Photography & Vintage Film Cameras

The City of Albuquerque provides free entertainment in Old Town throughout the nine days of the Balloon Fiesta.  The lineup in the first ...

I have added a page to my vintage cameras web site for the Mamiyaflex II which I picked up recently at a yard sale in Albuquerque.

Our yearly neighborhood parade provides the opportunity to grab some shots of our neighbors, as well as the chance to experiment with a vari...

The Soviet-era Sukhoi S-26 has been dominating aerobatic competitions since 1984. There were many different light sport aircraft a...

My Patent Etui is performing well, but requires some care in use. As with any of the ruby-windowed cameras, it is important to only ope...

We enjoyed a light plane air show this morning at Albuquerque's Double Eagle Airport.

Making history on film. The photojournalist, David Burnett, is on assignment for Time Magazine , photographing the campaign of Miche...

Well, Krugman is preoccupied with "the markets' sudden turn against emerging economies".  So I guess it is up to me to sort o...

We had the good fortune yesterday to get a tour of the home of the Santa Fe artist, Randall Davey.  The occasion was a celebration of the 3...

The three-month-old snow leopard twins have made their debut at the Rio Grande Zoo.  This is the sixth litter for the Zoo's very produc...

I'm putting aside my photography for a while so I can focus on some other interests.  I'll probably get back to making pictures, bu...

The first camera I bought for myself was an Argus C3.  That would have been about 1958 when I was just out of high school.  Argus was still ...

I just read Nate Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise , so of course that allows me to steal his title. I'm not going to actuall...

I thought Beth Gates Warren did a good job of recovering much of the substance of Edward Weston's early career which he had meticulously...

I am midway through yet another book about Edward Weston, Artful Lives , by Beth Gates Warren.  It is a rather rambling account of his e...

Clicking on an image in any of the preceding posts will display the full-sized image on a black background with the normal Lightbox display ...

I have added a page to my vintage cameras web site on what I've learned about shooting the Flash Bantam. Here are three more Flas...

I've put six rolls of film through my Kodak Flash Bantam, and I'm pretty sure I've got all the issues sorted out.  What a great...