Happy Sunday photographers, friends, and anyone else who might have stumbled upon our blog from a strange corner of the internet, I’m Lunar and I am excited to be writing again. This week had some excellent photos and I am so happy to be sharing them with you!
Will has managed to take everything I love photographing, and did it better than I ever have. A lovely abandoned school, black and white, out of focus foreground, just love to see it. Please check out more of his work at his Instagram.
Falling between abstract and architectural photography, the colors and framing really set this photo apart. The symmetry just speaks to me, and I just can’t stop looking at it. Keep looking at more of TR’s photography at their Instagram linked below!
Lil Uzi Introvert posted this incredibly dramatic photo of the sun shining into a low fog in these valleys, and I am taken aback by the beauty. Such a gorgeous scene, that I am envious of not being able to have seen in person, but am so appreciative that it was shared with us. Lil Uzi Introvert’s Instagram has more great photography!
Small town Americana in black and white, and Dave M knocked it out of the park. It feels like something I could see down the road, but also is picturesque in an uncanny way that I cannot explain. Please see more of Dave’s lovely work at his website below.]
The Holga vs Diana challenge is wrapping up and people are getting their final rolls developed and scanned. Neutrinissimo has a strong showing for team Diana, and I think this photo shows the strengths and weaknesses of the camera, but overall is a very pleasing photo. Please take a look at the Holga vs Diana collaboration to see everyone’s final work.
I haven’t written much recently and I’ve missed it, but I am so proud of the Blog team for continuing to put out excellent work, and for the community continuing to take and post great photos. Please come take a look!
As the seasons change, and life becomes a bit busier, we at the OMS have decided to give the Blog team a bit of a rest and so this week we’re simply going to bring you a sample of all the members who posted to the OMS Gallery this past week. No words, just photos. So please sit back, take a breather and enjoy some beautiful photos. To everyone who contributed to the gallery this past week a special Thank You for sharing your works and journeys with us.
But first a quick shout out to all those who have participated in the Holga vs. Diana challenge.
Last shoutout for shooting for the Holga vs. Diana challenge before the deadline. After November 1st you should be developing and submitting! Check out more information below:
Thanks for stopping by! From all of us at One More Stop we wish you another great week in your journeys through photography and the arts. Have a wonderful time!
Welcome to another weekly edition of One More Blog. As the Northern hemisphere plunges into Autumn, we’re seeing a lot more festive Fall photos of trees changing colors. Southern hemisphere folks should be heading into a beautiful Spring, and we expect to see some wonderful flowering photos as well!
We’d love to see your work in the Gallery as well! Feel free to post individual photos throughout the day to General or Photography channels, and share a collection of your current work to the Gallery in a posting. Even if it’s just one or two photos that you’d like to share for some feedback and interaction with the community, the Gallery is a great place for that.
The General and Photography channels are fast-moving and many of our members miss postings from those channels. To make sure your works get seen by the most members, create a Gallery post so your work is secured in a specific location for many viewers to see it!
All that said, enjoy this week’s selection from the Gallery!
Gary Indiana shares a beautiful outing in the Autumn leaves in this Gallery Gem. Orange and red tones of the changing leaves and jacket blend with the greens of deciduous trees and the blues of the sky to make a very colorful palette.
Ylli takes us on a boat ride through Bruges, Belgium. Some would call it a fairy tale town. Down on the water level we see the canals in all their medieval beauty reflecting the blue hue of the sky against the muted greys and browns of the stone buildings.
In this gallery post from neilmb, the colors and atmosphere of Autumn come through with changing colors in the trees, a picnic with bread, and live music on the grass. There’s always a good reason to bring a camera along to any outing.
Heading out for shots with the Barnack, tominabox1 grabs this powerful photo of a train bridge over water on Acros film. The leading angle adds a wonder of depth to the photo, showing the tracks heading off into the great unknown.
Emme shares a set of product photos in the Autumn foliage of her new photo book, “Where We Went Last Fall.” Using recommendations from the One More Stop collective, Emme produced her own book and is promoting the project on Kickstarter. Give it a look!
G1TDAT hit the square for a few street shots. This portrait of the mustachioed man in the hoodie stands out with his powerful stare directly into the lens, and thus, into our eyes as the viewers.
Final submissions are coming in for the Holga vs. Diana challenge and Lithe is pulling out all the stops with this adaptation to large format and recreation of the moth from Silence of the Lambs. Check out the main chat for details on how Lithe accomplished this work.
