One of the great joys of shooting B&W film is seeing the contact sheets for the first time. For me, there is always a sense of excitement as I try to match what I had in my mind when I took the photos with what actually appears on the contact sheet. Looking at my contact...
After I did the write up on the Vivian Maier: Street Photographer book, I was thinking about why there were relatively few well-known women photographers compared to men photographers. I had a look at my bookshelf and found only 5 books by women photographers. Maybe it has something to do with the way men and women are...
In the 10 plus years that I have been involved in photography, I have read and owned only 1 book that contained the technical bit of photography (e.g. Exposure, ISO, Lenses, etc). The book was titled “National Geographic : Photography Field Guide“. It was simple enough for me to understand and I immediately put the...