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Occasional images and a few musings from Scott Edwards
Dystopia, America part 2
February 28, 2023
Amidst client and editorial shoots, I’ve begun to capture and am now sharing some darker images that reflect somewhat darker post-modern times.
Dystopia, America part 1
February 15, 2023
Amidst client and editorial shoots, I’ve begun to capture and am now sharing some darker images that reflect somewhat darker post-modern times.
SQUARE
December 7, 2022
A fistful of images captured with the stellar Fuji GFX 100S, one modern lens (Fuji GF45 2.8) and the Mamiya 80 2.8, a medium format lens made in Japan several decades ago.
GIVE ME THE NIGHT
September 21, 2022
A few long-exposure photographs taken at night with the Mamiya Pro 80/2.8 and the Fuji GFX100s.
OLD MAN MAMIYA
September 14, 2022
The Mamiya Pro 80/2.8 is a solid performer for photographers looking for medium format lenses that are relatively inexpensive but still capable of producing beautiful images.
Vintage Bliss
February 22, 2022
Fantastic images, quickly captured on Halloween 2021.
A SHINING MOMENT
November 18, 2021
Fantastic images, quickly captured on Halloween 2021.
Halloween
November 5, 2021
Fantastic images, quickly captured on Halloween 2021.
The Lasting Value of a Portrait
October 31, 2021
What’s the value of a portrait? Scott Edwards answers that question in this beautiful photographic essay. Through words and images from a single portrait session, he argues the value is immeasurable, a living treasure.
Evening
October 15, 2021
A spontaneous walk with an old Minolta 58 1.4 lens in hand… the last two images seem more like paintings of light. The sky is a gift to everyone… constantly changing, constantly providing a record of time and season. Thanks for your time. You can find out more about me on this website. I’m Scott […]
Clear Skies
September 24, 2021
A beautiful fall day, along with some interesting buildings and lines… Architectural details and a few cracks can be found in this wonderfully colorful photo. Grand Lux Cafe is at Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd, across from the Galleria. Post Oak Boulevard in Houston houses some incredible mixed-use office and retail space. The three building […]
Hope for the Gathering Storm
September 16, 2021
I don’t really believe in coincidences. Too often it has been easy to see a purpose in randomly bumping into a friend or stranger… This is how I feel about the happy accident of being at the right place at the right time to shoot this image. Here’s a second image… taken just seconds before. […]
Enter the Biotar (1 of 2)
March 25, 2021
It is one of the most prized lens in history; a personal obsession that now takes root. PART 1 OF 2. My personal obsession began four years ago. I had jumped into professional photography with both feet, had spent hundreds of hours on the technical aspects, and was constantly reviewing thousands of images in search […]
A 1959 Leica 35 2.8 Summaron shines on
January 25, 2021
It’s not the easiest lens to use but it’s special – sharp with the old-school swirly bokeh Leica has a reputation for making special lens – and deservedly so. Ken Rockwell notes the Leica Leitz 35mm f/2.8 Summaron is “exceedingly sharp, possibly sharper than the newest 35mm f.2 ASPH and 35 f/1.4 ASPH at moderate apertures, […]
Geeking Over the Sony ZEISS 50 1.4 Planar
January 12, 2021
Designed in 1896 with Zeiss T coatings added along the way, there are few lens that match its history, versatility and stellar rendering The Zeiss Planar is a lens designed in 1896 by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss. Unbelievably, the design and Zeiss are at work in today’s world. My copy is a modern one […]
The Train Stop
September 6, 2020
Photographing children – or in this case, two children and a teenager – can be elevated or differentiated with a story or a set/location. Three sisters were my subjects. In the age of COVID-19, I suggested they and their mother first meet me at a train stop that was now seeing a fraction of the […]
Winnetka Music Festival
July 12, 2019
In three short years, the Winnetka Music Festival (Winnetka, Illinois, home to the “Home Alone” house and other points of interest) has established a reputation for great acts and a great time for all ages. Created by Winnetka natives Val Haller and Scott Myers, this year’s festival featured 60 acts performing across four stages and additional […]
Winter Wanderings
March 13, 2019
This winter has been a “doozy” as my dear old Mom used to say. Because I grew up in south Louisiana, doozy applied to other things – athletic feats, five-car pileups and report cards (mine, not my sisters’ good grades). She never used the term for subzero temperatures, bone-crushing layers of ice and snow or a […]
