One thing I’ve learned from flipping through page after page of negatives I had filled, is that I seem to be drawn to using water as a subject in my composition. I see photos of water splashing against a rock…
This is another one of those cameras billed as an ideal starter camera for photo novices. This was my third camera acquired after getting back into film photography, behind the Pentax Spotmatic and the Pentax K1000. I decided this was…
Apple picking is a quintessential Northeastern Autumnal activity. It gets you out into the nature (because there are no orchards in the city), picking more apples than you will know what to do with, and it gives you plenty of…
I enjoy how light and fog play together around dusk on a foggy day.
When I was in my late teens I discovered photography through the lens of a Pentax Spotmatic, with the help of my friend Bob and his Pentax K1000. I was always hanging with Bob back then. He rode a skateboard,…
Mid March is considered late winter around here, and the beginning of “mud season.” The air is still a little brisk, and there are still patches of snow on the ground in the shaded areas (and mud in all the…
I’ve been working on a photo study of the “Color of Burlington” where I explore a lot of the colorful and offbeat nature of Vermont’s largest city, and this first installment is about the flamboyantly non-traditional house colors in the…
When driving through Jeffersonville, VT we like to stop at this farmstand for raw milk, on this trip one of the cows heard visitors and wandered over to say hello. We sat and visited with her for a bit until…
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…