Photography & Vintage Film Cameras

The best part of Albuquerque's Balloon Fiesta for me is actually not the balloons, but the Flamenco dance performances in the Old Town P...

I've been watching the restoration of the 2926 locomotive for the ten years we've been in Albuquerque.  It looks like all the parts ...

Tecolote Mesa is fifteen miles west of Grants, New Mexico.  The name is associated with a geological feature on the mesa's rim though...

I first visited the petroglyph site at La Cieneguilla shortly after we moved to Albuquerque in the Fall of 2008.  I was pleased sometime lat...

The FED 1g is the last in a long line of Barnack-style Leica copies produced in the Soviet Union.  Mine, according to the serial number, w...

Margaret Rio Grande Bosque B-29 Engines

My Soviet Leica-copy Fed-1g has an accurate rangefinder and shutter, and a terrific Tessar-type lens. It also has an odd problem with film...

This is my first try at stand development. I was pleased that it turned out reasonably well using Tmax 100 in Rodinal at 1:160 for 75 minut...

UNM

I had one of these briefly while still in high school. It was slightly earlier than this 1951 model. Mine was about ten years old at the t...

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque

Old Town Albuquerque Albuquerque has a pretty tenuous grasp on Spring right now. Still, this Mariachi group made an appearance at several p...