12 June, 2026
Travails of two Leica M3s
I wrote in another post in the past about how I came to want a Leica M3. In my career whenever I had a little extra cash for gear I bought what would make my job easier. When it...
6 June, 2026
Airports on Delta 100
Beginning in the late 1980’s and through to 2013 I traveled almost weekly in my job shooting travel features for a large magazine based in the South of the US. I didn’t have a m...
10 March, 2026
A Blizzard Stirs Memories
One of my fondest early memories as a New Yorker was a blizzard in the mid-1990s that brought the metropolis to a halt. My future husband and I were out with friends at a play a...
9 December, 2025
Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder
In 2025, it feels like everyone has an opinion on film photography. For some, it is nostalgia, for others it is a TikTok trend, for a few it is a fully fledged cult. Somewhere b...
3 December, 2025
Night Shooting on Halloween with a Leica M3 and a Contax T2
Halloween, 2025 has been on my calendar as a shooting opportunity for a couple of months. In NYC the scale of the revelry is epic, including a giant parade in the West Village ...
27 November, 2025
5 Frames, No Kings
I was excited to bring my M3 to the recent No Kings protest in Manhattan in October. I don’t have a huge amount of experience shooting ‘documentary’ style to ...
25 October, 2025
What do the film “Das Boot,” a Porsche 911, a Leica M3, the Bavarian lakes and mountains, and my wife Dani have in common?
This fantastic Sunday afternoon, captured on Kodak Gold 200, was one of those rare gifts where everything aligned perfectly: the weather, the scenery, the car – and, naturally, ...
9 September, 2025
My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...