Wallace Koopmans Artlog

What does imprinting the date on a film picture have to do with taking pictures with cell phones you may ask and I just assumed you would? Well it illustrates in an orange numerical glow that taking and having a photo means different things to different people. Some might recoil from the notion that their image of a beautiful flower was marred by something so intrusive while another might think didn’t the flowers look nice that year. It’s the same with cell phone pictures some might think why would I want to use an inferior medium to record this moment where someone else might think I’m just glad to have a fragment of this moment that I can remember and share. As technology moves forward the quality of the captured image (I’m not talking art here) has been improving so that there becomes less and less of a compromise in choosing to use a cell phone to record moments. It is after all the camera that many already have with them. Most pictures are taken with the intent of sharing an experience or affirming our existence not to create some deep meaning image that will alter the world, so go ahead and turn the date stamp on that old film camera and add that Instagram filter to that shot, you know you want to.

This is the second part of a single outing where I shot with my new Pentax K-3 giving it a good challenging test in subdued light.  The first part can be found here K-3 Sample photos

My mistake its the Big Mini, a great little camera that fits neatly into a camera bag owing to its flat sides without any protuberances when turned off (I had to add that last part when I realized the picture I took of it had it’s lens sticking out). And it’s that lens that makes this camera one to have. I haven’t been disappointed yet when using this camera the exposures have been right on and the image quality great.  More Konica Big Mini

This painting has been sitting waiting to be finished for far longer than I care to admit.  Now that its done I want to move on to something new and what currently interests me.  I have the canvas, I have the paint and I have the image in my mind, time is what I need.

This particular painting is part of an ongoing series of images of cameras and film that I have been doing.  It began with “Made in Occupied Japan” which was included in the first Fraser Valley Biennale and from time to time since I have done a painting that fits in the series.  Yes I realize in posting these, I am photographing paintings of things that relate to taking photographs that I sometimes use for paintings, but thank you for pointing that out.