Yaum's Photo Diary

I have been studying the work of some new photographers lately, one out of Turkey named Nuri Bilge Ceylon (my friend Larry Louie showed me a...

Photo of Bla from the "Human Voices " show in the VAAA daily visuals blog. http://visualartsalberta.blogspot.ca/2012/04/gerry-ya...

Found this wonderful Ansel Adams documentary from the American experience series. The doc is illuminating and honest, loved it. http://www...

"Since 1988 I have processed my negatives in a Jobo rotary processor. Using Jobo Expert film drums, I have achieved optimal repeatabili...

Photo of Aek from the "Human Voices " show in the VAAA daily visuals blog. http://visualartsalberta.blogspot.ca/2012/04/gerry-ya...

In the future I want to try and photograph, print and post more pics showing the beauty of nature. I have always photographed the natural la...

"You take the work seriously but you don't take yourself seriously and if you keep that in mind you'll do well the rest of your...

Been looking at the vids of Clyde Butcher in the swamps of Florida and reading about Ansel Adams work in Alaska. It makes me think that I mi...

You got to admire a hardworking devoted photographer and modest guy to boot like Clyde Butcher, check out those print trays! http://www.yo...

Here are the first photos shot for "Common Lives" from November. Some photos were made with direct flash some with available light...

Started developing the film from last trip tonight. Now that the VAAA show work is done I can concentrate on film development. I did a serie...

Am scanning some of the film from earlier this year I never got around to working on before. These shots are from the November trip to Thai...

I started using only one film and one developer for my important photography a few years back that film is Kodak Tri-x, the developer is D-7...

A few shots of my very crowded darkroom, I need to clean out some of the stuff I do not use often so I have more working room. Jobo, sp...

Abandoned coal mining buildings Nordegg, Alberta. Rob singing a tune as he makes a photo.

A few digi shots from the day in Nordegg at their old coal mining facility.  Rob With his new dark cloth hat. ...

I belong to two clubs of photographers and one meet up group. The club members number approximately 25-30 people, I have known these folks f...

Here are a few more digi snaps from the show. I took these at the end of the evening when most people at left, honest it was more crowded e...