I don’t ordinarily offer restaurant reviews on this website, however, I make an exception for Richmond’s “Gwar Bar.” This place is nutso! You may recognize the name of the band “Gwar” but if not it’s worth a Googling! Gwar is…
Agecroft Hall & Gardens museum is located on 23 acres overlooking the James River in the neighborhood of Windsor Farms in Richmond, Virginia. It’s a 15th century English Tudor manor house that was dismantled and brought to Richmond in 1926,…
Summertime festivals are among my favorite things. I’m not talking about those weekend events where you pay to go camping and watch live music and get stoned and buy bead bracelets and hundred-dollar T-shirts. Those aren’t my jam, I’m talking…
New to film photography? Inherited Dad’s old Minolta? Found a cool old rangefinder at a flea market that you wanna try out? Or maybe you bought a Holga in the neighborhood hipster store and are thinking of branching out into…
Washington D.C. is a popular tourist destination in my area, you might have heard of it. Dozens of monuments, 80+ museums, there’s a lotta scenery and a lotta history. I had some time off for Labor Day weekend, and in…
It was my birthday weekend, and I was asked “So what would you like to do this weekend?” Hmm, I wanted to go someplace and take pictures, so I had to think of a place that’s got something worth taking…
Taking the family to Disneyland and shooting photos of the day(s) is a tradition more than half a century old. There will be photo albums filled with trip mementos, a slideshow on a makeshift projector screen when friends come over.…
When my father passed I inherited a few cameras from him. A Roleiflex TLR, a Pentax Spotmatic, a couple of Polaroids, some shelf decoration classics, and this Kodak point-and-shoot. When I got it I thought it looked familiar, as in…
Richmond, Virginia was the capitol of the Confederate States of America, which lasted all of four years and dissolved with the conclusion of the American Civil War. As such, this entire region is rich with areas of historical significance associated…