My new old camera arrived today. A Kodak Brownie Starflex. It’s gorgeous. It’s smaller than I expected but I can still rig it up for Through the Viewfinder shooting. I might even be able to hack it to use some 35mm film with it since it seems to still be working.
One of four prints that I submitted for a group show at th’yarc, the local theatre here. If you’re in Yarmouth through the month of February, be sure to stop by.
There have been a couple of changes here on the site. First, my exposure manager page for direct ordering of prints is gone. If you want a print of anything (and most are available) just e-mail me at info[at]adamgrahamphoto.com.
Also, I’ve started to release my images under this Creative Commons license. If you want one of my images for non-commercial use just click on the image to go to its flickr page. From there click on ‘all sizes’ and you’ll be able to download it. Non-commercial use and please include attribution. I may post more about this decision sometime soon.
I’m kind of up in the air over this picture but Sherrie really liked it so I thought I’d post it anyway.
Orca magazine, a pdf photography magazine, included one of my images in their ‘Green’ issue. It’s free, so no excuses for not checking it out.
I’m an unapologetic CBC fan. So, I was tickled pink to see that the image that I sent in to Q’s virtual museum was accepted. I’d like to think Jian himself approved mine.
Yesterday afternoon we welcomed Phillip Benjamin Graham into the world. Both Sherrie and Phillip are doing really well.
I’ve added a new essay to the Features section of the site about how growing up in Saint John, New Brunswick helped shape the way I see. It was originally published as a part of Utata.org’s My Town section.
I grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, on the eastern coast of Canada. The Bay of Fundy, stretching between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, is one of the foggiest areas in the world—and Saint John is one of the foggiest places on the bay. Being situated on the harbour where the St. John River runs into the bay turns Saint John into a natural fog machine. The city sees fog for at least some portion of the day on a full one-quarter of the days of the year. Throughout the year there are different types of fog: some hovers in an ironic bright gloom, some only hangs in wisps over in the water in the morning, and some switches back and forth all day with rain. My favorite fog, though, is the kind that rolls in thick and fast on summer nights. A blanket of gray quickly covers the city, quieting noises and muting colours. Although I do not live there now, spending my youth in Saint John left me with a few key photographic tools and a love for nature—now the subject area that interests me the most. (continue reading)
10,000th visit to my flickr photostream today! Tiny compared to a lot of people over there, but a nice number nonetheless.
More good news today. This is a screengrab of yesterday’s photo as spotlighted on Utata.org today. What does this mean you ask? Well, it means that while it is the newest spotlight a small version of the picture is on the Utata front page. Then it stays in the spotlights archives. It makes for a lot of people seeing my photo. I’m especially delighted because I love Utata so much.
The first issue of Photosho, an awesome new Canadian photography magazine, arrived today. All four copies. Why such an obsessive number of copies? Well, that’s the first two pages of a feature of some of my Through the Viewfinder images that they put in a ’shocase’. I also have one image in the regular gallery section of the mag. I’m extremely happy with the feature and the overall quality of the magazine. If you didn’t pre-order, you can buy a copy from their site.