It’s got this kind of… mmm… It’s burn-y, melty… it’s not really a smoky taste… It’s kind of like this ‘ba-boom! zap!’ kind of taste. Don’t you think? – Remy, R...
I don’t know where this story should begin. Perhaps that uncertainty is the only honest place to start. For years, I have lived with anxiety. At its worst, it escalated into pan...
It was close to nine in the evening, yet the edge of the sky was still pale blue. The heat had not softened. Dry wind lifted sand and cut against my exposed skin. Eighteen wheel...
The first roll from my recently acquired Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35 is soft, partly due to its toyish optics and partly because of its quirky AF mechanism. It is so soft that ...
I’ve always felt a kind of disgust toward the trend of full automation and burst shooting. I call it spray and pray. The camera sets the exposure, detects a smile, locks on an e...
Have you ever heard of engineered engine noise, that artificial roar coming from the speakers of an EV, pretending there’s a combustion engine working inside? Or, have you seen ...
I mentioned the Lomography Instant briefly in my earlier article about the Polaroid Go, and I think it deserves its own short story. The Lomo Instant was my first instant camera...
I made a terrible mistake at the very start of my month-long U.S. trip this August. I left my X100F at home. Sure, I had a film SLR in my bag, but that meant weeks of waiting be...