Yaum's Photo Diary

This line from the Yeats poem "The Heart of The Woman" has stuck with me. "My breath is mixed into his breath." The...

Exhibition print #1 looks OK for the coming AGSA show. I have now started testing and have made a mask for the #2 print. My second choice f...

After a bit of laziness today I got into the dark, turned on the John Coltrane jazz (a new LP "Stardust") and got back to work on...

On experiencing racism. "I was just on the TODAY show and they were telling me how wonderful I was and I walk out into the reality o...

"People aways leave traces. No person is without a shadow." The Troubled Man

What of the joys of working the darkroom is dancing in the dark. The music is playing, your in the zone making a print and then the fever h...

I am very well rested and plan a great day ahead. I will print for next years exhibition at the AGSA and listen to jazz LPs while working. ...

Fell asleep for 15 minutes and went straight into a dream about dad. We were at his home in the family room. I was talking to him about dyi...

"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and seventy." "Star quality is if you're on s...

Here are the latest "Families of the Dump-Forgotten Laughter" scans from the Mae Sot dump. Yet more photos that seem destined to ...

Well my Jazz record collection continues to grow, both in vinyl LPs and Cds (mostly records). I am concentrating on the sax players. John C...

I have been thinking of getting a drone to use in my upcoming documentary film attempt.  This is the unit I might purchase, the DJI Mavi Pr...

I got an adapted reflex back made up for me by Procameraus in Charlottesville, VA, USA. I used the same people that Dave Burnett used for ...

While looking over a book of Renaissance painting I came up with an idea of which dad negs to use in the AGSA exhibition. In the book there...

You know what the hardest part of learning anything creative? Getting through the technique BS stages. Learning the saxophone is like that....

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

Been doing lots of tests of the "My Fathers Last Days" pain photograph. I want to give the image a contrasty, harsher more diffic...

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

When asked what their favorite photograph is. "The one I am going to make tomorrow."

Had a good, fun view camera workshop yesterday. My student a professor at the University of Calgary risked life and limb driving North up a...

I got my Saxophone, it has arrived!!! I had to pay UPS an additional $154 CAD in fees ($91 for brokerage) but I finally got my sax. Started...

His Royal Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand passed away today, he was 88 years old. The Thai King (Rama 9) is highly revered and ...

Picked up a bunch of Opera records today at the Good Will store for $8. I only had one other Opera LP (accidental buy) and enjoyed it so wa...

Well it did not take long. I took a 2 hour late afternoon nap today and the first dad dream happened. I was in my darkroom working when ...

I am the process of going through my "Dads Last Days" negs and deciding exactly what 7 negs I will print to 20x24 inches. As I br...

Back on the blog today, have not been writing much as work has been a bitch. We are in shutdown at the plant where I work security meaning ...

To-day the clouds are with him, but anon He'll out of em enough to shake the tree Of life itself and bring down fruit unheard-of-- A...

I am still haunted by what I saw 13 years ago at a brothel in Poi Pet Cambodia. I remember the young women sitting out front of the brothel...

"I like danger, and when you face things that scare you and you survive, you've conquered your anxiety, which is worse than the da...

I got my two boxes of 16x20 Ilford HP5 today, the boxes were shipped up from Calgary's Camera Store to my home here in Edmonton. I now ...

I had a rather difficult experience on Saturday night, I sat at "Dads Spot" in the Radium Hot Springs swimming pool. We were at t...

I found this short video quite interesting and worth a look. Printer Marc McClish working with Photographer James Nachtwey on an exhibition...

I have been in Radium Hot Springs (British Columbia) relaxing the last few nights, here is an email I sent to a friend . Saw something r...

Some more from the last trip to Thailand in April-May 2016. Boy taking bath in the dump, Mae Sot Thailand April-May 2016 Dump d...

This photo was made in the Klong Toey Muay Thai gym in Bangkok. I photographed in this gym numerous times over the years, probably over 15...

Some more photos from the last trip. Woman working the dump garbage, Mae Sot Thailand April-May 2016 Young Chimiko in his family ...

Have a  view camera workshop scheduled for the 14th. The student seems like a very dedicated person, they are driving all the way up from C...

I bought a new alto saxaphone! I decided to pay a bit more, intially was thinking to get one for around $500 CAD, ended up paying $1095 and...

Sent an email to a friend this afternnoo, here is snippet from it: With a rediscovery of Dupree's music I have been pulled back into ...

Yesterday I sent an email out to the world class photojournalist David Burnett. I asked him to help me me with attaching a reflex viewfinde...

I had a rather surreal blown away moment today when I got to work. It is a bit of a long story but I wanted to share it, here it goes. Ba...

Today got another gallery rejection for the "Forgotten Laughter: Families of the Dump" photographs. Their story it seems will nev...

Gosh found this today. Not sure it is a SUPER article but it sure is a SUPER memory for me. The photo and link was on the jazz blog site, w...

Got My Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm F2.5 Lens With Speed Graphic Camera today. The bad: - There is no f-stop diaphragm on the Aero Ektar lens ...