24 September, 2025
Reflections on an Impromptu Photo Shoot
At this stage, it happens fairly often: a conversation with a stranger that eventually leads to a photo. Sometimes I approach them, though often it’s the other way around....
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4 August, 2025
Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames
I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation wher...
15 July, 2025
Leica M7 – A Trial Run, and My Decision Not to Keep It
Quiet for quite some time, my Gear Acquisition Syndrome perked up last month, in the middle of my Year of the Rolleiflex, when I spied a “deal” at a large Manhattan ...
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 ...
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...