While as a rule I am open to experimentation in photography, I have not dealt much with expired films, despite my admiration for the results many photographers are able to coax ...
David Pauley's Posts
My Rolleiflex and I joined a crowd of a hundred thousand for the NYC “Hands Off” protests on April 5th (there were hundreds of parallel events in the U.S. and around...
29 April, 2025
Red Hook Grain Terminal – A One Shot Story
I was going through binders of negatives the other day and came upon this photo of the Red Hook Grain Terminal, a hulking landmark on an industrial stretch of the South Brooklyn...
29 April, 2025
Holiday? Relapse? A Night Out with My Leica M3
I made it almost three months into the Year of Only One Camera (my Rolleiflex 2.8F) but then – as some of you predicted – made the decision to allow myself a brief h...
15 April, 2025
A Paul Chaleff Vase Series
In this series of photos, taken with my Rolleiflex 2.8F, I focus on a vase made in the 1980s by noted American potter and ceramist Paul Chaleff (he’s shown above in a port...
5 April, 2025
An Unexpected Trip Home with my Rolleiflex 2.8F
My Rolleiflex 2.8F kept me company on an unexpected trip from NYC back to my hometown in Western Pennsylvania earlier this winter to assist my 95 year old mother after a fall. D...
21 January, 2025
Heads or Tails? My Camera Choice for 2025
Having sketched out the reasons for my decision to commit to just one camera for the New Year in a previous post, I’ll now walk through the various contenders and reveal m...
21 January, 2025
A New Year’s Resolution: One Camera for 2025
For the New Year, I am plotting a significant shift in my approach to film photography. Rather than moving from camera to camera, pivoting from 35mm to medium format or even 4&#...