Today's post is part of my continuing effort to show my British 35mmc colleagues that California is not all freeways and rapidly built neighborhoods. There are pockets of histor...
She was a living painting hanging above a gloomy stone staircase. A bit of sexual theater.
This anonymous sex worker, erotic dancer, or model earned her daily bread quietly c...
22 March, 2023
Help! I like Dirty Pictures! – By Alex Kreisman
Yes I do! But maybe not in the way you might think! A couple of years ago, I had the chance to post an essay on one of my visits to an extermination camp in these very pages. I ...
21 March, 2023
A Commuter’s Travelogue – by Leah de la Cruz
During my daily commute, I realised that I know nothing about the many stations that I pass and don’t alight at. Are the takeaway shops nicer than at my station? Which has a caf...
18 March, 2023
5 Frames (and a Warning) with FPP’s ISO 6 Yeti film in a Nikon SLR – by Clifton Dowell
I bought a 35mm roll of Yeti on the advice of a friend on Flickr but never had a clear idea of how I would use a film rated at ISO 6. I knew it wouldn’t be shot on the fly, of c...
I was born in January in a small town which back then was still communist Poland. The transition to market economy began a year and a half later. It brought a new opening albeit...
15 March, 2023
The Jumping Bird (A One-Shot Story) – By Dave Powell
In May 2020, word went out that gangs of Baltimore Orioles had invaded Massachusetts. Fresh citrus is one of the birds’ favorite treats, and as you see, I strung a chunk of mand...
14 March, 2023
5(+5) Digital-IR Frames from a Roving CoolPix 990 in Paris
Before Kate and I went to Paris in 2010, a good friend visited one of my digital-infrared exhibits and-- the following Christmas-- gave me a Nikon CoolPix 990 that he’d converte...
