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Conglomeration

by Marcy Merrill | Mar 23, 2017 | Junk Store Cameras | 4 Comments

I did not realize, when I began this 100 day camera review journey, that I would be sent down so many different avenues of inspiration. There was a time when I processed so much film, I simply glanced at the negatives, chose a few to print or scan, then filed them....

Handtinting photographs

by Marcy Merrill | Mar 17, 2017 | Handtinting | 0 Comments

I’ve spent a good part of my life handtinting photographs with a variety of paints, dyes, pastels, Photoshop etc. (There’s 30 years I won’t get back.) I recently signed up for a youtube channel and posted two handtinting how-to videos. Click here for...

Bill Dawson, metalsmith

by Marcy Merrill | Jan 29, 2017 | artist portfolios | 4 Comments

Gather ’round, my creative friends! I’m working on photographing some pieces by renowned metalsmith, Bill Dawson. ( click here for his website … but don’t go there yet! I still need your attention over here.) What I’ve been given...

Junk Store Cameras – a labor of love.

by Marcy Merrill | Dec 31, 2016 | Junk Store Cameras | 5 Comments

Once upon a time there was a magnificent website. Well, ok… maybe it was magnificent only to me. Where to begin with this? Ha! 2015 was the 20th anniversary of a website I run called JunkStoreCameras.com . Once a bustling metropolis populated with many plastic...

#formalwearworninappropriately

by Marcy Merrill | Dec 12, 2016 | Formal Wear worn inappropriately | 6 Comments

There are times when I question the use of that hashtag … #formalwearworninappropriately. I sometimes think better grammar might have it “formalwearworninaninappropriatemanner”, but that doesn’t quite jibe with the spirit of this series,...

Cleaning the studio like a mad woman (not)

by Marcy Merrill | Nov 15, 2016 | Junk Store Cameras | 0 Comments

I have this idyllic picture in my head of what I’ll be doing throughout this fall / winter season. While the rain and wind pelt our house and studio, I’m busily working on my web sites, cooking great meals, working on my beaded bike (CyClick) and CLEANING...

Gala Edition Cameras – beaded wonders of the world

by Marcy Merrill | Nov 10, 2016 | Junk Store Cameras | 0 Comments

I have this weird thing I do sometimes [a lot of the time]. I bead cameras. I call them my “Gala Edition” cameras. I take glass beads, rhinestones and other questionably precious pieces and attach them to cameras. I’ve been doing this for a while....

200 Things – a Washaway Beach album

by Marcy Merrill | Oct 10, 2016 | Beach Shooting | 0 Comments

Cool and crazy stuff washes up on our beach all the time. I’m lucky to have the opportunity to document the things I see. On my [almost] daily walks with my dog[s], I never EXPECT to find anything. Some days I don’t find much of anything. Then, one day...

First Post and New Website!

by Marcy Merrill | Aug 12, 2016 | Beach Shooting, Dogs | 0 Comments

I have this thing where, I have all these great blog ideas. Then I go to implement them and everything comes to a screaming, screeching halt. (Insert the sound of skidding tires and a whiff of overheated brake pads.) Typing these few sentences is the first step in...

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