Instacandid

  It’s a special occasion for me to set up my dark room and try and print 2 photos the best I can . My friend has the grand opening next Friday for the Darkroom at Division 9 Gallery in Riverside California and wanted one of my print on the gallery wall. I don’t think i ever spent so much time printing 2 photos before, roughly 2 and a half hours. So far I am 92% happy with the prints. FYI for me to say 100% is pretty much impossible.  I never had any luck scanning prints, however the following are “acceptable”, obviously the real print will look a lot better. What do you think of them?

Miss Lisa’s #7. Apparently 7th is the charm. I like this photo a lot, it makes me happy.
This is the print that I will be sending out.

Old Lady at Lewis’s Farm…

“I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.” — Mickey Rooney

When do we stop enjoying it like that, and what makes us stop?

How to entertain a little child in such a big museum as the Louvre?

Well, it’s simple. Just make a game out of it. Pick up a flier on the way in, which most of the times pictures some of the most important paintings and where they are. Then give a camera, phone or tablet to the kid asking them to find the paintings pictured in the brochure and to take photos of them. It worked miracles. She looked at each and every painting on the wall snapping away at the main attractions.

However, the Louvre is a massive museum and, after speeding from hall to hall and the enthusiasm started to wear down, we looked at other attractions. You will find a lot of people who sit down and sketch what has been pictured by the masters themselves. For little kids, just like ours, who eventually get tired and want to sit, this was…