I'm not one to follow trends, but I think this one is very interesting. Some people from the film community were summarizing their year on Twitter: how many shots taken, cameras used, film stocks ran... and what not.
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The Holga is dead, long live... the Rolleiflex!
You might remember I picked up a Holga a few months ago as a way to shoot 120 film when the situation didn't allow me to bring the heavier Bronica along (think of long hikes or very cold temperatures).
The Holga wasn't for me, or I wasn't for the Holga.
Read MorePutting your own platform first
This is a recurrent new year's resolution, but this time I'm very serious about this one: putting my own platform, aka this website, first.
I use and plan on keeping using many social networks: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube... I believe they are very important to reach people who might be interested in what you do, no matter what that is.
But I also believe that you should have a centralized place where anyone can find almost anything about that thing that you do. A place you can refer someone to, instead of giving them your Instagram handler. And this website is not that place. At least not yet.
I've been prioritizing other platforms, posting my newest content there first, but that changes in 2018.
Let's do it.
These shots are digital and most of them were taken from the inside of a warm, cozy car
Photographing a harsh environment
We are going to spend the next two months in Northwest Indiana, where the conditions are far from perfect and very, very different from what I'm used to. This is how I plan on approaching landscape photography in artic temperatures and with no wilderness in hundreds of miles.
Read MoreShooting film - Moonrise
Last week, out of ideas of where to go or what to shoot, I remembered the moon would be full soon. I had only shot the moon a few times before, so I thought it could be a cool thing to try to capture on film.
Read MoreShooting film at Larch Mountain
I'm still getting familiar with [my new Bronica](https://aows.co/blog/my-new-camera-bronica-sq-ai), so I've been looking for all kind of light situations to get to know it as much as I can. I also have a few new lenses to try!
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