27 July, 2023
Nothing New Except to Me – Another Leica Story
Working as a pro for the last 50 years I never had the extra cash for a Leica. Any time I had ‘extra’ cash it went towards my work gear, lighting or Nikon film camer...
21 June, 2023
Yashica Lynx-14: The Camera that Came Home
In an unforgivable moment of weakness, I once tried to sell this lovely Yashica Lynx-14 on "the 'Bay.” Don’t know what came over me. I’ve always loved low-light pictures and the...
In October 2022, Kate and I decided to spend a long Columbus Day weekend in Peterborough, New Hampshire. There, for more than 25 years, Monadnock Art has organized free tours of...
I'm more of an SLR guy, but it was inevitable that I too would have to get a taste of the rangefinder world. For me, it started with a "Revue 400 SE". Revue is like a private l...
1 November, 2022
5 Frames with a Bronica ETRS: Small Town Panoramas – By Lee Hiers
My brother-in-law recently gifted me a Bronica ETRS that he had received as a gift from his step-father. While his step-father had the camera, he had let the grandkids play wit...
One Christmas, early in my marriage, I ended up spending Christmas at my in-laws house, which was in a different city from the one I lived in. Due to a mix-up caused by the logi...
Sometimes the urge to do something out of the norm comes over me from out of the blue; like stopping at the Salvation Army that I drive by literally every day, yet rarely giving...
14 April, 2021
My Approach to Portrait Photography on Film – By Ken Wagner
It is common today that women are photographed sexy and slightly undressed to attract attention to the subject, photographer or both. There is so much of this sort of photograph...