I have always liked "nice" things. I would rather have less quantity but with a greater quality. My favorite fly rods are made by Orvis. My camera of choice has always been Niko...
Dan Smouse's Posts
30 October, 2022
5 Frames on holiday in Beaufort, South Carolina with a Fujica Half and Kodak Ultramax – By Dan Smouse
Vacations, in my personal experience (and preference), always involve cameras to record the story. One of the quintessential "vacation" cameras of the 60's was the Half-frame. T...
12 January, 2022
5 Frames with an Argus/Cosina STL and Fomapan 400 after the Season’s First Snow – By Dan Smouse
Stopping at the local Salvation Army store whenever I find myself in Kenai has become a regular tradition for me. I go there looking for the underappreciated film cameras of yea...
18 September, 2021
5 Frames with a Gifted Nikon F and Ilford Delta 400 – By Dan Smouse
I was contacted a short while back by a friend who told me she had recently purchased a home in the area. The former owners had left her with basically all their possessions, in...
I don’t know what I was doing or even where I first got my first glimpse of a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLR but I do remember in that moment I had to have one. I’m not sure how to de...
Sometimes the urge to do something out of the norm comes over me from out of the blue; like stopping at the Salvation Army that I drive by literally every day, yet rarely giving...
The text message from my brother said there was a package heading my way but I was not to open it until Christmas. Being we are both camera junkies and most of our weekly phone ...
Photography has always been in my blood, though for many years I didn’t engage it. The family photo album is filled with old, mostly faded Polaroid’s my dad shot from the first ...
