Alhamdulillah, Allah azza wa jall, al Qawiyy, lent me some of His immeasurable, unimaginable strength over the weekend: I transformed one raised bed garden/vegetable patch into two, and moved it to a more prominent location on the other side of the yard/garden. مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ What Allah willed [has occurred]; there …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
#Polarwalk
All praise and thanks be to God, I’ve gotten involved with the Dallas Photo Walk group (not to be confused with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group). After some months interacting over Twitter and being too busy to get in on some walks, I finally had a chance to attend this year’s #Polarwalk at the Dallas …
stop. look. appreciate.
I stumbled upon a completely-disappeared post by Grant Meyer, in which talks about taking some time to stop and appreciate the landscape around him. He talks about the looky-loos that come to photograph and otherwise enjoy the landscape in spring and summer, when crops cover the rolling hills around him, and comments on the stark …
Unboxing David Allen’s ‘The Insolite’
Dave Allen’s ‘The Insolite number 0’ is among my favorite releases of #27zine. It’s a little bit bizarre, willfully obtuse, frustrating, maddening, even, and I love nearly everything about it. https://youtu.be/Se44AiS43V0
Unboxing Ivars Gravlejs ‘Useful advice for photographers’
For two years straight, Blake Andrews listed an Ivars Gravlejs book on his year end lists. It was Early Works in 2015, and the mirth continued in 2016 with Useful advice for photographers. https://youtu.be/ytFJ8A8z-vc
Al Baqarah, 284
A simple reminder, for myself first: from Surah Al Baqarah, 284. To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth. Whether you show what is within yourselves or conceal it, Allah will bring you to account for it. Then He will forgive whom He wills and punish whom He wills, …
#BIFscale #BestOf x Red Dragon review
Well, #BIFscale17 is officially over, and I, for one, am thankful to be back to straight shooting. That said, I have a bit of a backlog awaiting some processing, and I should collate some of my thoughts on the redscale process, in general, and the Ultrafine Red Dragon 100 in particular, so here we go, …