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25 July, 2025
Autumn Artichokes – An Ekphrastic* Poem (One Shot Story)
Past their prime in a Paris garden. Abandoned artichokes. Wrapped in brown against autumn winds. Forgotten. Inedible. Suitable now for fall arrangements. Or compost. Grieving al...
I’ve posted a number of pieces on this site, all but one featuring images from my Leica M3 with a Zeiss 50 mm F2 lens. That set up has been my primary one for film photography....
24 July, 2025
It wos the camera wot done it – A one shot story
Or to give it its full title, ‘Nothing to do wiv me, guv. It wos the camera wot done it, honest.’ Towards the end of a canal walk in North London on one of the hotte...
For those of us who have used a TLR camera, any invitation to use one again is a wonderful excuse to enjoy it. The mechanisms, the construction, the finish, the enormous waist-l...
23 July, 2025
Rollei Retro 400S in Paris, with a Minolta X700
I recently headed back to Paris for a long weekend, for the first time since I started shooting film again. Having taken photos there many times in the past using my digital gea...
After retiring two years ago from the Art department of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where I managed the photography facilities for over forty years, I have been...
The Palace of Coudenberg (central Brussels), supposedly one of the finest in Europe, was destroyed by fire in 1731 (CE) and the ruins demolished in the late 18th century to make...
22 July, 2025
Kodachrome 25 K14 – My first and last ever 2 rolls and remembering the ContaxG Pages site
In memory of my friend and mentor Lincoln Michaud born February 12th 1940 in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, p[assed away on March 29th 2015 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Kodachrome They...
