April 12, 2017

Old Michigan Avenue

Fun look back at the history of US-12 at Concentrate Ann Arbor:

Michigan Avenue has been recognized for its significance as a Historic Heritage Route. Given the fact that it’s persisted so long and been so essential to the state, it seems more than fitting to refer to this road, which spans the entire east-west length of the state, as Michigan Avenue.

US-12 has fed a life-long fascination for me, and is becoming a long-term photography project. It’s a road, and an area, rich with history.

Parts two and three are up, too.

photography, projects history, michigan, michigan ave, michigan avenue, photography, saulk trail, us-12

March 28, 2017

Obsolete Media, Photography Edition

Fun trip down photography’s memory lane at the Obsolete Media Museum.

For instance, did you know there was once a film size between 35mm and medium format? Turns out.

A classic hardware buff (ahem) could get lost in a museum like this.

(via @splorp – naturally)

Gear, photography film, history, museum, obsolete media, photography

September 9, 2016

Marvel At the Now

Marvel At The Now

Things used to be pretty ugly, and yet beautiful, in this country just a few decades ago.

How will our photographs record the history of today?

You don’t feel time passing as it happens so much, at least not visually. It’s just part of the everyday. But when you look back 10 or 20 years, my how things have changed.

This comes up when someone tags me in an old high school photo on Facebook. I look at what we were wearing, what our hairstyles were, how dated everything looks. It didn’t at the time, of course, because we were living it.

It’s a neat thought, to think that the photos we’re taking now will be marveled at by some future civilization.

(’70s photos via On Taking Pictures)

photography daily, history, photography