© 2020 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. I’m still working on my 35mm project and have restored more of my vintage photos. This small series is part of a bigger series I took in the United Kingdom back in 1987. I was on one of those guided bus tours…
© 2017, 2020 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. It won’t make you a great photographer I’ve joined a few photography groups on Facebook and have learned some helpful tips and tricks. I’m also seeing some outstanding photography. Unfortunately, I’m also seeing a subliminal message coming from newbies.They all seem…
© 1979 2020 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. I attended Arizona State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ASU is a beautiful campus with impressive architecture and scenic landscaping. In 2011 I revisited the campus. Some areas looked exactly as they did when I was a student.…
Restoring my old 35mm photos has been a fun trip down memory lane. This series, circa 1980, features the European Crossroads Shopping Center, located near Bachman Lake in Dallas, Texas. I was going to an art school at the time, and the school was one of the tenants. Dallas gets…
I sold my home in Tucson, Arizona this past July. (I know. It’s sounds of like Jojo in that old Beatles song.) I then moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico. In the middle of a heat wave. In the middle of a pandemic. Yep, it’s how I roll. I bought…
The band Five Way Street. © 2020 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. Once upon a time, before Covid came along, I was a regular at The Gaslight Music Hall in Oro Valley, Arizona. It was a fun place. Several of my friends performed there, and I made a number…
I recently went on a mini photography excursion to St. Philip’s Plaza. St. Philip’s Plaza is a small, upscale shopping center here in Tucson. Normally it’s quite busy. However, with Covid-19 restrictions, it’s become a ghost town. This meant I could actually find a parking space. After all, we have…
It’s funny how a seemingly unremarkable photo can become iconic. Such is the case with the above photo, titled, Joy! A few years ago I had to go to San Diego to work on a video I was producing. I needed footage of a figure walking into the ocean, at…
I know I haven’t been around this blog lately, although I have been having some new photography adventures. I love to travel, and a photography excursion is the perfect excuse to take a trip. However, in light of current events, I’ve had to curtail my traveling, so I’ve rediscovered the…
As I mentioned in my earlier post, The 35mm Project, I finally invested in a film scanner and have been creating digital files from my old negatives, including some of the old black and white negatives from my college photography course. For reasons that make no sense to me today,…