First produced in 1972, the OM-1 is a fully-mechanical 35mm SLR designed by Olympus’ Yoshihisa Maitani (the “M” in “OM). Originally it was the M-1, made to rival the similarly-named Leica M-1. However, after Leica put up a stink about…
The Church Street Marketplace was built in 16 months, in 1980-81, after being first conceived in 1958. In 1971 and 72 they held street fairs on Church Street, and diverted traffic around four blocks of the street to accommodate pedestrian-only…
Last summer we had plans. I had negotiated an extra week of vacation with my employer and I was going to DO things. I had spent too many summers wishing I had done more and traveled more, but this one…
The Yashica Electro 35 was a very popular rangefinder camera produced between 1966 and 1977. The Electro 35 was one of the best selling consumer cameras of the 60’s and 70’s. Even Peter Parker used one when he worked for…
The Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically-radical puppet theater company started in 1963 in New York City, using rod-puppets (some as tall as 15 feet or more) to tell their stories in parade and pageant. The company moved to…
On a recent trip to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, I paid a visit to the Museum of Everyday Life, 2 hours northeast of Burlington in Glover. I knew nothing about the place, only that it was mentioned on Atlas…
Using money inherited from the Vanderbilt estate, Dr William Webb and his wife Eliza Vanderbilt Webb created Shelburne Farms in 1886 and a model agricultural estate. In 1972 it was incorporate as a nonprofit educational organization by the Webbs’ descendants,…
The Canonet is a coupled-rangefinder, leaf-shuttered camera made by Canon from the early 60’s to the early 80″s. “The Poor Mans’s Leica” is what they called it (more specifically this QL17 GIII model). Know what else they called a “Poor…
Normally I avoid screwing around with my film photography post-production, I prefer my photos to have their native colors and native grayscale inherent to the filmstock I shot them on. The exception would be to touch-up the dust specs that…