Author: Azriel Knight
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Minimalist Packing: 3 Essential Laws for Road Trip Success
When it comes to total weight on everything you’ve packed for a road trip it can be death by 1000 cuts. What seemed like a series of rational choices has now become an overstuffed and cumbersome set of bags. Each time I take a road trip I find myself regretting some of the things I’ve… Continue Reading
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Navigating Unforeseen Challenges Before Your Road Trip
As of this post date, I am thirteen days out from leaving Calgary on my cross-Canada road trip. What an appropriate number for this topic. Dealing with setbacks or in other words rolling with the bad luck of planning for a road trip. While my experiences are pretty unique to me perhaps you’ll find some… Continue Reading
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Inglewood’s Gresham Block: A Tale of Neglect and Change
The Gresham Block was a late Edwardian style commercial structure built in 1911 and stood on the corner of 9th avenue and 13th Street, in the heart of Inglewood. Built by brothers John and Henry Dismorr after purchasing the lot in 1910, Gresham Block cost $30,000 to build (about a million in today’s money). The… Continue Reading
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One Year with Nikon Z6II: A Practical Review
A year ago, I decided to take the leap from DSLR into Mirrorless after a hiatus from shooting film. The Nikon Z6II was my top choice. I come from an all Nikon system, so my D780 and its lenses more than complimented my 35mm Nikon F100. Now I should clarify that I already owned a… Continue Reading
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The Minolta X-700: A History
The Minolta X-700 is a 35mm SLR introduced in 1981 and represents the last manual focus SLR by Minolta before the release of the Maxxum 7000 in 1985. Minolta’s brochure called it a “state of the art quartz-control electronic 35mm SLR” They boasted a first ever “shutter weighted system” meaning the camera is programmed to… Continue Reading
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The Super Accurate Darkroom in Spider-Man 2 For the PS5
I broke the bank and got Spider-Man 2 on launch day when I said I wouldn’t, maybe I saw one too many clips on YouTube but none the less I pulled out the ‘ol Master Card and when I got home spent the next few days glued to the set. Early on in the game,… Continue Reading
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Capturing the Beauty of Alberta’s Grain Elevators 2025
I’ve been working on capturing every grain elevator I can find here in Alberta fore the past few years now. I’m getting close to completing my project, with only about a dozen left to shoot now. The trip journal below doubles as a dress rehearsal for another project. You can learn about what I mean… Continue Reading
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Why a Dress Rehearsal is Crucial for Your Trip
At the time of this writing, I am T-Minus thirty-nine days until I leave on a sixty-day road trip across Canada and back. From Calgary, Alberta to St. John’s, Newfoundland and so much in between. The road trip prep has been extensive. Going from zero to sixty as it were, is quite the leap. Especially… Continue Reading
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A Quick Film Developer From 1950: Ethol 90
While some of you love the process of developing your own negatives, I’ve found it boring sometimes. Some of the developers out there take a long time. So, when I came across a seventy-four year old article talking about a 90 second quick film developer in production, I was intrigued. Then, when I went to… Continue Reading
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6 Essential Landscape Photography Tips from the 90s
In August 1997, both Popular Photography and Outdoor Photographer Magazines released landscape tips and advice curated from professional photographers. From this coincidence, one can only assume each had a mole in their respective editing rooms. I was curious if the advice given regarding landscape photography was much different in the 1990s than it is today.… Continue Reading
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