Author: the_abecedarian

• One More Blog: Week of 02/16/2025

  Banner image by bingboys @rjmkdn in the gallery thread “Days in the rockies“

  This week, we start indoors with a three-quarter studio portrait, then head outside for some snowy fun, then run back inside for some hot chocolate and zine sequencing. I went walking on the beach to take pics recently when it was around 5° F / -20° C outside and the few other beachgoers gave me the nod, like “I see you too are a weirdo cold enjoyer.” I’m actually a cozytimes creature almost always, but I bundled up and actually had a great time. Am I changing???!?

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  Gallery Gems

  

  It’s true: I’m a sucker for Taury’s portraits. But look at what this one has got goin’ on: carefully-shaped soft lighting highlights the center of the model’s face down to the zipper on his top, falling away quickly on the visible shoulder and past the initial strands of hair around his face. The model is posed with his head centered, but his shoulders slightly canted, avoiding too much rigidity, favoring the strong jawline, and mirroring the sweep of the hair. A more serious, refined “blue steel” look plus the eyebrow cut, geometric tattoo, and necklace give it some personality.

  Taury’s IG

  

  Emme has been making great work with model @outdoor.eve — this is just one shot from a series she made with her in and around a classic van. I chose this, the most pulled-back shot, because it feels like a real moment: with the snow gently falling, the driver has pulled over to sit on the hood and enjoy the quiet scene. The composition, too, works well: the stripes along the van lead the eye along it and to the model, who wears matching colors. The background is snow-faded white, causing the buff and blue of the van and model to pop out from it.

  Emme’s Website

  

  Speaking of stories rendered in the composition, bingboys’ incredible framing does exactly that, with a skier heading downhill in the foreground, the trails heading back up through the trees in the midground, and the mountain rising in the background. We see the journey ahead, we surmise the distance already traveled, and we get a sense of the amount of light that may be left to the lone skier. To me, this image is about perseverance and the beauty of the journey.

  bingboys’ IG

  

  As for perseverance, sequencing images for a zine is in exercise in that for sure. Join sheorun and some other server folks who volunteered some time and attention, in discussing how to sequence the images selected for inclusion in this zine documenting the construction of a building for which sheorun was the architect. No fair having multiple talents and showing us all up!

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  Community News

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  The Liquid Challenge is back! Do you have too many cameras? too many lenses? Are you constantly browsing eBay and FB marketplace ready to buy a camera you’ll never use? Then this is the challenge for you! You’ll be tasked with not buying anything for a year. Lots of fun and shenanigans will be had. Hit the link below to sign up!

  Challenge Thread

  

  Are you on Bluesky? Then we want you! Are you thinking about joining Bluesky? Hit this link to get the One More Stop starter pack. When you use this starter pack you will be able to follow all of the OMS members that are on Bluesky with one click. If you’re on Bluesky and want to be included in this list, message Ezo to be added!

  OMS Starter Pack

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  And that is all the stuff in here today! If you’re experiencing winter in your region right now, try to get out in it to shoot. My secret? layering. Baselayer tops, bottoms, glove liners, etc; insulating midlayers; and wind/weather-blocking outers, preferably with ventilation options. They’ve gotta be on sale soon, so pick up some deals and be ready for next year at least, if you don’t end up with another snowfall this season.

  Love,

  the_abecedarian

  the_abecedarian’s Pixelfed

  2025.02.25

• One More Blog: Week of 01/05/2025

  Banner image by Hosssu

  @jamirop

  Yeah, so we took an impromptu holiday break. What, do we work for you or somethin’? ( ˘ ³˘)♥ It’s the_abecedarian here again in the year of our blog, 2025. Today we’re embracing landscapes, mallscapes, and fairground-scapes. It’s a big world out there and, as we all know, it’s important to capture as many miles as physically possible in a single photo frame. Or whatever landscape photographers value aesthetically I have no idea lol.

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  Gallery Gems

  

  Hosssu starts us on our journey with a lovely minimalist look at Finland. The river gives us a starting point until it passes the forest edge to disappear into the fog and around a bend, which connects up nicely to a distant treeline. The combination of the high-key exposure, fog, and overcast sky really gives this shot an atmosphere of bright, frigid beauty.

