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...
10 March, 2025
5 frames with a borrowed Konica IIIa
Sometime last year I borrowed a Konica IIIa off Rob Hawthorn. The plan was to shoot a few rolls and review it. He assured me it was an awesome camera with a great lens and viewf...
9 March, 2025
5 Frames with Kodak Portra 400 in a Pentax 67
These photographs were captured by me in Carmel, California for my sister’s wedding. Development was done by thedarkroom.com but I scanned all of these on a Nikon Coolscan 8000 ...
16 February, 2025
Shooting Leica Ms and a Hasselblad 500 CM in the Canadian Rockies
It’s still a little unbelievable, but my son was recently gifted an extensive collection of vintage high end still equipment that had been sitting in a friend’s basement for dec...
4 August, 2024
5 Frames of Iceland (on Portra 400 and HP5+)
I’ve been trying to write this for over seven months, yet I can still remember the trip quite vividly. In November 2023, my wife and I were planning a trip to Iceland after a ra...
After the first test of my Rolleicord Vb with Ilford HP5, I wanted to try a color film, and my choice fell on Kodak Portra 400, a film considered a milestone by many. The cloudy...
4 April, 2024
Leica M3 and Portra 400 at 6000 Feet (1828 meters)
Since retiring in 2015, I have been seriously pursuing photography, digital for the most part. About a year or so ago, I resurrected an old film camera from the 1980s, a Konica ...