I had been shooting a Holga camera here and there, it was fun, but I wanted to explore the world of medium format photography in earnest, with an actual camera, not a plastic toy. So I professed my intentions on…
This summer has been super rainy, just all-the-time rain. So much rain that much of Vermont’s valleys have been flooding, including our capitol city. We made the national news for a minute, maybe you heard about it. There were a…
A friend of mine is a pro photographer. I have a number of those, of course, and they always shoot digital for the most part. So as we’re chatting cameras at a burlesque show he was working at (as a…
Street Pan 400 is a B&W film that was originally used in Belgian traffic surveillance. Resurrected and put back into production in 2016 by Japan Camera Hunter, it’s a film with good contrast and an extended red sensitivity which gives…
Taking filmy pics with your old timey grandpa camera is super fun. You get in touch with your surroundings and see them with a new set of eyes searching for content in a way you might not have experienced before.…
In the rolling green hills just south of Burlington lives the Shelburne Museum. It’s a collector’s museum of folk art and Americana that’s been a part of Vermont’s cultural landscape since 1947. Founded by Electra Havermeyer Webb, a wealthy New…
I was at work one day when a friend/client came in with something in a weathered leather case. At the end of our service he handed me the case with “and this is for you.” This is a particularly gifty…
Mount Philo State Park, in Charlotte, VT, is a local favorite hike. The well-groomed trails climb 968 feet, making it a moderately-easy hike in under an hour. When looking for a bit of outdoorsy time but don’t want to be…
Just across the lake in Upstate New York, an area rich with history, is the rebuilt Fort Ticonderoga. Built by the French in the mid 1700’s it was a significant fortress situated at the narrows of Lake Champlain, playing a…
As I’m planning a move from Vermont to the city, it occurs to me that I’m going to need to take stronger security measures into account once again. I presently have secure places to park my bike, and while there…