to include more space and perhaps even a passing car. But here it is, with all it's faults, nonetheless. This was taken in Revere, Massachusetts with a Holga 120N.

Star

2010-12-10T15:52:00.000-05:00

Shadow of holiday decorations on a utility pole in Everett, MA.
Holga 120N

Bird Man

2010-12-06T18:35:00.000-05:00

Revere, MA
Holga 120N

Not the Regular Route to Wonderland

2010-11-30T17:59:00.000-05:00

Revere, MA
Holga 120N

Passage

2010-11-26T15:36:00.000-05:00

Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA.
Holga 120N

Another "Isolga" image

2010-11-19T15:24:00.000-05:00

Another image from the first roll shot with my Agfa Isoly with a Holga lens.
More info in the previous post.

The "Isolga" hybrid camera

2010-11-17T12:06:00.001-05:00

I have always loved my Agfa Isoly camera. I always thought that if I had to design a toy camera from the ground up, it would have the build quality of the Isoly. The original Diana cameras were based on the Isoly. Of course, cameras like the Diana and Holga have those wonderful cheap plastic lenses and the lens on the Isoly is pretty blah (although I like the quality of flare you get with it).

Recently, with some spare time and a lens from a busted Holga, I decided to attempt a lens transplant. Removing the lens element from both the Holga and the Isoly is a pretty straightforward process. It just involves removing a couple of screws and popping the lens element out of each lens barrel. (I am not transplanting the entire lens barrel here, just the lens element). The Holga lens has a clear plastic flange around it which does need to be filed down to fit snugly into the Isoly lens barrel. The whole process took only about a half an hour. (Sorry that there is no accompanying step by step video but that's just not my thing.)

I like the resulting image quality from this camera. The results seem softer than I get with a Holga. It also seems to flare quite easily when pointed at the sun. You also lose the Holga vignetting as the lens is only covering a 4x4 image rather than a 6x6. But you do get 16 square images on a roll of film rather than 12. And although there is no double-exposure capability on the Isoly, there is an additional shutter speed of 1/30th of a second (in addition to 1/100th and B) with apertures

of f8 and f11.

This is hardly empirical testing since it is only based on my initial reactions to shooting one roll of film. But it is something that I will continue to shoot with for awhile and I will post more images

both here and on flickr. If anyone wants more info or has a comment, drop me an email (or leave a comment here).

Jim

Rings

2010-11-12T16:27:00.000-05:00

Another image from a recent photo outing to Lowell, MA. Taken with
a Holga 120N camera.

Setting Sun

2010-11-10T14:30:00.000-05:00

Lowell, MA
Holga 120N

The Lighthouse Photograph

2010-11-08T18:06:00.000-05:00

Salem, MA
Holga 120S

Growth

2010-11-05T15:33:00.000-04:00

South Boston, MA
Holga 120S

Door Number Two

2010-11-02T16:42:00.000-04:00

Dorchester, MA
Holga 120S

Halloween #7 - Tree Ghosts

2010-10-29T14:42:00.000-04:00

Stoneham, MA
Holga 120S