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Roadside Chapel, Road to San Javier

Churches of Stone

Posted on July 2, 2014October 31, 2020

Churches of Stone highlights the architectural features of six stone churches in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The fortress-like profiles, the small windows, the clustered columns, and curved doorways carved into stone highlight the remarkable fact of the stone churches’ long existence. Designed to dazzle the newly converted, the stone churches of Baja California Sur transmit a spiritual zeal which…

Merry-go-round, King School, Wisconsin

Old School

Posted on June 26, 2014October 31, 2020

We know about the past through history, memory, and relics; each of these daily refreshes our knowledge of the past. Relics are both of the past and present, and this signals their unique position. As remnants of the tangible past, relics exist as natural and physical features. In written and visual forms, history is the…

Caged Statue, Shrine Near El Cien, Highway 1, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Pinhole Photographs: Baja Missions and Roadside Shrines

Posted on January 15, 2014October 31, 2020

Pinhole Photography. The first written records of the optical properties of pinholes come from Mo Ti in China during the 5th century BC and in Aristotle’s Problems XV written in 330 BC. Dappled sunlight viewed under trees on clear days is evidence of the optical properties of pinholes. The crescent projections of the sun seen…

Viewing Lens, Spartus Camera

Experimenting with the Square Format: Using the Spartus Full-Vue With Tungsten Film

Posted on January 10, 2014October 31, 2020

Many notable photographers used twin-lens cameras: Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Lisette Model, and Diane Arbus. The first twin-lens reflex camera appeared in 1880 as a specially built camera for the Kew Observatory in England. The first production twin lens camera appeared in 1882, introduced as the Academy by the British firm, Marion and Company.  The camera,…

The Eastman Kodak Brownie Target Six-20

Experimenting with Box Cameras: Brownies at Mono Lake

Posted on December 27, 2013February 24, 2022

In 1888, the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company headed by George Eastman, introduced the Kodak camera, a wooden box “neatly covered in black leather”[1] which became the most significant event in the history of the medium since the invention of photography. The camera was loaded with a 100-exposure roll of silver gelatin film attached…

Grave of Peter Warnermaker, Downieville Cemetery

Downieville Cemetery: Portraits of Gravestones

Posted on September 16, 2013October 31, 2020

Situated at the bottom of a deep narrow canyon at the confluence of the Downie and Yuba Rivers, Downieville, California prospered from the gold taken from the fast-moving alpine rivers and streams. At the peak of the Gold Rush, about 5,000 miners worked extensive hydraulic diggings and deep rock mines in the area. Then, Downieville…

Lomo Camera

Cross Processing and the Lomo LC-A

Posted on September 8, 2013October 31, 2020

The Lomo LC-A is a wonderful little camera. With a sleek black design, and ease of use, and the unique Minitar 1 wide-angle 32mm f/2.8 lens, the Lomo LC-A inspires play and experimentation. First introduced into mass production in 1984 during the last decade of the Soviet Union, the Lomo LC-A was designed as a…

A digital Holga Camera in a freezer bag.

At Chimney Beach: Using a Freezer Bag as a Waterproof Housing

Posted on September 1, 2013October 31, 2020

Chimney Beach, a narrow band of sand on the east shore of Lake Tahoe, is accessed by a trail from Nevada Highway 28. The beach is managed by the Nevada State Parks Department and is named for the lone chimney nestled at the top of a small cove, the only structure of any kind found…

Two Chinese Pistache leaves

On Bokeh—the Red Tree

Posted on August 25, 2013October 31, 2020

Early references to the Chinese Pistache tree (Pistacia Chinensis) appear in Ernest Henry Wilson’s A Naturalist in Western China. Wilson notes that the hardwood of Chinese Pistache forms “a natural “fork” at one end and is in general use for the balanced rudder on all the larger boats.” [1]The tree is drought and insect resistant…

Stuffed Dog with friends

A Point of Historical Interest—Toys Left for Julius.

Posted on August 10, 2013November 1, 2020

About 7 miles east of Nevada City, California, and just off Highway 20 is a Point of Historical Interest, the burial site of Julius Albert Apperson, a two-year-old boy who died on May 6, 1858. In 1971, the Native Sons of the Golden West erected a monument at the site for “A pioneer who crossed…

MS Aurora on Dead End Road

Experimenting with Infrared Digital Capture

Posted on July 6, 2013November 1, 2020

Constructed in 1955, MS Aurora was the first ship wholly made in German shipyards following World War II. MS Aurora began service as a day cruiser named the MV Wappen Von Hamburg, serving the ports of Hamburg, Cuxhaven, Heligoland, and Hornum in the North Sea. Later the ship was sold to new owners who converted…

Barn in the Yuba County Rice Fields

Experimenting with a Telephoto Lens

Posted on July 4, 2013November 1, 2020

Depth of field or the area of acceptable focus within a photograph is influenced by three factors: the aperture of the lens, the subject to camera distance, and the focal length of the lens. Our expectations for photographs are that they transparently represent the subject of the photograph. Each of the three components of the…

The Kodak Vest Pocket B lens

Using the Vest Pocket Kodak as an Experimental Lens

Posted on July 2, 2013November 1, 2020

  By introducing a camera that could be taken anywhere, and used by anyone, George Eastman revolutionized photography. I recently discovered a Vest Pocket Kodak Model B,  a very popular Kodak camera manufactured from 1925-1934 [1], and began to explore experimental options with this beautifully designed camera. Touted by Kodak’s marketing as “You Don’t Carry…

Sand Spit. Lake Tahoe, California

About The Experimental Condition

Posted on June 23, 2013October 29, 2020

First launched in 2013, The Experimental Condition is dedicated to presenting new approaches to the medium of photography. Photographic experimentation, the blending of unlikely materials to produce new photographic processes and new photographic devices is a permanent feature in photography’s history. The tradition of experimentations continues into the present day with computer programs, silicon, and…

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