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Last October, I spent a week in Arizona, staying in Tucson, and making day trips to explore other areas.  Bisbee, Arizona was on my bucket list, and I was not disappointed.  It's a mountain town, SE of Tucson, and while originally settled due to the mines nearby, it is now a resort town with lots of arts and local flavor. I've posted a lot of shots from that trip on my Flickr site

Over the past decade, I’ve shot a fair number of rolls of the Film Photography Project’s Svema 100 film. Manufactured in Ukraine, and still in stock from the FPP and its distributors, Svema 100 is a fine-grained, medium contrast film that is worth checking out if you haven’t shot with it. It’s on a tough polyester film base that lies extremely flat in my Epson V700 scanner, and ...

The movers arrived 2 days later - during a downpour, no less. The yard has changed a lot since then!Yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of our move from Ann Arbor, MI to Weaverville, NC.    It was quite a change combining two households, in addition to moving far from Michigan.   Beverley, Adrienne, and I have no regrets about the move, and the last 7 years have really flown b...

St. Francis de Assisi church, Ranchos de Taos, NM 2003.  Kiev 60, Verichrome PanIf you are just starting out with photography as a hobby, there’s a lot of things to learn.    Most of the time, you are learning about the mechanics of the equipment, and coupled with the understanding of the exposure triangle, it can seem like a lot -- at first. If you are coming from the digital w...

A few years ago, I acquired a Kodak Vigilant Six-20. I respooled 120 onto 620 spools, and over the course of 3 years shot 3 rolls with it. The results were always quite good. The Vigilant Six-20 is a 6x9 format camera that came in many versions. The one I used had the best features with the Kodak No. 1 Supermatic Shutter, withs speeds from B, T, and 1-1/400 sec, and apertures