Old school.

These two photographs were made with a 1950’s vintage, Kodak Brownie Hawkeye. I’ll be posting images from some of the old cameras that I use because, while I’m fascinated by my pursuit of the newest gadgets to make photographs, (technology is soooo seductive), it’s made little difference to the making of a good photograph. I get caught up in the fuss about the new stuff, and I’ve had my share of nice gear to use, but the tools are in the service of a bigger mission, a good photograph is a good photograph, plain and simple. There, I’ve thrown down the gauntlet for myself, what is a good photograph you ask? That’s what this blog is for, life and the good photograph, more to come. Millions of Brownies of various models were sold around the world, it was a simple design, early models being made of cardboard, later made from Bakelite and other plastic materials. Brownie production began in 1900 with the cardboard box cameras, producing negatives 2 1/4″ by 2 1/4″ with good image quality for it’s day, and finished in 1985 as a very different camera, a 110 size cartridge camera, making negatives about the size of a fingernail with the resulting terrible image quality.