I got an email from an older step brother one day. “Hey Kev! I’ve got a bunch of old cameras I’m looking to sell, see anything you like?” I think I bought three, one of them was a Yashica-Mat, which…
It’s compact and stylish, and easily one of my favorite cameras to bring with me. It’s easy to take with you, easily one of the smallest SLRs ever made. That was the goal, to create an SLR that could compete…
That’s what I wanted to know when I moved here from New York many years ago. Creemee? Two E’s followed by… two more E’s? People kept referring to them as creemees, more than one person. So it can’t just be…
I was reading reviews of various cameras during my down time at work, and because somehow I’ve confused the term “Camera Review” with “Shopping List,” I decided it would be a good idea to have a super compact camera to…
Just outside of Stowe, VT is a haunted covered bridge that spans the Gold Brook, called the Gold Brook Bridge but referred to locally as Emily’s Bridge. This 50-foot bridge was built in 1844, and local legend states that one…
Across the lake, in neighboring Plattsburgh, NY, a couple of Michiganders named Eula and Garth Otis opened a hot dog stand. The year was 1927, and nearly 100 years later, the “Michigan” remains a regional favorite in and around Plattsburgh.…
Vermont is bordered on the top half of its western edge by Lake Champlain. There is a bridge at the top of the state, a bridge midway down, and for the 85 mile stretch in between the only way to…
If you’ve ever taken a photography class in college, odds are you’ve had one of these in your hands. The Time-honored “perfect student camera” is a title often applied to this camera, as well as the Canon AE-1 and, occasionally,…
My first grown-up camera was a Pentax Spotmatic that my mom gave me in my senior year in high school. Before that, I had used various cheap point-and-shoot cameras that used 110 film or, for a brief period, disc film.…
I’ve been working on a photo study of the “Color of Burlington” where I explore a lot of the colorful and offbeat nature of Vermont’s largest city, and this first installment is the first in a series about the flamboyantly…