the last word

This morning, I opened the collection of Nighthawks images that are tweaked for matte printing and printed them out, one to a page, on a laser printer. I spread them all out on the bed and went through my stock of 17×22 Nighthawks pictures, pulling out the ones that matched the laser-printed ones. I didn’t… [Read More]

I got up this morning thinking about printing two more of the PhotoCalligraphy series. I turned on the printer and made tea while it did its thing. When I pulled out the paper, my heart fell. The scrapes were back. Refusing to panic, I checked the platen gap. It was set to standard. Turning off… [Read More]

When I posted yesterday, I had just gotten my first 17×25 print out of my Epson 3800, and it looked great. I was stoked. I printed another. Uh-oh. The print had little whitish horizontal marks in the black background at the top part of the image. The marks didn’t go clear across the page, but… [Read More]

An impending event like PhotoLucida can stir a photographer to action. Like this: there are all these new people who are going to see my work; now that I think about it, there are things I’d like to change. Or, this: I’ve been meaning to do xyz, but I never got around to it; now… [Read More]

Last week, I got an email from PhotoLucida with biographical information for all the reviewers. This year they also included the reviewer’s answers to a series of questions. The questions ranged from, “What kind of work are you interested in seeing?” to “What can you offer photographers?” Although not every reviewer filled out the questionnaire,… [Read More]