Author: documentaryfestival

In a recent Letter to the Editor, Ms. Carol Moore blames former President Barack Obama for the Covid-19 pandemic. If Ms. Moore has access to the internet, she will find articles that confirm that in 2014, President Obama warned that such a pandemic was a possibility. He based his assessment on Ebola and the swine… via… Continue reading Letter to the Editor: Truth trumps Trump — Daily Republic

Pablo Picasso is considered a genius of art, “the” genius of the XXth Century. Gallery owners and art collectors all called Pablo Picasso a genius. On the other hand we’ve Salvador Dalí, the man who called himself a genius, he was a genius in his own mind. Both artists were contemporary…to a certain extent…but Dalí […]… Continue reading Pablo vs Salvador — Omnia Caelum… Poetry, Art, Music

I keep saying (mostly to myself since I live alone and am quarantined from my friends) that I can’t wait to see the innovations that are sparked by these times of quarantine and social distancing. On a personal level I spent a couple of hours with my friend Yvonne recently, at a respectful 6 feet […]… Continue reading Best of the Week: Closer Through Social Distancing — The Day After

I scanned my final roll of pre-lockdown negatives a couple of days ago – a roll of expired Kodak Plus-X shot with my Yashica Mat 124G. They were all taken the day before lockdown was introduced in the UK, and I managed to get them developed by my local lab on the actual day of […]… Continue reading The last of the pre-lockdown photos — Steel City Snapper photography blog

We invited noted eleganteur and Leica M5 mom Kimmiechem2 to luxuriate in a buffet of excellence and pick our Photo Of The Week. This week’s Photo of the Week is a collection of landscape photographs by Henrik Emtkjær Hansen. Stunning in its starkness and soothing geometry, the lines from one landscape lead us to the […]… Continue reading Photo Of The Week 5/10/20 — #BelieveInFilm

I visited an abandoned bridge and forgotten cemetery on US 40 near Plainfield, Indiana. via An abandoned bridge and a forgotten cemetery — Down the Road

Another photograph I made on my final pre-lockdown roll of film today. It’s a photo I like a lot, but it’s one that, from an aesthetic perspective at least, could probably do with some editing. I’m talking primarily about the twigs at the left of the frame and the light stalks of grass at bottom-right, […]… Continue reading To edit, or not to edit? To photograph, or not to photograph? — Steel City Snapper photography blog

Car wash on instant film. via single frame: Temporary hours — Down the Road