Magic @ 1.2: The Canon FD 55 1.2
January 4, 2019
Shooting at F-stop 1.2 is new to me. It’s a tricky proposition. With a manual lens, even trickier. Indeed, in the short bit that I’ve had the Canon FD 55 1.2, I’ve found that nailing down a portrait at 1.2 is no easy task and not for the impatient (and I’m quite used to shooting […]
Tokina Power Tower – The Tokina AT-X M100 PRO DX
September 6, 2018
I can start this article in two ways. The first way is more intelligent, given that my wife may or may not read this post. This first way would be to explain that I needed another portrait lens for one of my film cameras – the Nikon F100. There, done. I’ve only been shooting with […]
Meet the Minolta 58 1.4
April 26, 2018
Here’s one week and one lens. Purely personal work here. The location is not exotic but I’d argue the images are. People are not included (and I love to photograph people) but it’s a lovely little tribute to my late 1960s Minolta Rokkor MC 58 1.4 and to how much the weather and world shifts […]
Hope on Film
February 21, 2018
Film is just so different – the tones, the transitions from light to shadow, the grain. In January, I was driving through Hope, Arkansas, and decided why not? I stopped at the house President Bill Clinton called home during the first four years of his life, where he lived with his grandparents, not his mother […]
Give Me Film or Give Me D… D… Digital!
February 4, 2018
Film is alive. I think. Kodak Ektachrome is now back! The once popular and visually distinctive 35mm film so often seen in the pages of National Geographic was discontinued in 2013. At the time, it appeared that another death nail had been driven into the spine of analog as the Rise of the Machine and the Age […]
Light and Dreams
December 20, 2017
Light is such a huge contributor to a successful shoot… well, light and attitude. You can have great light but if the attitude isn’t there, either on the part of the subject or photographer, then any success will be measured. I once photographed a group and could feel palatable tension. The photographer’s mission is to […]
Down on the Bayou
December 11, 2017
I was down there in November for a brief moment. Louisiana, that is. Except for photographing a law firm and its members, I was largely cloistered in the house of one of my sisters, processing images until 2 am, or at the nearby PJs, drinking coffee and… processing. I was finally able to break free […]
The Old Man and the Images
October 12, 2017
My father-in-law is 94 years old. He is quite simply a photographer’s dream. He has a great face. He is kind, patient and very happy to model for me all day and night long. He lives in Houston (via a long, arduous journey from Teheran) and I live in Chicago. So when he’s under my […]
German precision? Mercedes and a 1956 Leica Summarit.
October 9, 2017
Picking up from the last post, the Leica Summarit was replaced by the Summilux line in 1961. The Leica Summilux is unquestionably one of the greatest lens ever produced with some of the most luxurious renderings ever. Ever! Of course, that luxury is expensive and my Zeiss Sony Planar 50 1.4 gives it a real […]
A Baseball Diamond, Train Tracks and a Somewhat Rare Photograph
October 8, 2017
The shadows are growing longer and sentimental thoughts seem to increase by the day. The Leica Summarit 50 1.5 fits the mood perfectly. Hi, my name is Scott. I’m a photographer, writer and fan of mixing old and new technology when it comes to photography. I want to introduce you to one of my more […]
The Fall of Minolta
October 4, 2017
Here in Chicago, the run of the colors began about 10 days ago… just a few trees began to turn orange or red and then other trees started to fall in line. I’ve been shooting – doing commercial and portrait work (and launching a new Facebook page and this new blog) – but am intent […]
The Day of the Eclipse
October 2, 2017
So, this is a one-off post but the images have some character and there’s a small surprise at the end. Small, I said. On the day of the recent eclipse, I went to Dodd Camera to return a rented Zeiss superwide lens. Then, given the Chicago neighborhood, I thought I’d park on one of those typical […]
The Kids Are Alright!
October 1, 2017
Blending a “Senior High” shoot with a “Childrens” session can be a bit of a challenge. Well, hardly children as the two young men are 18 and 16 but their sister, on the other hand, is 9 years old. With that, we met at Montrose Harbor in Chicago as the recently graduated senior enjoyed sailing […]