  @jamirop

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  And here is the inverse! Myshra gives us a dark, grainy minimalism, as a few sunrays punch through the cloudy sky to illuminate a distant river. The barely-distinct layers of mountains, the textured sky, and the gentle sun-glow are beautifully set off by the shadows taking up most of the frame. From our dark overlook, the distant glow of the horizon offers us a destination.

  @myshra

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  Okay that was fun but let’s go inside for a sec. Inside a dead mall! The room itself is almost ceremonial in layout: two light panels (or skylights?) illuminate a shaped, two-tiered pool with a few steps down into it, like a ritual bath. The hallways leading to this point are lined with ex-stores that imitate an important street in a small city. The stripped-bare mall aesthetics brings to mind a combination of the backrooms and — stay with me here — the quiet stone side streets of Siena, Italy. The element that makes it for me, though, is the sign saying “Re-Discover Northwest Mall Food Court”, because that’s exactly what we’re doing — rediscovering the space in a totally different context than intended.

  @abandoned_houston

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  But we’re ending on a more vibrant note! No more silent places, we want movement, rides, and people! The composition here breaks the “rules” in an interesting way: while it’s generally frowned-upon to let your frame be bisected by a pole or other element, this image is actually cut up by the poles, the railing, the light strips on the ride’s roof and central core, and the arms holding the seats. The effect is like a mosaic and it is enhanced by the placement of the people cleanly and strictly into each segment. The railing leads the eye through the image to tie it all together.

  @another@eh.fauxtographer.ca

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  Community Collaborations

  Collage College

  Managed by Samgerers

  

  It doesn’t take much to attend collage college. Make ’em, discuss ’em, appreciate ’em! Collage images on a device or with paper & scissors, with your own images or with others’, whatever works! No deadlines, no pressure, no worries, just fun times mashin’ up images together.

  Collage College

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  So yeah, it turns out there is still art in 2025. Even in this economy! And we all got to experience it asynchronously together. I think that’s special! Can’t wait to do it again soon.

  (^0^)/~~catch ya later!
  the_abecedarian

  Check out my website for more of my work!

  the_abecedarian’s Website

  2025.01.13

• One More Blog: Week of 12/9/24

  Banner image by Myshra

  @myshra

  It’s beginning to look a lot like… One More Blog’s latest post! This week, we have an eerie house, two holiday doggos, split film experimentation, a harsh landscape, and the mystery of the hung-up shoes. I’m the_abecedarian and I will once again be presenting to you some gems from our gallery, but all the while it is really you who are the gem, dear reader, for being here.

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  Gallery Gems

  

  The quality of light can do so much to set the vibe of a shot. Something about bigg dogg’s processing here makes the side of the house almost look like a movie set, as if you could walk around it and see it was only a facade. Pair that with the heavy clouds, the fog, and odd yellow light coming in from off-camera, and I can’t shake the feeling that something eerie is going on, out in the middle of nowhere.

  @ahayek_photography

  

  But wait, ’tis not the season for eerie!* We did that a couple months ago already. Luckily, AON gifts us this lovely portrait of two doggos in front of the tree. Pet portraiture is not easy and he managed a perfect moment in which one looks squarely into the camera while the other glances over to him. The black-and-white look gives the image a timeless quality and allows their gentle personalities to shine. Though I bet they immediately returned to being chaotic after this shot lol.

  *’tis always the season for eerie don’t @ me

  @aon.photos

  

  Davesunday teaches us to embrace the entirety of the film, spocket holes and all, while ignoring its limitations. Overlapping a strip of color 135 film with a strip of black and white 135 film, to get a double-wide image splits the resulting image vertically and places it in the context of the medium used to capture it. His choice of subject, a grave in memoriam of family pets, now split into half-color and half-monochrome, seems to me to say something about memory or our inability to hold onto permanence. Or maybe he just ran out of 120 film? Points for experimentation either way.

  “Final Project for my Photo Class” gallery thread

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  Usually cronched-up HP5 is something you see in street photography, but bingboys uses it to give this vertical landscape a touch of harshness that shows a side of autumn that is not sugary, seasonal coffee drinks; “rules for fall” signs; and apple picking — emphasizing the cold and making the land seem barren. Yet, the journey implied here by the path in the foreground, the small bits of land sticking into the river and the hint of distant mountains in the fog still feels doable, if only we have the heart for it.

