I’ve chosen the 18th century Robert Van Rensselaer Mill in the Hudson Valley hamlet of Claverack as the subject of this first installment in an occasional series on large-...
10 November, 2026
Meet Miss Velzoe Brown
When I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to the little village of Felton, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, I was motivated to get into the jazz music scene. Bob Smith, a trumpet...
10 November, 2026
Leica ii D (1932) & Leica Summar 50mm f2 (1934 ) – NYC Street Shooting
In the waning days of Summer, 2026, I decided to take a flyer on an early Barnack Leica. I was intrigued by the history of the pioneering 35mm rangefinders, and perhaps attracte...
6 November, 2026
Back in the Game: Week One, Flowers
At the end of 2022, I joined a weekly photo game run by Kenneth Wajda. Each week there was a prompt, and the rules were simple: shoot, develop, scan, and submit a photograph mat...
5 November, 2026
Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.
I haven’t enjoyed any photography lately, and haven’t picked up a camera since early Summer when I last posted an article here, that was with my Voigtlander Ultramat...
4 November, 2026
Architecture of Compliance – Abbotsford Convent, Australia
From 1863 until its deactivation in 1975, the Abbotsford Convent was one of the largest welfare institutions in Australia, receiving thousands of girls and women who were abando...
4 November, 2026
The Strange Landscape of Parys Mountain
Parys Mountain is an old copper mine on the island of Anglesey in North Wales, established in the Bronze Age but heavily exploited in the 18th Century. It’s not actually a...
2 November, 2026
A Journey into the Past
Early October, autumn in Germany. Sunny, dry weather with mild temperatures. I got into my car and drove to two places, each 20 km away from where I live. Both places are in the...
