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I first started taking pictures when my father gave me an instamatic camera in 1974. My first real photograph, where I can still remember framing the photo and pushing the shutter, was a portrait of my red keds on the beach, with my family sort of in the distance.  When the film came back, this was the first in a long line of conversations about wasting film.  I started just looking through my instamatic and clicking the shutter without film inside. I think I honed my powers of observation with this and have memories of photos I did not take.

I miss film photography. I loved developing film and photographs in my makeshift dark room in the basement. I like to take pictures with a variety of cameras and have assembled some alternative lenses and old film cameras.  However, I don't miss the problems of keeping the chemistry at a constant temperature or of not having blocks of time. In that regard, I have taken to digital photography because I can pursue it in shorter bursts of time. Admittedly, I can also take as many pictures as the memory card will hold, without having to worry about wasting film. 

Photo Revel is a website to revel in photography. With the art of photography, we have some tangible proof of a moment that is, at the same time, subject to our vision. 
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  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
  • Galleries
    • variance
    • they're throwing rocks
    • flanerie
    • fleeting
    • fragments
    • ghost town
    • natura
    • gliese
    • inegnia
    • secrets
    • wabi sabi
  • Place-based Galleries
    • Recent Work | West Bottoms
    • Big Hendy
    • Big Hendy B/W
    • Charleston
    • Rural MO
    • Red Cloud
    • Kansas Abandoned Towns
  • Paris France
    • musées
    • nuit à Paris
    • châteaux
    • noir et blanc
    • jardins
    • scènes de rue
    • ossuaire et cemeterie
    • élaborations
  • Tallinn
    • Tallinn must ja valge fotograafia
    • Tallinna värvifotot
  • Central Europe
    • Budapest - Memento Park
    • Budapest
    • Vienna
    • Salzburg
    • Nürnberg
    • Regensburg
    • Göttweig Abbey
    • Krems an der Donau and The Wachau
    • Prague
    • TRAUMA WARNING - Theresienstadt/Terezin - ghetto and concentration camp
  • Shop