  @rjmkdn

  

  There are many theories about what hanging shoes up (on power lines or elsewhere) means. Whether it is a memorial to locals who have passed away or just teens messing around, it definitely acts as a statement of presence, that we are here. I think the context of having that in a non-place like a rail bridge, paired with the harshness of the glowing, blown-out highlights, gives it a lot of punch.

  @destuefer

  Community Collaborations

  OMS Winter Printers

  Managed by Aidan

  Look, maybe you do like your sugary, seasonal coffee drinks; put up your rules for fall signs; and are sitting on a load of apples you’ve already picked. We love it — being cozy in the winter is an absolute vibe! So why not stay in, put your favorite fuzzy slippers, and make some prints instead?

  Join up anytime, hop into moderated biweekly discussions for feedback or appreciation, and most importantly make actual images you can hold in your hands and put in your portfolio.

  OMS Winter Printers

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  Thanks for checking out some cool art with me! If you hunger for more, get over to their galleries, socials, and websites. Wishing you inspiration and creativity for the new year.

  Yours always,
  the_abecedarian

  Please take a look at my website for more of my work!

  the_abecedarian’s Website

  2024.12.16

• One More Blog: Week of 11/3/2024

  Emre T.’s Instagram

  It’s me, the_abecedarian and for reasons that are a complete mystery, I was drawn in by photos of disobedience and rulebreaking this week. We’re starting off with a dumpster fire (lol), some wicked watersports, blurry ‘n’ grainy birds, a moon- and aurora-lit nightscape, and a sharp ‘n’ berry-grabbing bird, all of which I have processed through my psyche to have symbolic meaning that you can vibe with or totally disregard.

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  Gallery Gems

  

  Colten.photo captures the joy in disobedience in vivid color. The diorama is a masterclass in using complementary colors to get a visual pop that can’t be ignored. The careful use of depth of field lets you see the whole scene, but keeps the focus on the subject. It’s not just the fact that a dumpster fire was set, it’s the effect that doing so had upon the subject that is depicted here.

  Colten.Photo’s Instagram

  

  Maybe you’re more of a water-based rulebreaker? Well, SuperIrish has you covered. Here, the rules are explicit and foregrounded while the kitesurfer (I think?) zooms by in the background. For me, it’s a reminder that, whatever limits the powers that be may impose on us, it doesn’t mean we have to respect them.

  SuperIrish’s Instagram

  

  Anxiety over what ominous, shadowy groups may be up to is unfortunately a feature of our age. Owl Eye’s choice of high-contrast, black and white and Daido Moriyama-style are, bure, boke (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus) set the mood and bring our eye to the birds in the center of the frame, while the edge of the rearview mirror separates us from them physically.

  Owl Eye’s Instagram

  

  Dave M’s composition here makes the moon the subject, with a subtle treeline for context, a bit of aurora providing an ethereal note, and the barest reflection of water at the bottom of the frame. Despite the thread title, I take the moon in this shot as a symbol of hope. It is a light in the darkness, a means of navigation, an ideal that is only faintly reflected on the planet below.

  Dave M’s Website

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  Community Collaborations

  The OMS Bird Club

  Managed by Ezo

  

  Okay, look I’m sorry for the bird slander earlier. Here’s a cute li’l sparrow eating a blackberry! We are treated to an incredible composition from Siftu: the berry in the beak is placed at the center, with the bird reaching forward and the branch reaching out to meet it, all against a painterly, out-of-focus background. If it’s time to get ready for a long winter, let us focus on these moments of abundance to see us through.

  The OMS Bird Club

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  Thank you for being in my feels with me this week and for checking out the latest and greatest from these talented artists. Be sure to click through the gallery links and their social/website links to see more from the series presented. There is a lot more to see!

