Yaum's Photo Diary

Found these stats on the blog today. This is my all time pageview count history by country. Saudi seems like a strange one at number 4 all ...

I was unhappy with bits and pieces of the statements I have mounted so far so am going to try again. I bough some dollar store ($1.25 a sma...

Here are the exhibitions that will be taking place during Exposure 2015. They include a nice little write up on the show, gallery, and one ...

Here is a capture of the official Edmonton "Exposure Photography Festival" invitation Joanna, Larry's wife sent me it today (...

If any of you are in Calgary or visiting you might want to attend this fundraiser. It certainly is for a good cause, promoting photography ...

B&H just got better, they already have the cheapest prices online and now they have an new feature on many of their items, free Canadia...

This would be one hell of a lot of fun to use as a wet plate or film camera in studio. The price of this thing currently is $2100 USD on eB...

Check out the video we are going to show at the coming exhibition, at the 5 minute mark you can see a family cooking rice on an open fire. ...

Here is my second attempt at the artist statement. This time the word files were printed on photo quality paper. There is a seam between th...

Larry is printing up 3 super large 48inch by 60inch foam core posters for the coming exhibition. He will place the posters in his windows t...

Well a bit of relief here in Gerry gets ready for exhibition land. I managed to get a different type of photo quality paper working in my w...

Did up the "Families of the Dump" artist statement on a off white higher quality paper mounted to some foam core board. It looks ...

"I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel, that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy...

While reading the great Elie Wiesel non fiction novel "Night" (about his life in the holocaust), I came up with a book idea of my...

I am having trouble concentrating these days, worried more and more about dad. Dad is getting weaker and weaker, sometimes he has troubles ...

Am out of prints to frame. The "Families of the Dump" work is framed and ready to hang. I might make some minor adjustments, chan...

As I have been replacing some of the Klong Toey prints with dump photos over the last while a rather desperate thought has occurred. Why no...

Things are going fairly well with show preparations, the only concern I really have now is getting the artist statements made up. I planned...

Did up another 5 more prints, 5 more spotted and framed. Tonight I did 5 more dump photos which gives me a total of 15 (counting the contac...

Dreamt of my father, after a good nights sleep he was strong enough to walk on his own again. He went shopping and bought some stuff, after...

Decided to upload a higher quality version of the latest flip through magazine to Vimeo.com. This flip through is for my mixed picture maga...

Looking at some of my show prints I find I like the ones that have more bleaching. I think in the future I will bleach my show work more st...

I have been thinking why some people test and test and never truly commit to their photography, I think its a form of fear. If you say your...

Well I got another 5 dump prints spotted, framed and matted tonight.That makes a total of 10 dump prints along with 1 dad print completed, ...

Sent out all my invitations last night, to work friends, a few relatives and photo friends. Now its up to them, to come or not to come, I h...

When asked if there was any difference between male and female photographers. "No. Absolutely not. No difference. On many occasions ...

I did up my first 4 "Families of the Dump" pictures for the coming photo exhibition "Living in the Margins" tonight at ...

Here are the 3 mags I received from Blurb today. There are some printing errors on a few of the pics. They seem to have trouble printing wh...

I am not sure I will be able to get a good print out of this negative. The neg is very dense not sure ifs its over development (stand) or e...

Here is the picture magazine, I made the images a bit contrasty but I like the feel of this magazine, has a harshness to it I quite like. I...

Working tonight but I have a few hours so I am going to put in some more time on the dad 6th print (6 of 8). Everything else is going very ...

I received my package with 9 blurb mags today (3 different types x3 mags each). One less thing to worry about. I will place these out at th...

I had a good weeks worth of darkroom work. Everyday this week I put in some time, maybe as much as 10 hours some days. I am now sitting com...

Here is a link to the Vimeo.com page for the "Living in the Margins - Families of the Dump" exhibition context video. I had to re...

Did up my first framed exhibition print today (kinda). It is actually not a show print but an enlarged RC contact sheet with markings. Beca...

Visited dad last night, he was doing a bit better. I think mom and I have managed to cheer him up a bit, he seems less down now. He asked f...

Here is a darkroom capture of tonight's second white background photo I printed of dad for the coming exhibition. I like the shallow de...