Tuesday, May 29, 2007

blues fest sign


been seeing this sign for months and decided to shoot it today. there are a few different ones around town; i need to get them all. they're all different... and all 'folk art'
i did this w/my little digital casio camera, but cropped and Photo-Shopped it to b&w. also shot it with my nikon and toy cam... need to finish off the film and develop it. am planning to take a day and drive around making pix next week...or later...
[c] doug duffey

Monday, May 28, 2007

bubba's fish market- monroe louisiana

i started buying and bought up a ton of cheap plastic fixed focus camera at goodwill, salvation army, and junk stores, etc. a few years back [I've even bought NEW ones at the dollar tree]- i usually fill several with different ASA film and carry 3 or 4 with me when i go 'shooting'. i love the effect they get... especially if i scan b&w as color. i usually scan them at VERY hi resolution in case i one day decide to print them HUGE! [which is what i want to do] -i was actually going to do a whole blog of toy cam fotos; and i still might... but I've been busy with music business stuff and haven't had much time to do photography. i've been doing various series with the toy cams- mostly stuff around town, or in natchez and/or vicksburg mississippi, and tallulah louisiana and around the delta region. i have a deep love of the deep south... i love old hand painted signs; rusted tin barns, cotton gins, farm equipment; swamps and bayous; old brick downtowns; old cemeteries and churches... but the old things are unfortunately being destroyed, torn down, and modern buildings and crap put up in their place. we're losing cultural history about as fast as we're losing wetlands. the disappearance of a lot of things here really bothers me; so i've been trying to shoot as much as i can before it's gone. even some shots of buildings i did downtown last year, and a few years ago, are now gone... sad, sad, sad...
[c] doug duffey

new orleans 1963

ALTAR, ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL, 1963i'm amazed this shot even came out, what with no flash... but there again...that's why i love old cameras! unfortunately the side got ripped off when i took it off a wall sized collage i had in my bedroom in the 60s!

JACKSON SQUARE, 1963

there again, the lighting in this is totally off, but i love the effect. the brown crap on it is from scotch tape. it was a victim of one of my collages. i have no idea where the negatives are, even though i have a lot of the old family camera negatives. but i've scanned it at VERY hi-resolution and doctored and tweaked the 'eventual' printable version in photoshop .

BOURBON STREET- NEW ORLEANS- 1963i shot these fotos in 1963 when i was 13. we were living in new orleans [actually in Chalmette] when my dad and brother were working there.
i'd usually go with my mama to the Quarter... or i'd take the bus and hang out alone! not real smart for a 13 year old boy!

i only have these few shots that i made back then- using my mama's old kodak 120 film camera- but i love these fotos. unfortunately i used some of them in a big collage in my bedroom when i was a teenager and some got irreparably damaged... but they're a nice souvenir of New Orleans in the 60s.

[c] 2007 doug duffey

Thursday, May 24, 2007


mystic bayou [c] 2007 doug duffey

i shot this foto a long time ago; developed the negative and printed it; i moved the paper around while it was under the enlarger to get the effect. i don't even know what happened to the original foto... it had been in a friends gallery and then in his house... and then, i think, got given away...