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...
5 April, 2025
An Unexpected Trip Home with my Rolleiflex 2.8F
My Rolleiflex 2.8F kept me company on an unexpected trip from NYC back to my hometown in Western Pennsylvania earlier this winter to assist my 95 year old mother after a fall. D...
1 April, 2025
5 Blue Frames on Kodak Portra
This little story starts with my difficult relationship with Kodak Portra, but in the end, a set of photos like a lot. I never really liked this film that folks say is warm tone...
30 March, 2025
5 Frames Hiking the Lake District
I’ve visited the Lakes District in northern England on two occasions. Twenty years ago I completed about half of the 190 mile Coast to Coast Trail which runs across north...
28 March, 2025
Takayama in the Spring – A One Shot Story
As I write this the first days of March are quickly giving way to the promise of another magnificent Spring in Japan. Every photographer should have late March-early April marke...
27 March, 2025
A night by the banyan with Nikon FM2 and Tollygrunge Noir
It was late in the evening and I was starting to get restless, which is not unusual when I seem to have nothing to do. Then I figured out that I actually had something to do, wh...
I bought the Rollei XF 35 second-hand about five years ago because I was looking for a simple point-and-shoot camera with a high-quality lens for 35mm film. I must admit, I don’...
19 March, 2025
5 frames with a Canon Sure Shot WP-1 and Kodak Ultramax 400
Gear Acquisition Syndrome; aka GAS. We all seem to suffer from it one way or another. Whenever I find an excuse (and some extra cash) to buy new gear, I jump on it. Whether that...