Month: October 2010
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Boy of Blue – Macabre and Unusual Pinhole Camera Art
Wayne Belger is, among other things, a photographer. But he doesn’t just grab his twelve megapixel high-end digital camera to shoot. He builds his own. And when I say he builds his own cameras, you better believe he goes the extra mile to make each camera unusual and extraordinary. You see, his pinhole cameras are…
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Ectokynamics
I have recently been studying Ectokynamics under the tutelage of a mentor who shall remain nameless at this time. Ectokynamics is truly the answer to many of life’s persistent, unanswered questions. Questions such as ‘What were those lights in the sky last night over El Paso?’, ‘Why do I keep thinking I see someone at…
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Russian color photography ca. 1910
Now here is something truly amazing. The Boston Globe reports on a set of color photos of the Russian empire from around 1910. How did this happen, you ask? Well… Back in the early 20th century, between 1905 and 1910, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a scientist and a photographer, had the idea of educating school children…