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

Friday, October 14, 2011

Stairways to Heaven

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U.S. Route 87, Colfax County, New Mexico, February 2002 There is a story behind this memorial.  To be shared soon....  
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Film From the Freezer

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  U.S. Route 63, Rochester, Minnesota, October 2011 A fun thing to do as a photographer, especially when I am bored, is to test film I'...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Ali Sifuentes

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Painting of Kentucky Fried Chicken on U.S. Route 14, Rochester, Minnesota by artist Ali Sifuentes Often when I eat at a fast food restaura...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Road Less Traveled

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  U.S. Route 12, Oakdale, Wisconsin, September 2011 Not to sound like Andy Rooney, but Have You Ever Noticed that whereas the old independe...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Daniel Raven Valdes, 1945-2011

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Portrait of Daniel Raven Valdes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2005 Copyright © 2005, Lori V. M. Montoya Bad news travels fast, but the sadd...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Madhi Choudhury, Graphic Artist

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  Mahdi Choudhury's reimagining of a poster for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Vertigo Sometimes, a graphic so totally bowls me ov...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Happy Accident

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Trans-Canada Highway, outside Parkbeg, Saskatchewan August 2011 Shooting with my Polaroid Super Colorpack, I had left the focus ring set at...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Tomatoes!

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  Tomatoes on conveyor belt to washer Ingomar Packing Facility, Los Banos, California, July 2011 It slices, it dices, look at that tomato!...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

You Can't Go Back Sometimes

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Cedarhof Restaurant Trans-Canada Highway, Wawa Ontario, Canada, August 2011 The first time I traveled the Trans-Canada Highway, in October ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Pixley Tire Shop Revisited

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  Pixley Tire Shop, off State Highway 99 Pixley, California, July 2011 I always like to revisit places I've photographed before, partic...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Tomato Harvest In the San Joaquin Valley

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Tomatoes and Vista of California's Coastal Mountains Huron, California, July 2011 Dear readers, my apologies for being "gone"...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Mission San Juan Bautista, California

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U.S. Route 101, South of San Juan Bautista, California, July 2011 California's Mission San Juan Bautista was founded by Spani...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Garish: The Next Generation

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State Highway 13, Morgan County, West Virginia, June 2011 When driving to your destination this summer on vacation, remember to look out fo...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Crazy Horse in Black and White

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Crazy Horse Memorial Crazy Horse, South Dakota, April 2011  I finally got around to developing the film I took of the majestic Crazy Horse...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Going To California

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Fallow land, outside Mendota, California, aerial shot, June 2010 Next week, I'll be continuing work on my pictorial essay on the San Jo...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Out of the Box: Rediscovered Photographs

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Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2000
Monday, June 20, 2011

Out of the Box: Rediscovered Photographs

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Barber Shop, Hyde Park Boston, Massachusetts, September 2000 So, I ask the two barbers if I can snap a photograph of them in their shop.  ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

One Lonely Night

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U.S. Route 522, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, October 1989 I found this photograph, eerily reminiscent of Hitchcock's Psycho on many lev...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Concrete Cathedrals

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Grain Elevator U.S. Route 150, Fithian, Illinois, June 2011 I saw this beautiful example of an early-20th century granary in rural Illinois...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Garish: The Next Generation

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Unger Store, State Highway 13, Unger, West Virginia, May 2011 Some times, as a photographer, I luck out:  Unger's General Store closed ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Garish: The Next Generation

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Mid-1970s Sebring Vanguard Citi Car SV-48 U.S. Route 136, near Brownsburg, Indiana, June 2011 Who killed the electric car?  Just stabbing i...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Garish: The Next Generation

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Waffle House Restaurant, Arlington Road, Brookville, Ohio June 2011 This is not a "Poladroid."  This is not something I tweaked i...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Ronnie James Dio: One Year Later

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Ronnie James Dio passed into the afterlife one year ago, today.  This self-portrait is dedicated to his memory, replete with flashing horn...
Friday, April 29, 2011

New Book Launch: Los Colores de Coahuila

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Guitarist, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, March 2001 As Garish: Roadside Polaroids goes through its final tweaks and polishing, as it g...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Camera Phone Heresies: Crazy Horse Memorial

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Crazy Horse Mountain Memorial, scultpted from an original model by Korczak Ziolkowski Crazy Horse, South Dakota, April 2011 Of course, no...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Camera Phone Heresies: Wisconsin Trailer Park

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  U.S. Route 12, near New Lisbon, Wisconsin, April 2011 The simple eloquence of these hand-painted signs is disappearing in a rapidly stand...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Back From the Dead

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State Route 9, Paw Paw, West Virginia July 2004 In the hazy, lazy days of summer, this sign beckons the motorist to its cooling charms.  Bu...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Los Colores de Coahuila - Film from the Freezer

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Street scene.  Location unknown, Coahuila, November 2004. Of course, one of the problems of keeping film in the freezer forever is I someti...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Icelandic Sojourn

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Granaries, outside Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2001 So I visit Iceland, and what do I photograph?  The spectacle of Icelandic nature in pano...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Stuff I Should Have Printed

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Gnarled mesquite and epiphytes.  Kerr County, Texas, October 2000 When you go through hundreds of rolls of film in a year, it is entirely p...
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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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