This is my latest vintage camera – the Kodak Duex. The Kodak Duex is a very unusal 620-format camera with a helical telescoping lens cylinder made from bakelite, creating photos with a negative size of 6×4.5cm. It was only made for a very short time from 1940-42 at a cost of $6, approximately $167 in [...]
My photo “Dancing across Broadway” has long been a favorite of mine and so I was delighted when I got a request from Amanda Spencer if she could use it as inspiration for one of her watercolors… …and here it is! Amanda did a great job with this picture – I really love the way she [...]
China officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups in the country, a fact that is easy to overlook when one travels through the major population centers which look dominantly Han. A trip into the countryside very often reveals a different picture, with smaller villages sporting very different faces and sometimes also different attire from the typical Chinese [...]
Richard Howe spent much of 2006 walking the streets of Manhattan, taking photos of ALL the street corners in town. I love these kinds of projects that take on a mysterious life of their own. On first thought it sounds like a ridiculous idea. A photo of every street corner? But once you click your [...]
Just stumbled over this one: Google now hosts scans of more than a million LIFE photos from the 1800s up to today. From a first glance, there are endless opportunities for research and just idle Googleing. Hundreds of images from the Yangtze in the 1940s, the San Francisco Conference, historic shots of the National Parks, [...]
Over on Sparkletack is a post about an amazing photo of the Bay Area… it’s an aerial photo taken in 1949 that shows not only all of San Francisco from 12000 feet, but in addition also stretches out all the way to Mt. Shasta. We’ve just been up at Mt. Shasta and it’s a looong [...]
Here’s another shot from the Mission of San Juan Bautista. There is a beautiful rose garden near the bell tower of the mission with some of the largest roses I’ve ever seen. Some of the flowers were as big as soup plates. Photo taken with Kodak Medalist on Ilford Delta 100. Click for a larger [...]
On our road trip to east-central Nevada in 2006 we stopped at the Cathedral Gorge State Park for a break from driving and a little hike. The park is in a very arid landscape where the sediment formations of an ancient lake bed have been shaped into grotesque towers and narrow canyons by millions of [...]
Still re-scanning old negatives… In late 2006 we traveled through large chunks of Nevada, mostly on Highway 50 and 93. This picture is from somewhere south of Ely in east-central Nevada, where mountain ranges rise to the east and west of the highway. The main roads in this part of the country are excellent, but [...]
I’ve posted a different photo from the Spruce Tree House in the Mesa Verde National Park before, but during my recent re-scanning campaign I found this very nice shot of the same place. I have fond memories of our stay in Mesa Verde. It was late in the season and some of the sights were [...]