Special details that are not photography by themselves but add to the magic

I am not trying to quote Julie Andrews in "My Favorite Things", but, in fact there are some things I really love about photography and some of its almost insignificant actions. Almost, but they are essential, at least for some kind of photography...

So, here are some of my favourite things:

Advancing film lever on the Rolleiflex TLR

Light metering with photometer

The shutter sound of the Bronica S2A

Extending the bellows of the Zeiss Ikon

Advancing film on the Nikon F3

Creating business cards

One of my goals is to create more in photography. And there are some self-proposed challenges that I will talk about in future posts.

For now it will be strips with an image of my portfolio and a QR code for this blog and my handle for Instagram. It's a way to provide my contacts.

Next task: place these strips - they are self-adhesive vinyl, so you can keep them just like that or stick them in a notebook, for example - inside old rolls that I will bring with me whenever I take pictures.

Step by step I'm trying to improve and keep myself motivated in this area of photography.

Organizing my portfolio or photo gallery

Now that I decided to go a little more seriously into photography, reviving this old blog and all that, it is time to have things done a step at a time.

For now, creating a portfolio, mostly with older photos.

So it means to go through my prints and computer files to select which additional photos I will need to print and which should go to my first online gallery, considering Instagram to be a social network and not a real photo gallery.

I guess this will take some time. So let's spend it then!

Working on returning

Rolleiflex Standard K2 at Jardins Braço de Prata

Twelve years later, looking at things from a different perspective, or rather, through a different lens, I return to this blog and to photography...

Maybe because I feel like I have thngs to say. I will post more content soon...