I love shooting medium format. At present, I have seven such cameras, two of them are Holgas, one is an SLR, one is a (working!) folder from the 1930s, and the other three are twin lens reflexes. Rolleiflex cameras are…
When I first got back into film photography a number of years ago, people would ask “Do you develop your own? Do you have a darkroom?” I’d tell ’em that my darkroom gear is in a tote in the basement,…
I moved here from New York in the 1990’s, and I noticed two things: The people on this side of the lake were almost suspiciously friendly, and they were all nutso for maple. Maple? Really? I mean I know Vermont…
One of my favorite subjects to photograph appears to be my motorbike. This just seems to happen, I’m out wandering and shooting, then I head back to where I parked my bike and think “Hey that looks kinda cool, think…
First produced in 1972, the OM-1 is a fully-mechanical 35mm SLR designed by Olympus’ Yoshihisa Maitani (the “M” in “OM). Originally it was the M-1, made to rival the similarly-named Leica M-1. However, after Leica put up a stink about…
The Church Street Marketplace was built in 16 months, in 1980-81, after being first conceived in 1958. In 1971 and 72 they held street fairs on Church Street, and diverted traffic around four blocks of the street to accommodate pedestrian-only…
Last 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…
The Yashica Electro 35 was a very popular rangefinder camera produced between 1966 and 1977. The Electro 35 was one of the best selling consumer cameras of the 60’s and 70’s. Even Peter Parker used one when he worked for…
The Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically-radical puppet theater company started in 1963 in New York City, using rod-puppets (some as tall as 15 feet or more) to tell their stories in parade and pageant. The company moved to…