Archive - F8 - My Final Photo News

Frame Two of Five - The Five Exposure Roll of Film

Second in a series of elevating importance

Dec 29, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

Seeing Isn't Believing: How Attribution Can Fight the Visual Lie

Third in a series about attribution - by Gary Gardiiner

Dec 24, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

Frame One of Five - The Five Exposure Roll of Film

First in a series of elevating importance

Dec 23, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

My Final Photo Collection Donated

The following is a summary of a Columbus Dispatch story about my donation to the Westerville History Museum at the library.

Dec 14, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

The Edits from Saturday's Snow

I spent several hours in Uptown Westerville just after Saturday’s snow began to fall, looking for a photo that might be worthy of being My Final Photo.

Dec 14, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

November 2025

Photos On Black Friday Before the Internet

What We Lost When the Lines Disappeared

Nov 28, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

New Year, New Socks, and 7,671 Days of Creativity

On November 15, 2025, I reached a unique milestone: 7,671 days of taking a photo each day since November 15, 2004.

Nov 22, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

The First Thing We Do Is Play

Whenever a new technology appears, the first thing we do is play.

Nov 3, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

The Periphery and the Slice of History

Pressing the shutter is often seen as a reflex.

Nov 1, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

October 2025

Interesting Birthday Day

A photographer’s clothes hang on hooks on the back of the doctor’s examining room door.

Oct 24, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

The Granularity of Eighty-One Years

I began my birthday, 81, naked in an empty room, waiting for someone I haven’t seen in a year to tell me what my future will be.

Oct 23, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

There Is Always A Before Now

Twelve years ago, a kid named Giovanni Napoli snowboarded down a hill behind the Yarnell Farm, a landmark just on the edge of town.

Oct 9, 2025 • Gary Gardiner

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