Yaum's Photo Diary

 Been trying to learn more about Canadian history and Indigenous culture for the wet plate AMBROTOS KANATA project. Came upon this today fro...

Things are coming together, Hope to get the motorhome hitch stuff worked out this week followed by a two night test camping trip to a local ...

Put a lens board on another lens tonight, a Gundlach Portrait 350mm 15" . I will use it fir the wet plate project. This lens is a petz...

 

It is said her last word(s) were" "Beautiful."

" I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis."

  from Facebook.... This is the song that I got the pseudonym photo name YAUM from in 1999. "Yaum" (ยาม) also means "Security...

Got a Haloview MC7108  back up camera today, was worried about the $333 CAD price tag but decided to go forward. I figured for safety reason...

Bought a lens board adaptor for the 8x10 Deardorff. I will now be able to use all my Sinar lensboard mounted lens on Dads Deardorff. Those l...

from Facebook.. "Fanny" is home!! I think I will call the new-used wet plate RV "Fanny" as a tribute to both Frederick ...

Drove the RV Fanny today for the second time to show my mother. For a 28 foot long machine she handles quite nicely. I think with some pract...

Now that I have my towing vehicle Fanny (motorome) for AMBROTOS KANATA, I need to get out there and make some ambrotypes. I hope to get the ...

I decided to word simplify and pay tribute by naming the two vehicles that will be used in the AMBROTOS KANATA cross Canada wet plate projec...

Picked up a 360mm soft focus gizmo type lens. Never used anything like this before. The cost was right at $200 CAD plus shipping from Gran...

 I made the mistake of buying 2 lens at about the 1800mm size. One is the 1780mm Nikkor and the other the  Carl Zeiss Jena Apochromat Tessa...

My week off work starts tomorrow. I need to dive head long into the darkroom trailer, get the water pump working and prepare the trailer up ...

The "Silvergrain Classics Magazine” that includes THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP story is selling for $18.90 USD. https://www.freestylephoto....

The “Analog Forever Magazine” that includes THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP story is going for quite a bit, $49.50 USD https://www.goldstreetstudio...

 Thinking of getting a back up camera(s) for the RV, darkroom trailer set up. The RV is 28 feet, the trailer is 14, with the hitch gap were ...

 "I love living in Canada. I just, I just love it, I don't know what it is, I just love living in Canada."

This Ceylon photography by Julia Margaret Cameron has been haunting me the last few days.  A 150 year old photograph that haunts in 2021,  n...

Bought a motor home to use on the wet plate Canada photography project AMBROTOS KANATA. This unit is 21 years old, but I think (hope) it can...

Also attached the 600mm F9 Apo-Nikkor to a lens board. Picked this little lens up from a seller in Thai a few years back. I need to get a l...

Got my flange and lens board combo from S.K. Grimes today. I just attached it to my 42 inch F14 Artar Red Dot lens. I bought the lens way ba...