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The Stylus Epic
I decided I really needed to put more film through my Olympus Stylus Epic so I loaded a roll of Kodak UltraMax 400 and carried the camera in my pocket for a week, with walks through Old Town and the...
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Close to Home
This wicker chair has been sitting for months beside the road a half block from my house; I pass by it daily when I'm walking the dog. I have made pictures of the chair with several cameras. This is...
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Small, But Mighty
The Olympus 35RC looks like a traditionally designed rangefinder camera, but it is scaled down to palm size while still making full-frame 35mm images. The shutter-priority auto-exposure is reliably...
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Inside and Out
I suspect a lot of people, when they first encounter a Minolta Hi-Matic 7s wonder if the fully automatic exposure system is really going to work. It just seems too easy to simply press the shutter...
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Lost and Found
I found these in a neglected corner of my hard-drive. They were made around twenty years ago at a field west of the Organ Mountains. No info attached to the photos -- they were likely made with the...
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One of My Hunters
Another image found in the recesses of my hard drive. I doubt I'll ever find the negative as it was made many years before I got my negative files in some kind of proper and retrievable order. There...
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A Rough Neighborhood
Some media attention has been given lately to the discovery and dating of the preserved footprints of humans and extinct animals in the dry bed of an ancient lake in White Sands National Monument....
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Critical Writing about Photography
Good writing about photography is a somewhat rare commodity. One place it survives is in the Photo-Booth on the New Yorker magazine website. The most recent article there is an essay by Geraldo...
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The Ulrimate 35mm Folder
The Vito III was a contemporary of Kodak's Retina line and the last folding camera made by Voigtlander. I was attracted to the Vito III by my previous long familiarity with its model II...
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Back to Basics
I have been wanting to get back to shooting some of my simple cameras, so I thought to start with my Vredeborch Felica. Though hardly bigger than my Ansco Panda, it sports adjustments for distance,...
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Coming to Grips with Classic Kitsch
I only shot a roll or two of film in my Anscoflex II when I acquired it in 2012. The camera was interesting because of its unique design features, but in operation it seemed a little too simple for...
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More from the Felica
The Felica is compact and easy to carry. The focusing and exposure adjustments are limited, but adequate for dealing with a pretty good range of circumstances. I haven't yet made much use of the...
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The Albuquerque Rail Yards
I visited the Rail Yards which hosts a craft and farmers' market on Sundays. Margaret was looking for some fresh corn and garlic, but my interest is always in exploring the massive old locomotive...
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Back to the Rail Yards (and beyond)
There is some intense construction activity at this large building behind those which accommodate the Sunday farmers' market. I believe it to be the one destined to house the new film-making school....
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Encounters in Old Town
The first thing I noticed strolling into the Plaza Vieja on Friday morning was some very loud music and this dog sitting beside the gazebo. The vest indicated he was a service dog and it appeared one...
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Broken Boxes
The large fabric and metal sculpture near the entrance to the current exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum drew a lot of favorable attention from visitors. All of the pieces exhibited were expertly...
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Photography at Museums
I have made a lot of photographs in and around museums. That was brought home to me not long ago when I started following and contributing to the Analog Museums group on Flickr. To start that I did a...
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My Story
Film photographer, Chip Greenberg, has done a marvelous job of hosting monthly Zoom meetings of our New Mexico Film Photographers group. For our September meeting he asked me to do a presentation...
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Spanish Broom
We enjoyed a flamenco performance in Old Town's Plaza Don Luis by the Spanish Broom group on Saturday. The dancers, singers and guitarists all performed at a high level of skill. They will do...
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In the Neighborhood
Unsettled Fall weather has often been a problem for Albuquerque's annual Balloon Fiesta. This year, though, it looks like good flying weather for all nine days of the event. I thought I might not see...
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Spanish Broom 2
As I have said many times before, what I enjoy the most about Albuquerque's annual Balloon Fiesta is the afternoon musical performances which take place in Old Town. On Saturday we had the opportunity...
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Baila Baila
The folk dance group, Baila Baila, puts on an elaborate show each year in Old Town during the Balloon Fiesta with children in traditional Mexican costumes and a lot of makeup. The large number of...
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Want a Leica?
I got an email this morning advertising another big OstLicht Auction with 164 listings for Leicas, etc. The prices seem astounding, particularly as many of the models are pretty recent. There are...
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Remembering and Forgetting
I don't recall now why I originally placed this post about John Collier Jr. in my Everything Else blog nine years ago. This great American photographer certainly deserves a place here in my blog about...
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