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News and latest photography from photojournalist Robert L. Jones. This blog is proudly a film photography blog

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

The Often Overlooked

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One thing I love about photography and always have is finding the interesting in the ordinary. Bringing permanence on film to the often o...
Monday, June 29, 2015

When The Stars Align

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Sometimes when shooting film it's like the stars align. I was out driving around and looking to start back up my series titled "...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Everything's (not) Always Bigger In Texas

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I recently started scanning a lifetime worth of film from the last fifteen plus years with my new Epson V800. I want to share some of my fav...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Happy Birthday America

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Happy Independence Day, everyone! U.S. Route 87 (Business), Abernathy, Texas, February 2002 Rolleiflex SL-66 / Zeiss Planar 8...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

All In A Hard Night's Drink

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Milton, Massachusetts, June 2000 Rolleiflex SL-66 / Zeiss Planar 80mm/f2.8 Ilford Pan-F 50 print film
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Glorious Fujifilm Superia 200

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Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) San Francisco, California, October 2014 It is not news that digital has almost co...
Monday, December 15, 2014

What's In A Name

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Berlin, West Germany, July 1987 Ricoh KR-5 Super / Rikkenon 50mm/f2 Agfachrome 100 film When you walk into a store like Kroger, or W...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Colors of Fall on Film

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Who doesn't enjoy the colors of fall in the Midwest? I know I do. Color film does too and this Agfa Ultra 50 print film replicates it...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Desert Oasis?

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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this photo? The Sahara? Camels? Well, while you may be able to ride some camel...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Dr. Strangelove

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The "Dr. Strangelove Room" at Diefenbunker, Canada's cold War Museum, Carp Ontario, July 2014 Nikon FM-3A / Nikkor 24mm/f...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Bodega Head State Park

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Bodega Head is part of the Sonoma Coast State Park in California. Sonoma Coast is made up of several beaches that are separated by rock b...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Howard Johnson: The Decline of an Era

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In the 1960s and 1970s, there were more than 1,000 combined company owned and franchised Howard Johnson outlets. It was the largest resta...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Human Spirit on Film

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The human spirit. It's something that only a photo can so uniquely capture. It can portray a thousand different stories to a thousand...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

City of Warriors

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In the state of Coahuila is a municipality called Guerrero. It's a small city, with less than one thousand inhabitants. Even such a s...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

A Steam-tastic Invention

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While visiting Vancouver, one must stop into Gastown and take a look at the steam-powered clock that has become a major tourist attractio...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Black Gold

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U.S. Route 50, Capon Bridge, West Virginia, June 2013 Rolleiflex SL-66, Zeiss Planar 80mm/f2.8 Kodak Ektar 100 film Oil. It's bee...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

The American Motor Lodge

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There is something beautiful about vintage motels and Polaroid film. It's like they were made for each other. In my travels across th...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Oh, Canada

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Near Beardmore, Ontario, Canada, June 2012 Nikon FM-3A Nikkor 50mm/f1.4 Agfa RSX-II 100 film Construction of Canada's Trans-cont...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Los Colores de Coahuila

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Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico, May 2007 I've resumed work on my forthcoming book, Los Colores de Coahuila.  Stop by here for details on...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Right Wing Art

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Loop 335, Amarillo, Texas, February, 2001  Apparently, I am a right-wing artist (See their December 3, 2013 entry).   Not that I make r...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Ektachrome, Requiescat En Pace

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Bathhouse, Coney Island,  Brooklyn, New York, November 1988 Richoh KR-5 Super / Rikkenon 50mm/f2 Kodak Ektachrome  200 reversal f...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Vivian Maier and Sins of Omission

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Vivian Maier, street photographer, c. 1950s In all the reading I have done about Vivian Maier, the celebrated photographers (many of ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Small Town U.S.A.

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A few of my favorite things: Film, the Southwest, and small towns. Put them all together and I'm in heaven. I love capturing the smal...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

HDR

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Reyjavik, Iceland, August 2001 This is the only HDR photograph you'll ever see from me, but none of the earmarks that define that...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Russell Means, 1939-2012

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Russell Means at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2000 I just heard from a friend that Russell Means has died . The Lakota leade...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Kodak Ektralite 10

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Windmills, Grand Meadow, Minnesota, October 2012 What you can still do with a cheap pocket camera and a roll of 110 film.
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Howard Johnson's, Harrisonburg, Virginia

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Howard Johnson's Restaurant and Motor Lodge, U.S. Route 11, Harrisonburg, Virginia, June 1991 The iconic orange roofs of Howard Joh...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Kodak Ektar 25

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Erika Gross, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1988     When we left Shepherdstown, West Virginia - just five miles away - the sun was high in the ...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Autumn Is Here

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Alisaith, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, October 2003
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

eBook "Looking Down" Released

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I am pleased to announce the release of my second book, Looking Down: Photographs From the Sidewalks of Hyde Park, Boston , published...
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Robert Jones
Robert Jones is a photographer and writer living in Southeast Minnesota. Originally from the East Coast of the U.S., he has worked for Time-Life publications in color correction, as an Army photojournalist, and as the entertainment editor for The New Individualist.
His work has appeared in Black & White, the Oxford University Press, and Lose Blätter.
He is currently working on his first book.
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