Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light

Its crazy. Darkrooms used to be found all over. Its hard to find them any more. Their demise in the face of digital reminds me a lot of gradual disappearance of grain elevators here in Alberta. There is just something magical and special about the old film days. Taking a roll of film and with one part science and one part alchemy breath life into it and turn it into a print.
Here is a photo essay on some of these fading icons:
http://www.richardnicholson.com/darkroom/

Left Brain vs Right Brain

Not exactly photography related but definitely on topic about creativity in general.
This link is to an interesting test for whether you are right brained or left brained:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html


Apparently, if you concentrate, you can see the dancer change from anti-clockwise to clockwise. I apparently lack that ability and in fact only see her going clockwise which indicates that I am right brained. I guess I should be satisfied that I can see her spin at all because that might indicate that I have no brain!

Photojournalism entry...

Last night, at the first meeting of the Foothills Camera Club in 2009, we went over the results of the photojournalism competition. I am happy to say that I did pretty well and received a second place ribbon for one of my entries.



One comment that came up for a couple of entries was that the judges felt that without the title there was no story. After the meeting there was some discussion on this point and to be honest I could see both sides point. I think that a photojournalism shot should have enough to make the viewer want to know more. That is, the shot should stand on its own. The title or caption, can be used to help convey the story or message that the photographer was striving for.

On the other hand, if the whole story is told by the title I think it weakens the effectiveness of the image.