Why I should always have my camera...

[hunter]

6. My favorite thing in photography is seeing what I can do with a crappy camera...

... or an old fashioned chemical process.

I'm the only one who has to like my work. I'm never going to make money as an artist or photographer.

Here's two I posted recently:






The first was taken with a toy digital camera I found in a thrift store.

The second photograph was made through the magic of chemistry...

I don't have a darkroom anymore, or a large format negative scanner. Something I'd like to see would be 120 film on a base that wasn't clear, but turned white with developing. It could be developed in a reversal process, or the developed negative could be placed on an ordinary flatbed scanner and reversed electronically. I also like the look of contact prints made with negatives on cyanotype paper.

What I do is not a "lomography" or "instagram" photography because I've been making photographs this way since I was a kid in the 'sixties. But I do appreciate people who pay too much for cheap plastic cameras or old Soviet style equipment because they help keep chemical photography alive.