  One More Stop Discord

  Be with your community and build solidarity,

  the_abecedarian
  

  Please take a look at my website for more of my work!

  the_abecedarian’s Website

  2024.11.10

• One More Blog: Week of September 29, 2024

  Server banner image posted by Neutrinissimo in the gallery thread Some EDC Bronica shots

  I am your humble host, the_abecedarian, and you can check out my work by clicking that link or checking out Youtuber Dan Mars’ new video featuring a guest roll I sent in!

  This week I’ll be bouncing photons off your retinas, stimulating your cortexes, and ultimately causing you to slap your knee and exclaim “hot damn!” This week’s light particles-slash-rays come in the form of an iconic protest moment, a subtle portrait, abstract symmetry, misty nature, and sunny americana. Plus, I’ll shout out a collaboration thread with a shot that has a whole cat in it!

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  Gallery Gems

  

  Despite the very understated title, Gary Indiana gives us some iconic shots from recent protests in solidarity with the Palestinian people. This shot in particular depicts a perfect moment: the speaker is in a moment of fiery focus; her fellow speakers or supporters in turn look out into the (implied) audience or directly into the camera with a determined gaze; and even the sound grip, holding up the loudspeakers, is clearly in a moment of listening and engagement. The four subjects are marked by their hijabs and keffiyehs, then subtly framed by the truck bed in which they stand, the trees in the background, and the media in the corner.

  Gary Indiana on IG

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  You might want to view this one indoors, because Taury only allows you juuuuust enough light to see by in this gentle, ethereal portrait. The highlight on the subject’s face is achieved with a soft light, yet one that still produces a bit of shine and three-dimensionality. All the rest is merely sketched out in silhouette, with a hint of detail in the folds of the shirt, leading me to feel as though seeing even this much is a rare privilege.

  Taury on IG

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  Okay, okay, look I pulled some strings and got you some more light. NimbleDave uses it to create symmetry and positive/negative inversion to take a simple subject and elevate it. His choice of partially-discolored leaves — are they in the middle of turning red? Merely stained? — and a lightly-textured background keep this image from veering too much into abstraction and pure linework, without breaking the minimalism. The arrangement of the leaves gives the image some dynamism, despite the lack of movement.

  NimbleDave on IG

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  Ohhh you wanted the leaves to be outside. So demanding! Well, good thing that Mymmy was here to provide this mist-erious morning shot for us. It feels almost as if we are witnessing a new world being created, starting with the first few trees, the first bit of water and earth, the first gleam of light. Click the gallery link above and the instagram link below for more shots of this new world!

  Mymmy’s IG

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  Mist? darkness? what are we doin’ here? — this is photography and we want to see things. Full afternoon sun beats down on an electric (or motorized?) bike carrying a red-shirted, black-helmeted rider in faded jeans on a wide, empty main street. In the background, a kitchy carpet store claims to “beat them all” in gigantic text. It’s a recent shot that feels like an echo of mid-century americana.

  tominabox1 on IG

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  Community Collaborations

  Alt Process & Wet Plate

  Managed by Lithe

  

  The Alt Process & Wet Plate collaboration thread gains another new, talented member in Wolf of 1918. He specializes in tintype portraits, especially of American Civil War reenactors, like this one. Managing a heartfelt portrait on a difficult photographic process and managing to get the cat to look at the camera? Now that is a miracle. Click through to the thread to read the heartfelt note the subject wrote as a thank you for the portrait of him with his best pal.

  Wolf of 1918’s Website

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  Have an idea for a great new collaboration?

  We’re always taking suggestions!

  Make a post in the General Chat and tag in a Curator or Trustee with your idea and join the growing group of curators at One More Stop who keep the community humming along. We look forward to hearing from you!

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  That’s it for this week! Some parting wisdom: print your images. That hard drive will eventually die, the cloud will eventually glitch out, your phone will eventually be lost. Make books and prints, send some to friends, and put them up in your place. Also, join the discord.

  One More Stop Discord

  2024.10.07

• One More Blog: Week of 08/25/2024

  Davesunday’s Gallery

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  Whoa, no way!

  It is already time for another installment of One More Blog! I’m the_abecedarian and I’ll be your host, handler, and hand-holder during this little romp through the One More Stop photographic universe.

  This week, we take deliciously limited hardware into some of the harshest conditions known to photographers, then we analyze a shot using the collective noun for a group of ibises, ponder a simultaneously ordered and chaotic reflection of the world, and get started with some zinemaking!

