6 December, 2025
Vintage cars, bikes and a bus ride
Like a lot us from the older generation, meaning the geriatric brigade, brought up on milk, delivered to your door, red telephone boxes for phone calls and double Decker buses, ...
6 December, 2025
Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar
After a three hour drive and a two hour flight I needed a drink – I say ‘a’ euphemistically: beer, nihonshu (“sake”), red wine and whisky hit the spot but set the tone for the f...
5 December, 2025
A Summer of Street Portraits on Film
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife,...
4 December, 2025
Horseman 980 – A Seasonal Essay
Most people coming into film photography start with the camera and then try to figure out how to scan the results. I went the other way. I shot film for 30 years, finally switch...
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 ...
22 November, 2025
Mexico City with a Travel Camera (Olympus 35 RC)
Last spring the opportunity came up for a family trip to Mexico City. A week before our departure, I acquired an Olympus 35 RC from a camera show. I thought this would be useful...
19 November, 2025
A new old lens at No Kings Day protests
I admit. I went down the rabbit hole trying to pick out ‘the’ Leica 50mm glass to put on my Leica M4-P. I bought the camera some years back from a friend and he included a Voigt...
19 November, 2025
Saturday Night Fight Fever
On October 18, I was ringside to shoot the European Boxing Union‘s female super-lightweight European title fight. The crown vas vacant and the two contenders were both Ita...
