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4 August, 2025
Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames
By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...
3 August, 2025
Dreaming of the pool (One for Dave Powell)
Reader discretion advised: references to extreme violence and an image of blood and gore – The featured image and the one below taken by my daughter on a smartphone. It wa...
DIY sensor device for mechanical film camera shutter speed testing
2 August, 2025
Photographers in fiction
I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...
2 August, 2025
Widelux in the Wine Country
For a recent family vacation to Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country, I opted for a single camera and lens: the Widelux F7. This swing-lens panoramic camera, fam...
1 August, 2025
Be Careful with Generative AI! (One Shot Story)
On July 17, 2025, more than 1,500 anti-Trump “Make Good Trouble” protests (totaling perhaps 56,000 people) occurred across the U.S. Of these, nearly 100 groups gathered in Massa...
1 August, 2025
The mystery of the car in the attic – a one shot story
We have all heard of barn finds – abandoned cars, tractors, sometimes even whole classic car-collections that were left to collect dust and grime in barns and garages unti...
1 August, 2025
Box Brownie model 2A.
The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.
