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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
Meet me by the Steps – My 2026 Photo of the Year
There may be a feeling of déjà vu about this image as it was taken at the same place as my 2025 photo of the year, the steps by the Painted Hall in the Greenwich Naval College. ...
10 November, 2026
Why I Built Forma – Reimagining a 75-Year-Old Viewfinder
After more than a year of development, I’m excited to share Forma, a modular, multi-format optical viewfinder that can be tailored to your exact lenses and shooting format...
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...
9 November, 2026
5 Frames with a faulty Petri 7 Half and Flic Film Apollo 18
The Petri 7 Half is a half-frame compact camera with zone focusing and the option of manual control at a fixed speed of 1/40sec, as measured by me, or automatic exposure using a...
9 November, 2026
Room 904 – My Photo of the Year 2026
In April, we spent several days in Butte, Montana, staying in the hotel room Robert Frank occupied while he was traveling the country, making the photographs that became his lan...
9 November, 2026
Minolta Dynax 700si review – On the button
In 1993 Minolta released their latest enthusiast autofocus SLR, just two years after the release of the previous model. It was called the Alpha 707si in Japan, Dynax 700si in Eu...
8 November, 2026
Triumph motorcycle – Photo of the Year 2026
When I bought this 1933 Summar 50mm f2.0 I shot some test photographs on my Leica M240 and got pretty good results so long as I avoided pointing anywhere near the sun. I had hig...