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  Gallery Gems

  

  Concert photography: most people, when they hear those two words, think “okay I need dynamic range, high-ISO performance, color correction, denoising, and a fancy-schmancy lens”. Devanopolis, eyes glinting with mischief and glee, said “8 BITS BAYBEE LET’S GOOOO”. But seriously, the quality achieved here is more like a portrait from a lovingly-crafted game than what anyone would expect a Gameboy Camera could capture. Rich detail, layers of shadow and light, and classic composition deliver the best of the GBC’s retro-digital impressionism

  After you check out the gallery thread, head over to devanopolis’ website for more:

  Devanopolis’ Website

  

  Sheorun pushed the Holga beyond the limits we all thought it had by using it for star trails, of all things. I am reminded of the early days of astronomy, in which telescopes were limited, crude, and unsharp — some of humanity’s greatest minds used the observations made with such tools to provide our first theories of our place in the universe. I guess the lesson is, when you think you (or the Holga, or anything really) has a fixed place in the universe, sometimes, if you look hard enough, you can blow those assumptions to bits.

  You can find more of Sheorun’s work below:

  sheorun’s website

  

  After an entirely cursory internet search, the most commonly-cited collective noun for a group of Ibises is “congregation”. Does this nearly-flat, two-dimensional scene in which a group of White Ibises are caught in various poses call back to medieval religious art? Are we, viewing them, now in congregation with them? Is it odd that this congregation is arranged on a vertical plane, where ours are generally arranged on a horizontal one?

  Ask yourself these questions are you check out more of Kenberry_Krunch’s work:

  @Kenberry_Krunch on Instagram

  

  On the topic of ordering and arrangement, the reflective window in Dan Mars’ photo here at first seems to rationalize the world into identically-sized and -spaced squares. But, in doing so, this attempt at order ends up distorting the actual image it should be reflecting. A child stares closely at one of the squares, possibly attempting to make sense of it or possibly attempting to see through it. Should he lean in to look harder, step back to get a fuller picture, or turn around and face the world as it is, instead of the reflection?

  Dan Mars’ Youtube Channel

  

  Okay, yes, all this heady stuff is too much. Let’s get down to brass tacks, let’s get our hands on something we can make and touch. Emme has been taking on the difficult task of putting together her first zine: making selections, editing images, sequencing, working on covers, writing body text, and generally trying to convey something of her recent study-abroad experience in Europe. She has made incredible progress and expects to have it finished and ready for the world in September. Read through the thread to learn about this process, see how she gets the tough decisions made, and puts together a banger of a zine.

  Keep an eye out for where we went last fall and the rest of her work on Instagram:

  @emme_dumas on Instagram

  Community Collaborations

  The Cinema Club

  

  As a community of visual artists, we have incredible respect for a talented cinematographer and are amazed at how top-tier acting and direction bring the shots to life. In The Cinema Club, we talk films, post favorites, discover new delights, and post (optional) film assignments to watch. Join us if you’re an aspiring or established cinephile, or if you just want to talk movies for a bit!

  The Cinema Club

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  So much fascinating stuff this week! I hope you found a bit of inspiration and are just a bit more likely to challenge the expectations of what you can achieve artistically, if you have an artistic practice. But also: no pressure! You can just enjoy some cool work, vibe, and keep an eye out for the next installment. I know I will. ღ(◔ڼ◔ღ)ミ

  Let your imagination take you,

  the_abecedarian

  2024.09.02

• One More Blog: Week of 7/7/2024

  I’m the_abecedarian, this is One More Blog, and today we blast your eyeballs with some hot pink heat and then gently cool them down to your particular standard body temperature with black and white therapy. We have a huge mix of styles and subjects this week; be sure to click through to see the rest of the artists’ work!

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  Gallery Gems

  

  Pink! So pink, it’s nearly monochrome. This week’s banner image is a simple, domestic scene, but one that makes the tiny details stand out: the reflection, the cloth on the stool, the wallpaper… it is both quiet and striking at the same time.

