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Vintage North Park camera shop’s new owners celebrate resurgence of old-school film photography
NORTH PARK — Like a lot of pictures buffs, Rob Cowan purchased a electronic digital camera as shortly as they came out a pair a long time in the past. He liked its instantaneous success and the flexibility it gave him to shoot unrestricted pictures until he obtained the perfect shot. Then about 6 years back, the 39-12 months-old San Diego resident received bored with digital images for the pretty exact same good reasons. Exactly where was the obstacle, the considered course of action and the artistry? So he returned to conventional film photography and never looked again. “It has its very own experience,” he explained. “It’s tangible. You can maintain…
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The first man to hunt wildlife with a camera, not a rifle | Photography
In 1909 two wildlife safari expeditions arrived by ship in Mombasa, Kenya, within days of each other. One party was enormous and led by the adventure-loving US president Teddy Roosevelt; the other consisted of just two men and was headed by Cherry Kearton, a young British bird photographer from Yorkshire. Over several months on safari the trigger-happy president and his son Kermit killed 17 lions, 11 elephants, 20 rhino, nine giraffes, 19 zebra, more than 400 hippos, hyena and other large animals, as well as many thousands of birds and smaller animals. By contrast Kearton, the first man in the world to hunt with a camera and not a rifle,…
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