Inspiration | The F6 Project

Arches National Park, January 2020 – part I

by John Crane | Jan 10, 2020 | Black and White, Destinations, Inspiration

Arches National Park, January 2020. Having just returned from a long weekend to Arches National Park, I’m beginning to work through my film. Shot a good bit of 35mm and 120, both color and monochrome this trip, keeping with my New Year’s...

All In

by John Crane | Jan 1, 2020 | Film, Inspiration

The D3s and F6 have worked side by side for 10 years. It’s time to say goodbye to one of them – and it’s not the F6. It’s January 1, 2020. Not just the beginning of a new year, but a new decade. Tonight in the local news (well, not exactly...

South St. Vrain River, Allenspark, Colorado

by John Crane | Jul 10, 2019 | Black and White, Inspiration

Why do we need to say something – anything – about our images? A few weeks ago I was in Chicago looking at a display of student work at Moody Bible Institute. There were two different exhibitions: one with very nice photographs, printed on canvas and...

The Shop

by John Crane | Mar 4, 2019 | 4042n, Black and White, Inspiration

How honest do I want to be? How much of myself am I willing to reveal? I’m not a minimalist. At least not in the photographic sense of the word. While I occasionally admire the photo of a mostly empty hillside with subtle tones and a single, isolated tree positioned...

When You’re Really Trying…

by John Crane | Oct 6, 2018 | Color Photography, Destinations, Inspiration, Road Trippin', Slide Film

OK, so maybe I jumped the gun a little. Maybe I still do have something to say regarding the F6. Allow me to explain. Over the past several years I’ve enjoyed shooting with a variety of cameras, including all the Nikon single-digits F-series, as well as a...

Check Please…

by John Crane | Sep 27, 2018 | General Information, Inspiration

10 years ago when I first put up the F6 Project I was re-invigorated with passion for film photography, the camera, and this new journey I had embarked on: stepping off the digital camera merry-go-round onto solid, analogue ground once again: film, and the film way....