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…
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.…
The Yashica Mat 124G was Yashica’s last and best TLR. Manufactured from 1970 to 1986, when the market was no longer looking for TLR cameras, Yashica built this model to similar standards as a Rolleiflex, figuring that while there might…
Gloucester, MA (pronounced locally as “GLAW-stuh”) is a quintessential New England fishing town on Massachusetts’ North Shore. Site of the film and book “The Perfect Storm” as well as several others, it has beaches and harbors and fisheries and whale…
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…
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…
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…