  Willow Sheepster’s Website

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  Stuck out in the hot sun, the guard takes shelter in the meager shadow of an empty advertisement frame. The tan tiles evoke a landscape of cracked, dry earth or sand. The large empty spaces between the sparse bits of furniture seem to take an eternity to cross. Our thirsty eyeballs drift upward, toward the striking contrast of the cool water only to be held back by the order: “DO NOT CROSS THE RED LINE”.

  Tominabox1’s Instagram

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  Sometimes an image can reveal something essential about the subject’s nature. This image reveals just how amped up that doggo gets when it sees another dog, a squirrel, a person, or anything else of interest pass by. Dawson Leary achieves beautiful framing of the subject between the curtains, the siding, and those completely devastated shades. The shades further serve to break up the regular angles and straight lines present in the rest of the image.

  Dawson Leary’s Website

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  While there are tons of photos of jetties and docks, Mymmy here brings us a rarer, almost subverted version of the image. The dock somehow glows and undulates against a dark, smooth sea. The clouds seem to zoom off into the top right-hand quarter of the frame, drawing the eye to a point in tension with the focal point at the end of the dock. The longer you look, the more there is to it.

  Mymmy’s Instagram

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  Here, Emillio continues his beautiful series documenting the cultural dress of his models. Here, Nameera takes on a formal, almost archaic three-quarter pose, but sits outside the studio, contextualized against the curved shapes of the railing supports. Notice the diagonal of the saree matching the diagonals of the bracelets and contrasting against the other details of Nameera’s outfit.

  Emillio’s Instagram

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  Working with dancers, performers, contortionists, and performance artists of all kinds can be incredibly fruitful for a photographer. Here, Emre works with Sude İnce, who performs an exhibition called Yuva (or “home” in English) and adds his own artistic vision to it. The light and movement in the scene are rendered in a gestural, almost calligraphic way, with Sude appearing almost as a written letter or character on an illuminated manuscript.

  Emre T.’s Instagram

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  Community Collaborations

  Holga vs. Diana

  Managed by Ezo and Hot Pink Bulb

  

  The battle for plastic supremacy continues! Here, eeenmachine takes on Daido-esque levels of grain, blur, and contrast, but carefully maintains the coherence of the image. This impressionistic style negates any technical weaknesses of the camera to provide us with the essence of the scene, rather than a clinical documentation of it.

  Collaboration Thread

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  And that wraps up our blog for the week! Be sure to shake out any film grain that got on you from that last one before you go back inside — it’s like glitter: once it gets in, you’ll never be fully rid of it. Big thanks to all the contributors this week and to you for reading.

  One More Stop Discord

  ask questions, challenge yourself, take pics!
  the_abecedarian

  2024.07.15

• One More Blog: Week of 06/10/2024

  Happy Sunday and happy Father’s Day to all who celebrate it. It’s your favorite visual-junkie-turned-art-crit-nerd, the_abecedarian, here to entice you into another eyeball experience. Today is for the technique-freaks: we’ve got double-exposures, wet plate, false color, macro, and 2-bit digital delights for you. Forward!

  Banner image by Sheorun.

  Sheorun’s website

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  Gallery Gems

  

  This multiple-exposure shot is more than just two images, one atop the other. It has a kind of fullness and cutout effect that feels like a collage, while maintaining a strong composition. This comes from the shadow-copy of the building itself providing the subject with the strongest contrast, the angular lines coming off of the sides leading toward the center, and the tree-clouds combination above giving it an almost holy appearance.

  Dave M’s Website

  

  Wet plate collodion is a very early photographic process that, on top of photographic experience, requires long practice, chemistry knowledge, and the ability to work in the limited time available while the plate is still wet. Lithe’s dedication to his craft is evident in his clean, beautifully-exposed and -developed plates. Definitely look for his work in the server and on his instagram, below.

  Lithe’s Instagram

  

  Misty mountains, chonky grain, and an alien color palette come together to highlight each layer of this composition in a dramatic way. Once again, Lomo Purple blows through my biases and gives an already atmospheric shot a little something extra. Check out the rest of that gallery for more mountain magic.

