9 September, 2025
My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...
Curtis Heikkinen's Posts
2 September, 2025
Me and a Fish (Circa 1960) – A One Shot Story
One of my most vivid memories of growing up on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Proctorsville, Vermont, is of pulling that brook trout out of the small brook that flowed in back of ou...
I’ve posted a number of pieces on this site, all but one featuring images from my Leica M3 with a Zeiss 50 mm F2 lens. That set up has been my primary one for film photography....
20 April, 2025
Downtown with a Leica M3
I hike, kayak and snowshoe as much as I can. I really enjoy getting out in the backcountry by myself. Sometimes, though, I find great satisfaction in the urban landscape, wand...
26 January, 2025
At the Oregon Coast… Sort of – Shooting the Mundane in B&W
My wife and I are fortunate to live in close proximity to the Oregon coast, one of the most scenic stretches of coastline in the United States, if not the world. We visit as fr...
14 October, 2024
Yashica D – Diving into Medium Format
I have been intrigued by medium format film cameras for a while. It wasn’t until I saw a very positive review of a Yashica D TLR that I seriously looked into the possibility of...
4 June, 2024
Creekside with a Leica M3
Hiking the forests around Oregon’s Mount Hood is a source of great pleasure. Recently, I hiked along a favorite crook with my Leica M3 loaded with Portra 160 film. I’ve photogr...
4 April, 2024
Leica M3 and Portra 400 at 6000 Feet (1828 meters)
Since retiring in 2015, I have been seriously pursuing photography, digital for the most part. About a year or so ago, I resurrected an old film camera from the 1980s, a Konica ...