That’s all for now. Please feel free to share your current works in the Gallery, and if you have any suggestions of new challenges or collaborations for the server, please share your ideas with the curator team and we can bring you on board as a curator to run the collaboration. We know you have some great ideas and we’re looking for those ideas currently. There are no bad ideas, and we can help you build a great project for the collective to compete in. Have another great week and keep making wonderful photos!
Hello and welcome to another week of One More Blog. I’m Owl Eye and I’m happy to have you all along with us this week as we run through just a fraction of the amazing work that has been submitted over the past week on One More Stop. Let’s get to it!
Lovely leading lines and crisscross patterns of blinds make for a stunning black and white photo from Dave M. This looks like the perfect place to get lost in a daydream.
Representing the sentiment that photography is in the eye of the photographer and not in the camera or gear, bingboys shares some cellphone photos that are giving some serious modern Ansel Adams vibes.
I encourage everyone reading to click the link below to Drarm’s collection of chemistry documentation by way of Ambrotypes. Haunting and raw self-portraits and process make for stunning art.
We were surprised with another stunning aurora borealis this week and Another Fauxtographer captured a wonderful, silhouetted train bridge beneath the colors of the aurora. To me this gives the feel of being at a movie theater the size of the open sky.
Once again Emre brings us fantastic photos from their explorations of the world. This week during a Biennial visit to Venice, Italy, Emre decided to capture the dream-like nature of the city.
A soft spot for me, graffiti on rusty metal. Bringing a new life to old, Patina’d metal. Geometry, color contrast, and atmosphere are making this a standout photo.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: We’re coming to a close with Ugly Beautiful Vol. 2 (Holga vs. Diana). Make sure to wrap up your shooting for Holga vs. Diana by the end of October (Oct 31, 2024). Final submissions are due by the end of November (Nov 30, 2024).
That’s all for now. Make sure to join us in the galleries and collaborations on One More Stop Discord. We’ll see you next week back here at the One More Blog!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Hi hey and howdy to the artists out there! It’s been another fantastic week at One More Stop, and there’s been a bevy of beautiful subjects paired with great technique. What you’ll see here is but a small smattering curated by me, Dave M.
Fall isn’t just full of colors; the cooler air makes morning mist more prevalent. With mist comes mystery and some exotic intrigue. neilmb caught the sun fitting right into the fork of the tree, it’s work burning away the fog to bring the day already begun. Tranquil.
Cameras and aerial vehicles have always made a great pair, at least since the advent of the airplane. If you want to know what a photographer loves, examine their photos–and it doesn’t take a long study to see the passion with the subject. This entire gallery combines vintage wings with great colors and excellent composition like you see above.
Gman1894 is new to One More Stop but certainly isn’t new. This 4×5 glass plate functions both as a period study and as an exceptional display of technical expertise. The future talking to and through the past. Looking forward to more.
A weekend spent with a Z6 in northern New Mexico produced some excellent images. As praetor said in the thread, “that turquoisey-blue feels like the state color sometimes“. And it’s true, it’s emblematic of the region–and these photos pull you right there.
Color film at night can be extremely difficult, and this is tungsten vibe done just right. The grain only adding to it overall. The image above? Reflections and parallels, one side like a rippling wind, the other a night feeling glow.
And to add another sensory layer, Panchromatic.Noise uploaded a recording of the ambient noise. You’re bound to find a favorite one here.
Even though they’re using the clearly-inferior and far-more-awful Holga camera, sheorun really made this frame. The circular mask combined with the angles and artificially-straight lines mixed in with succulants. The warm colors, the great greens. Dare I say that it couldn’t have been done better with a Diana? Yeah nah, this round to Holga. Or to sheorun, at least.
Not to be outdone by those who deign to hug their Holgas, Neutrinissimo hit one out of the park for Team Diana with this one. Not only are there some fantastic motion-inducing doubles, but also the plate you see above. Like viewing a flower from the outside, through alien eyes. A foreign chill with a curious mind.
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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.
Hello photographers and artists! This is Owl Eye, and we’ve wrapped another week of great progress on the One More Stop server. It is a busy time for everyone as school is back in full swing, families are together for events and the seasons are changing for both hemispheres bringing new events and ways of looking at the world. Join me as we showcase just a few of the latest gems from our collective’s gallery!
Check out some terrific, intimate street portraits by _Flying_Bacon_ in their gallery below. A collection of unique individualism made all the more special by stepping out of the comfort zone and venturing into new territory.