  Ben’s Instagram

  

  Macro bugs: apparently, something I’m into now. Mymmy pulled out some great shots on his first-ish day of doing it! I love the fact that the ant here is contextualized in its habitat, rather than having its every micro-detail fill the frame; it’s a bit like an environmental portrait. Get out into the forest and find yourselves some nature buddies!

  Mymmy’s Instagram

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  Community Collaborations

  Alt Process & Wet Plate

  Managed by Lithe

  

  Not satisfied with merely ogling the wet plate shots in the galleries? Want to make your own plates or share your alternative process work? Well, put your chemicals where your mouth is and get into this collaboration thread. Drarm, Lithe, and others show off their work, iterate on their processes, and trade tips to get incredible results. All processes welcome!

  Alt Process & Wet Plate Thread

  2-Bit Clubhouse

  Managed by eeenmachine

  

  But maybe you don’t want to deal with 150 year-old cameras, ventilation hoods, and endless pairs of chem-safe gloves. Maybe you want a vintage feel, but one that was state-of-the-art within living memory. The 2-Bit Clubhouse is a place where you can learn about using Gameboy Cameras, various commercial or 3D-printed accessories for them, see the amazing work by Devanopolis and others, and post your own!

  2-Bit Clubhouse Thread

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  A huge thanks to the photographers featured today. It is so inspiring to see so many techniques, perspectives, and processes that are different from my own. I need to remember, and maybe you do too, that photography is a buffet, so we should be curious and try whatever catches our eye. Peace!

  One More Stop Discord

  (づ ◕‿◕ )づ Try some weird stuff today (づ ◕‿◕ )づ
  the_abecedarian

  Please take a look at my website for more of my work!

  the_abecedarian’s website

  2024.06.17

• One More Blog: Week of 5/5/2024

  Heyo! It’s me, the_abecedarian, back with more bangers from the OMS discord. Today we have tiger spirits, farmland furrows, guys being dudes, bubble POP, and dusky lakeside feels. Our banner image today comes from user Elle-Oat, from her gallery “Best Feeling in Photography”.

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  Gallery Gems

  

  I admit I always kinda dismissed Lomochrome Purple as a gimmicky film. Sometimes the gimmick works amazingly well — just look at how that tiger pops! Minhea uses it to amazing effect in a shot that simultaneously feels dreamlike and a bit threatening. Are we having a dream, a nightmare, or a meeting with a Tiger spirit? Beautiful stuff.

  Mihnea’s Instagram

  

  Heinz brings us a very satisfying landscape that also feels just a bit maximalist: many rows in the earth lead around the trees to scattered clouds that busy the sky. The transition from the midtones in the ground to the highlights in the sky, framed by a thin line of shadows in the treeline, creates a perfect contrast between the lower and upper portions of the frame.

  Heinz’s Website

  

  Pan has had a wonderful ongoing project documenting a local rugby team. The players have an incredible camaraderie, through the wins and losses, that Pan captures on bus rides, on the field, and everywhere they go. This shot shows the playful, yet caring bond the team members have, with a strong composition that brings the viewer close to feel like they’re a part of a moment of joy.

  Pan’s Instagram

  

  New server member G1TDAT brings us an impressive debut with the exact moment that a kid pops a giant bubble. If you look closely, shreds of the popping bubble are still visible! The overexposed sidewalk gives the day a sunny glow and the lack of passerby in the frame makes this moment seem like it’s just for the bubble maker and the bubble popper.

  G1TDAT’s Website

  

  Another example in which the effect of the film elevates the image. Here, alatartheblue leans into the unknown imperfections of long-expired film to achieve an impressionistic style. The limited color palette creates a soft, dusky feeling — I can almost hear the crickets and soft lapping of water on the shore.

  alatartheblue’s Pixelfed

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  Community Collaborations

  Right in Camera

  Managed by Lunar

  

  The Right in Camera collab is going strong! Here, we eschew post-processing and do our best to get the shot just right at the moment of capture. Ben uses a highly cinematic crop, 2.35:1, to give a new shape and a bit of stretch to the frame in which power lines coming off of a light pole. It gives me a sense of a cracked pane of glass. This collab ends June 10th, so keep those submissions coming.

  Ben’s Instagram

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  Thanks again to all the photographers here for their beautiful work. Be sure to check out their galleries and all the collaborations that server members are running!

