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18 November, 2025
Nikon 50mm f1.8 AI Lens – No. 1761389
The Nikon f1.8 50mm lens has always been well regarded. In pre-digital days, a ‘nifty fifty’ would have been the first lens owned by many photographers, mounted on a...
17 November, 2025
5 Frames with my Nikon F2 Eye
The great comments on my first article in 35mmc have encouraged me to follow up with another one. Anyone who has read my first article knows that I’m an old white man from...
17 November, 2025
Paris Fashion Week with My New Crush: a Pre-War Leica
People-watching is one of the joys of urban life, perhaps nowhere more than in Paris, a city that I love but visit rarely. Quite by chance a recent trip unfolded during the autu...
16 November, 2025
On Prizes and Awards (a Long and Tiring Musing)
Prizes and awards are ubiquitous also in the photography world. There is an award for everything, and I wouldn’t be suprised to discover an award for the best photo award ...
15 November, 2025
5 Frames with Canon AE1 in California Wine Country
In 1993, I was working for Dan Gurney’s All American Racers racing team. The team was in the midst of an historic run of successes in the IMSA GTP series, dominating by winning ...
15 November, 2025
Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...
14 November, 2025
The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story
For decades, it was established in 1963, not only the students of the Liceo Classico on the other side of Via Venezia, but almost all the inhabitants of my hometown, paid a visi...
