Yaum's Photo Diary

 

Miller made so few outstanding images, you gotta use them all. The shocking drowned SS guard image and the photo of her in Hitlers bath HAVE...

 

 

 

The Lee Miller show at the Polygon in Vancouver is big let down.    80% of the exhibition is old rather boring fashion pics. A small room ha...

American Presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Munroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, J...

Started reading the compassionate and beautiful novel “Cry, the Beloved Country”. Written in 1948 by Alan Paton. Am enjoying it.  Reading is...

Picked up some mini bus pan trays that will work well with the 11x14 plates. 3 for $4.50 each from Goodwill. Thrifts shops provide most of m...

I did further tests using honey on 11x14 Ambrotypes. Mixed a 2 part honey to 1 part water solution. Let the first plate sit for 1 day before...

 I am pretty inconsistent with my gym work but today was  pretty good. - Walked fast on the track for 30 minutes plus. - 200 calories on the...

My PowerPoint for the coming two camera club talks in Edmonton and Red Deer are improving. All money earned at these talks will be used to h...

Spent several hours tonight working on my Social Documentary Photography PowerPoint presentation. I have two talks coming up. One in Red Dee...

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that .”

Trying to figure out which Xenar lens will be better for my 11x14, 14x14 inch tight head ambrotype portraits. Should it be the 360mm or the ...

Looking to start doing wet plate headshots this year. Will be making shallow focus tight heads onto 11x14 and 14x14 inch clear glass plates,...

I added Walmart Acetone to my old Collodion to see if I could revitalize it a bit. Online they recommend 1 drop of Acetone to 100ml of old m...

 Did up an 11x14 inch Ambrotype for the first time in a long time tonight. Was using old collodion and a vinegar developer with sugar. 1000 ...

My Course of life has attained,  Through stormy seas, and in a flimsy vessel,   The common port, at which we land to tell All conduct's ...

Today’s thrift store buy. $8.80 CAD. 604 pages. When I go back to the Vatican I want to know more!! Around $100 CAD new. There is so much b...

The king looks down on his Kingdom from his new favourite sleeping place, under the Gauguin and above my bed! Dimsum watching me read.

Please give the 2025 documentary "Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On" a viewing. It is only 59 minutes long, and has much t...

Was thinking of a possible design for my Ambros in dip and triptychs, using hinges. The idea is to able to mount 11x14 inch and 14x14 inches...

Bought a thrift shop framed poster detail from the Raphael painting “The Sistine Madonna”. It is of two mischievous, dreaming Cherub type an...