Yaum's Photo Diary

Do fish drink? Maybe that's sailor, yes I am "Spending Money Like A Drunken Sailor!" tonight I accidentally bought 2 Rolleifl...

Got a Graflex wooden lens board with a hole big enough for my brass lens, cost was $28.58 USD. That price is quite a bit cheaper than my ot...

My work out numbers during my night shifts continue to climb, now they include: 2x 40 push ups (up from 20) 2x 40 sit ups and leg crosse...

I have 3 scheduled photography workshops to teach this week. A darkroom workshop on Tuesday with Vincent and 2 workshops a darkroom a View ...

Got this item off eBay today, it holds 12 4x5 sheets. Very old school piece of equipment called a bag mag or Kodak Folmber Schwing 4x5 Maga...

Here are a few stereo photos from today's Sputnik mosquito fest. I did have loading problems as I only got 3.8 sets of negs onto a roll...

Ran around in the back yard this morning dodging mosquitoes and put my first roll of 120 Tri-x through the Sputnik stereo. Figuring out h...

I am buying a Yankee 4x5 development tank for my 4x5 sheet film. I develop all my sheet film in a Jobo processor but I wanted be able to do...

Just read that the great photographer Irving Penn used a Rolleiflex for many of his top images. I guess Penn shot a Tessar lens version of ...

I got a very good price on a 6x9 Graflex 23 carrier for my Graflex Super D. I have always loved the 6x9 roll format size (matches 35mm and ...

The Russians are coming, the Russian are coming, yep their here now, welcome comrade! I got my 100% genuine black plastic Sputnik stereogra...

Several years ago 2 nice gentlemen from Apug  (analog photography users group) sent me 3 Linhof 5x7 camera lensboards for free! For several...

The Graflex in its day must have been so revolutionary, no wonder they made them forever. Even today shooting a 4x5 handheld while composin...

Here is one of the 1/30 of a second Graflex shots from yesterday morning. It is pretty hard to hold a SLR with a 190mm lens steady at 1/30 ...

"In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail."

Found out about this documentary tonight. The doc tells the story behind the making of the famous Edward Weston nudes with Charis Wilson. M...

Bought a wood lens board for my Graflex and brass barrel lens. This purchase is a real shot in the dark, maybe I will hate the look of the ...

There is a real beauty to using the Graflex Super D. I am still a bit unsure about the 190mm Ektar lens but I love the feel of the camera c...

Yesterdays Graflex negs were underexposed, no shadow detail at all. After seeing those disappointing negs I grabbed my Graflex (Pong) and w...

I  bought a Rollieflex Tessar 75mm F3.5 camera today. I am not sure how old this camera is but it is supposedly tested and in 100% working ...

The AGA, The Alberta Gallery of Art, sent me this submission info today. They are having their 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art Su...

Today's 6 foliage photos with the Graflex were shot at 1/200 and F8. I metered the scene with a reflected light meter which metered the...

Here are some scans from the Graflex photos taken yesterday. The 2 pics are hand held at F5.6 and 1/125. The Tri-x film was exposed at 200 ...

On God. "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one, I prefer an attitude of humility c...

I developed the 12 sheets of Graflex 4x5 film I shot yesterday. I opened the jobo tank, peered in, and with a deep breath pulled out the fi...

I bought 8 wooden 4x5 Graflex style film holders tonight. The cost was $26USD plus $38USD for shipping (trying to get that lowered a bit). ...

 I have been thinking of giving the camera a female name, is that weird? Maybe so! Still it could be fun. It would allow me to be me arty f...

Within a few hours of my getting the Graflex RB Super D, I had shot 12 sheets of 4x5 Tri-x. The Graflex is a fun camera to shoot, thou I di...

Turns out the 6 sheet Graflex Grafmatic holder I got with the Super D is actually a bit different than the other 7 or 8, 6 sheet Graflex Gr...

WOW, finally today my Graflex arrived and it's beauty. The camera seems to be in 100% working order, I will start shooting it tonight. ...

I wanted to get a magnifier glass device to test out with my Graflex Super D. I hope the magnifier will help with ease of focus. I read onl...

After seeing Jock Sturges work on the "Rollei Project" photos I had a bit of a rethink on how the "Lost Innocence" proj...

Found this cute story online, Thanks Ben C for sharing. This was the Epiphany moment for the photographer. My moment came when, at around...

Got off to a bit of a slow start workshop wise this year but things are coming along now. Last year I think I did 8 or 9 workshops. Over th...

Just realized one of the few world level photographers I know and have talked to at length did a book called the "Rollei Project"...

"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."

"Man is here for the sake of other men..."

My online friend James who keeps me updated on anything Salgado advised me of 2 new Sebastiao Salgado books just released. I bought the Ame...

His last words: "Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all -- the so...

Doing a some development over the next week for a friend. Jack the man who gave me all his darkroom equipment not long ago as me to develop...

Had a good morning today, did 33kms on the bike. On my ride today I tried something different, I went down into the river valley in search ...

This is down right terrifying, all those little screws, imagine putting this back together after it was in pieces. I do not have the skills...

It is not always easy tell who the bad guy is, sometimes we (I) jump to conclusions. The world is very grey not black and white like we som...

I think this is the same article as the one I posted before but it also seems different This story was only posted on May 23, 2015. I am qu...

Since I have had 2 people respond (taking 4 courses) from Calgary and 1 person from Saskatoon (2 courses). I have decided to work on expand...

Just found this online. I wonder if I could make 3D black and white prints that would slide in and work with this viewer. It could be just ...

My next trip Asia I plan on continuing to work on "Families of the Dump" as well as adding "Forgotten Laughter" into th...

I have been thinking that I might be able to use this Sputnik camera as a compliment to my 2D shows. If had another exhibition for example ...

I have been reading a bit online in regards to problems with the Sputnik cameras. One of the main issues is the highly reflective shiny bla...

Bought my first ever stereoscopic camera today. It is a Russian made Sputnik. I ended up buying it for a very good price, $94USD and $35 fo...