Capturing the feeling of a carefree day in the countryside, Thomas brings us this beautiful scene in the gallery Summer in Provence. This would make for a wonderful postcard in a corner store. Check out more of Thomas’s work on Instagram below:
Fellow member dc5 has been exploring nature this summer and has collected some gorgeous, ethereal photos in their gallery Macro II. Make sure to check out more from dc5 at the gallery and their Instagram below:
Making their way into PhotoVogue this week, Emilio covered the Malaysian event Keretapi Sarong 2024 with some beautiful large format street portraits. Check out the rest of the set at their gallery and make sure to follow Emilio in Instagram below:
Dennis canvased Andalucía, Spain on Kodak Gold this week and I encourage you to check out this collection. Breathtaking framing makes one dream of traveling to Spain. Check out more of their work on Instagram below:
Make sure to check out the fabulous contributions that have been made to the Holga vs. Diana collaboration. Neutrinissimo strolled in with a set of hauntingly beautiful experimental shots in this gallery. Abstract, boundary-pushing and filled with character, these photos really capture the essence of this category.
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!
As we close out this week and usher in the next, I’d like to invite everyone to take a moment to reflect on those around you who have helped you get to where you are today. Support is a crucial part of growth and forms lasting relationships. Take care and enjoy exploring the world!
Happy Sunday photographers and other art enthusiasts, I hope you’ve been having a lovely week! Summer is almost at a close but that hasn’t stopped our community from creating and posting some very lovely work. Please enjoy these selections, I know I sure did!
Pan’s whole album has amazing photos of foliage, but this photo highlights something harsher than leaves or flowers. I truly appreciate the beauty in this decision to highlight thorns and spikes rather than solely soft foliage. Please check out Pan’s Instagram for some more great photographs!
Containing a gorgeous photo of Yosemite with some gloriously saturated colors, I was very excited to see Blout’s Yosemite album. I am also a huge sucker for 1:1 ratio photos, and you don’t get to see landscapes at this caliber often. Blout’s Instagram has plenty more photos to look through, and I encourage you to take a look.
This photo screams of yearning, with the shadowed hands reaching for each other. The shadows touching in a way that you can tell the hands weren’t brings a bittersweet feeling. The colors that surround the shadows add a bright warm feeling on top of all of that. Dave M makes some amazingly creating work, his website is a great browse.
I love a lit city, and I love a mountain, and I love a good bay. All of those things combined make this photo incredibly cool. The horizon is beautiful and makes a beautiful sandwich with the mountainous foreground. TR.photo’s Instagram is linked below, please check it out!
The Holga vs Diana collaboration is continuing at a wild rate, and Elle-Oat’s entry for team Diana is the most striking selfie I’ve ever seen. Physical handling to cause these distortions, the circular framing, and the harsh colors and scars, make this such an incredible photo. Please take a look at Elle-Oat’s photography at their Instagram below.
It has been a busy time for me but I am always happy to make time for this community, and this blog. I love and appreciate all of you for continuing to build this with me.
Hello artists! Owl Eye here, wrapping up another wonderful week of works from our consummate collective of cognoscenti. Looking through the gallery I found an attention to perspective as a theme for the week. With a good perspective we can captivate and direct the attention of the viewer, more than simply chronicling the scene in the moment.
A breathtaking view from Pan here with great use of perspective giving an illusion of being outside the railing. Leading lines into the corners helps drive the impact of the walkway as the eye travels out into the sunset.
This owl is always drawn to train tracks, the heartbeat of nations. From this perspective we’re left imagining the countless places traveled over endless years. And what’s with that sign? Questions abound.
Everything seems calm and comfortable from this perspective by dontshootphotos. The warm glow of light spilling through the windows onto the plants and furniture. The artwork and wording on the windows and walls.
Come along with mfchill as they journey down the path of finding the editing to the image in our minds. From this perspective you’re heading off on an adventure into the mists of morning. What tales will be told as a we follow along?
Embarking on a night-time street escapade, Moonlight ventured into the “noir” realm with these Delta 3200 photos. This abstract view matches geometry, perspective and emotion to let the mind wander on decided the subject matter.
Check out the rest of their collection in the gallery below:
How deep into the wood have we traveled on this path? There appears to be more to explore ahead from this perspective. Feeling calm and tranquil amidst a foggy morning atmosphere is a wonderful place to find yourself in during a walk.
As the debate rages on between Holga and Diana, Neutrinissimo has found their way into nesting cameras, and we are left to wonder if this was truly shot on a toy camera. Ethereal macro flower photos are a treat any day.
Check out more of Neutrinissimo’s work in the gallery below:
This wraps up another week at One More Stop. From all of us curators to you, we wish you pleasant travels and beautiful experiences as you explore the world of photography. Working together we truly can create new perspectives for the world.
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!
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:
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.
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:
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?
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:
A still from the film “The Passion of Joan of Arc” in the Collaboration thread “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!
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
