Yaum's Photo Diary

Am finished developing my 35mm stuff now moving on to the final lot of medium format b/w film. I shot a tiny bit of 120 Tri-x with a 65mm Fu...

Last night looking through a Christie's photograph auction catalog I found a wonderful simple portrait by Paul Strand. The image is of a...

Contacted a friend who I had not talked to in 10 years plus yesterday. Where was he? The guy was on a fricking sailboat on the Caribbean not...

I got my small library room all finished last night, got all the books off the floor of my basement and stacked on shelves neatly in the lib...

Got the Linhof 4x5 out and did some testing with Tri-x. I want to try some zone portrait photography over the next while. I used a standard ...

Am on my days off trying to organize things and doing some darkroom work as well. In the dark I am trying to finish off all my film developm...

"Subjectivity is not a crime."

"To me the important thing in making a visual statement is pleasing yourself, and then doing whatever must be done to bring that satis...

Been enjoying watching these darkroom lessons on youtube provided by Tom Johnston. http://www.youtube.com/user/ZoneIII?blend=18&ob=5

Finished developing all my 4x5 b/w film from the trip, here are the final scans.

My contact@gerryyaum.com email is down again, the second time in the last few months. I am not sure why this is happening but if you need to...

"Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft-but never the completed ve...

"What I want is for my photographs to be the subject of discussion. I believe that photographers who get involved in social journalism ...

These scans are from the last box of 4x5 Khon Thai photos.

The environment that surrounds the people speaks about the people, sort of an indirect portrait. I think I will work and do landscapes/citys...

Shot a few 4x5 b/w flash photos when I did the color heads, not sure they work but wanted to experiment a bit with portable flash indoors wi...

This is about it when it comes to new 4x5 Khon Thai photos, I only shot a bit of this style of image on the streets of Thailand (once I buil...

Sometimes you meet good people by accident, people who help you and encourage your work. A while back I got a new (old/used) camera, a 5x7 ...

"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes-just sometimes- one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awaren...

This morning before starting up in the darkroom (developing film), I was reading about some of Atget's work. I was looking over several ...

Am quite excited by what might happen with the Leica M6 and 28mm F2 in the future, I need to work harder with it and carry it everywhere I g...

Shot some Xpan 35 tri-x as well this last trip. I had trouble composing the long panoramic at times and also made errors when shooting quick...