Retro Camera

Found Objects 3-26-2012

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Found Objects 3-26-2012

Haven’t posted one of these walking-the-dogs snapshot series in a while. I like taking “the kids” out for a walk around the neighborhood, slip in an iPod earbud, get caught up on the podcasts. Time to think, look around. Sometimes the light is just so beautiful, it makes me wish I had the Canon 7D and a simple tripod that I can just sling over the shoulder to stop + set up + record some footage. Got to work on that. If anybody has some suggestions, I’d like to hear them. At least, having the Android smart phone, I’ve...

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Retro Camera – Walking Hollywood Park

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Retro Camera – Walking Hollywood Park

Thinking of calling this “Smart Art” — taking art photos with your smart phone. When I take our dogs Ava and Alex out for walks around the neighborhood (we live in a section of Sacramento called Hollywood Park, just across from South Land Park) I always carry my Android phone with me. You never know when you’re going to have an emergency or see something and need to make a phone call. So far, thankfully, that hasn’t happened. But I always like carrying a camera with me and the Android has a cool photo app called Retro Camera, that...

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Occupy Wall Street – Occupy Philadelphia

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Occupy Wall Street – Occupy Philadelphia

The Occupy Wall Street movement is now going into its second month. It’s getting colder and wetter out side so it will be a test of their endurance through the winter months. But I think they’ve sparked some nerves that many Americans have been feeling about the disproportionate bonuses of corporate CEOs are recieving. Especially if they slash thousands of workers from the payroll citing financial reasons, then are awarded $20-30 million dollar bonuses in cash and stock. That doesn’t happen in other countries–and it shouldn’t be happening here. I think this movement will be making its voice heard...

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Portraits of Protest – Occupy Oakland General Strike

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Portraits of Protest – Occupy Oakland General Strike

You never know what people are going to like. I was crossing the newsroom where there was a news meeting going on and one of the managers said, “We really liked the pictures you got at the protest yesterday.” At first I thought he was talking about the stories that I shot with KCRA reporter Mallory Hoff at the Occupy Oakland protest in downtown Oakland yesterday (Wednesday, November 2, 2011). Then he said he was talking about the snapshots I’d taken and sent back. Someone else asked me what camera I was using because they were so cool looking....

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Walking Philadelphia–A Photographer On Vacation

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Walking Philadelphia–A Photographer On Vacation

This is my first effort at posting a photo gallery or slideshow, so please be tolerant. I’ll probably have to try this a couple times till I can get it right — or, at least, to fake it decently. Bonnie and I just returned from a visit to Philadelphia where her daughter Lori Foxworth (star of our film Nightbeats) and our grandson Sam now live. They have a five year old golden retriever named Shelby, who needs to be walked a couple times a day. If I’m visiting somewhere and there’s a dog, you can almost bet money that...

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iPhone At War – New York Times Photo Essay Shot Using Hipstamatic

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iPhone At War – New York Times Photo Essay Shot Using Hipstamatic

There has been a controversy roiling in the professional photojournalism world over the past months about a New York Times war correspondent who took a number of photos while on assignment with an iPhone using the Hipstamatic photo app rather than using his regular Nikon. Click on this link to see the New York Times photo essay shot on an iPhone using the Hipstamatic photo app. Personally, I don’t agree with the naysayers. I like the photos and think they present the war in a more snapshot, everyday style, while still being highly artistic and documentary. Sony XDCAM, JVC...

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Retro Spring – Time For A Little Color

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Retro Spring – Time For A Little Color

Felt it was time to break out of the oppressive shackles of black & white and embrace the vibrance of spring. Shot these with the Retro Camera app on my Android. Think they look like something from and old Russian film from the Sixties. Snapped while out walking “the kids” — Ava & Alex — around the neighborhood here in Hollywood Park in Sacramento after work the other night.

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Retro Spring

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Retro Spring

Amazing. Only a week ago I was out in a KCRA live truck doing wall-to-wall coverage of the storm that was hitting us from the Pacific and how rising waters in the rivers were creating levee concerns. All I could think about was how much I was looking forward to taking some vacation and getting away to a desert with no water and not clouds. It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime. Don’t I look happy about it? Photos taken with Android smart phone using the Retro Camera app.

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KCRA Cameramen Getting Retro

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KCRA Cameramen Getting Retro

Mike Rhinehart is the level-headed chief photographer of the KCRA-TV news photography department. His California cool is the quietly efficient temperament that keeps a collection of totally different artistic and technical cogs and wheels working together like a smooth-running machine. (Wordy analogy for all the news cameramen.) Mike has of late been touring sister Hearst Corporation TV stations introducing the news staffs to the Next Gen digital news systems that I’ve written about in past blogs. So I was really surprised when in past weeks he stopped me to tell me that he’d been following my blog posts about...

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Android Winter – Placerville Back Road

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Android Winter – Placerville Back Road

It seems like this site is rapidly turning into a Retro Camera photo gallery. I just find that cameras and photography in all of their forms (film, video, digital, motion, HD, lo-res, etc.) is so exhilarating and stimulating. Anything that stimulates the creative urge is good. And if it turns out good then why leave it isolated to just your laptop photo library. Post it, show it, and maybe it will trigger some gray cells in somebody else to start looking a little closer at the world around them and take out their phone and snap a picture. Working...

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