Photography & Vintage Film Cameras

Here and Now Every year I await Spring's arrival with increasing impatience, imagining the pictures I will make of it. Somehow, it alwa...

close encounters

Archaeology There is an old dump near the river with acres of glass bottles and jars. The surface is an undulating mosaic of shiny shards. ...

back at the river

At the River I wasn't close enough to these geese to get good photos, but you get the idea. I was surprised at how early they had nested...

Accessorizing I've added a couple pages to the Vintage Cameras section of my web site, one on accessory rangefinders , and another on li...

It is hard to understand how we survived the Cold War years with the vast proliferation of these weapons. I went back this time to t...

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History I went to the newly moved,re-opened, and renamed National Museum of Nuclear ...

Winter's End Not much snow in the Sandia Mountains this year. I hiked up an arroyo to near the top of the first tier of ridges. Didn...

Backyard Drama Queen

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

Clash of the Classics FED 1g Kiev IIa I thought I would try out a new blog feature, a poll. The subject as seen at top right is people'...

I spent some time this evening going through the blog. There have been almost 200 posts over nearly three years. Time for a break. PS: Wi...

Sunday morning at UNM This is the first color I have shot in one of my Brownie Hawkeye Flash box cameras, and maybe only the seco...

Yerba Mansa (Anemopsis californica) One of my goals for this Spring is to cultivate some wildflowers. I've ordered some seeds and some ...

just practicing I can't claim to have mastered my plate cameras, but I am feeling more comfortable with them. I think we are due for ab...