The Duaflex

Posted on January 14, 2019 Posted in Analog PhotographyTagged 5x5, 620 film, Analog Photography, Delaware Ohio, Duaflex, film, I shoot film, Kodak, Kodak Film, ohio, Ohio Explored, retro, squares, vintage, Vintage Cameras2 Comments

Several years ago a high school friend sent me a package of vintage cameras that she wasn’t using anymore. It was a hugely kind gesture and they quickly were added to my already growing shelf of vintage cameras. Then life happened and I never got back to find film for any of them.

Until now.

Introducing, The Duaflex:

The Duaflex was manufactured by Kodak and this version was produced between 1954-1957. It a cute box camera that is about as easy to use as a point and shoot camera and that’s exactly what it was intended for. Kodak isn’t making the film for it anymore (620 film), so it took me a while to find a place that manufactures a replica of 620 film. And then it still sat on a shelf not using it because I was a little intimidated by the old levers and the backward viewfinder but now that I’ve gotten over the intimidation I realize that it’s a sweet, little, simple machine.

The other day I shot 12 shots in a test roll, and these are my favorites. These are all unedited images. The scratches, vignettes and the colors are all through the lens. I can’t wait to shoot another roll!

All photographs shot on Kodak Duaflex III / Ektar 100 film. Shot of the camera taken by iPhone.

Needles Highway and the rest of 2018

Posted on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Posted in Analog Photography, Digital Photography, Mobile Photography, ohio, PhotographyTagged 35mm, america, animals, canon, city, Digital Photography, film, filmphotgraphy, flowers, garden, nature, ohio, Photography, rain, retro, road trip, rocks, south dakota, vintageLeave a comment

So it’s obvious to see that after my last post about the Badlands in September, my website was really neglected for the rest of the year. And that’s probably because of several things:

School
Cross Country Season
Birthday celebrations
Burn out
The annual time of the year that I start to ask again, “Why the heck do I even blog?”
Then Halloween
Then Thanksgiving
Then Christmas
Then…. New Happy Year!

And so here we are. Over the last 12 years I’ve published 5 different blogs (including this one) and have written the same sentence over and over again that reads similarly as: “Hi Everyone, Sorry I’ve been away so long!” But I’m not writing that this time. The concept and the reasons for blogging has changed over the years so it’s not always the back and forth conversation happening like it used to. That’s what Facebook is for.

However I would still like to keep this site going again. It’s my home base for all my photographs and current information on art exhibits, works in progress, and ambitions. But to start the year 2019 with a bang, I have to close up 2018. There were lots of photographs I hadn’t published here yet in the later part of the year, so without further ado, here they are on digital and film….