This 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…
Holgas are a piece of shit. You don’t want one. Yeah I know, you might THINK you want one, but you don’t. Don’t buy it off Amazon, don’t buy it from your local camera store or even that overpriced package…
Burlington’s South End Arts District ties together a collection of independent art studios, galleries and merchants along the Pine Street corridor. For nearly 30 years, this neighborhood has celebrated the South End Art Hop festival the weekend after Labor Day.…
Just over the bridge from Addison, VT sits the remains of two 18th Century forts: Fort Saint-Frédéric built by the French in 1731 and Fort Crown Point built by the British in 1759. During colonial times and the American Revolutionary…
My first grown-up camera was a Pentax Spotmatic that my mom gave me in my senior year in high school. Before that, I had used various cheap point-and-shoot cameras that used 110 film or, for a brief period, disc film.…
I have a lot of photographer friends, almost all of them shoot in digital exclusively, yet they probably all have a film camera or two in storage somewhere. More a dozen times one of these friends will get in touch…
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…
At Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier, VT lies the cursed tomb of John Erastus Hubbard (1847 – 1899), a wealthy businessman who had a copper statue erected over his resting place. The statue is named “Black Agnes” in local folklore,…
Just across the lake in Plattsburgh, NY was born a roadside delicacy known as “Michigans,” which are a favorite road food for many motorcyclists around here. There are several establishments that have their own variety, my personal favorite is from…
Ethan Allen Tower is an iconic, 40-foot stone tower atop the highest point in Burlington, VT, a site known as “Indian Rock” due to its historical use by the Abenaki to watch for Iroquois and Mohawk boats approaching from the…