  One More Stop Discord

  Wishing you growth and meaning in your artistic practice,
  the_abecedarian

  Please take a look at my website for more of my work!

  the_abecedarian’s Website

  2024.05.13

• One More Blog: Week of 3/10/24

  Hello! I’m the_abecedarian and I do art with cameras and film in the Chicago area. I work mainly in street photos and portraits, with an ongoing series about Muay Thai boxers when I can attend a match. I love linking up with the photo community, so come find me in the discord or get in touch via the email on my website.

  This week’s banner photo provides us with a peaceful, glowy forest vibe. Take a moment to meditate on that neverending quiet afternoon captured on film. Further on, there’s a bird of prey, street maximalism, a freaky mannequin head, and a beachy panorama. The One More Stop discord showcases an incredible diversity of styles and subjects, which lets me be an eclectic little magpie and bring back all sorts of shiny things to the blog for your enjoyment.

  Also look for the Poke-a-Pinhole contest in the collaborations section, below.

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  Gallery Gems

  

  What captivates me about this photo is not just that it’s a tack-sharp photo of a beautiful Red-Shouldered Hawk in flight against an empty void background. It is also the position of the hawk in the frame — at an angle and heading that imply that the bird is overhead, looking down at the viewer with one scanning eye. The composition feels almost like it was designed for the hawk, rather than for the viewer. Definitely check out the rest of the birds in siftu’s gallery.

  siftu’s website

  

  Minimalism is everywhere, so it’s really refreshing to see a great maximalist project come together. Maximalists have an extremely tough job in creating an image that is rich, intense, made of many elements, and yet still comprehensible. Kelu Abstract’s shots do this by blending double exposures of blurred street scenes with street ads and signs. I’ve chosen what I think is the most ambitious one here, in which an ad’s image is overlaid on the street scene — the other images use text from an ad or street sign as their overlay. The composition here creates a triangle of points of interest for the viewer: the big ad face, the smaller ad face, and the passerby with the shopping bags. I love how this is framed by the two other, heavily blurred passers-by and the beige stone of the building’s corner.

  @kelu_filmshooter

  

  Sometimes photography isn’t about composition so much as it is about documenting the weird stuff you find in the world. Is this just a gothed-out, grimacing mannequin head meant as a warning to trespassers, or is it the soul of a trespasser trapped on a plane of eternal torment? The washed-out polaroid look makes weird things just a bit weirder, as does the off-kilter framing. The window reflection almost gives the mannequin a head of curly, shoulder-length hair.

  @Royvice_

  

  This panoramic beach scene intrigues me because it both follows the so-called “rules” of composition and breaks them at the same time. It’s got leading lines for days: the horizon, the edges of the clouds, the surf, the treeline, and the line of seagulls on the sand. Expecting a rule of thirds weighting of the elements? Sorry, the sand and sky are roughly 50/50, as are the surf and the trees. Subjects, to the extent there really are any, are small and placed in the center of the frame. The dramatic sky, mirrored in the surf, makes the image for me, and the placement of the birds and humans on the sea-clouds side casts them as part of that fluid-vapor world instead of the more solid, trees-and-buildings world on the right side of the frame.

  @ahayek_photography

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  Community Collaborations

  Poke-a-Pin: Gotta Take ‘Em All!

  Managed by @ezo

  

  Get your hole-pokin’ pants on, because it’s time to make a pinhole camera! In this collab, we want you to submit your favorite pinhole photos, whether film or digital. With a submission deadline of May 15th, we’re giving you plenty of time on this one so that you can, optionally, build your own pinhole camera to shoot with. Be sure to tag your galleries with the Poke-a-pin tag! A full description is available in the Collaborations thread.

  @ezosnapshot

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  A huge thanks to everyone featured here for their amazing photos and to the tireless mods and curators who help make One More Stop an amazing place. There are lots of other great galleries, projects, collabs, and photos posted in the discord, so be sure to check them out! I’ve posted this gallery of foggy, grainy business recently, with more fun stuff to come.

  One More Stop Discord

  Do an art today!
  the_abecedarian

  Please take a look at my website for more of my work!

  the_abecedarian’s website

  2024.03.17