Category: Stories

I bought an old camera outfit at a thrift store in Lenoir City, Tennessee. Inside one of the accessory cases, somebody had written Lieutenant William J. Maddox. There was a photo of an Asian woman tucked in with the gear. His father had served in Japan. I did some research and called the son, William…

I was thrifting at the KARM store in Knoxville, which benefits East Tennessee homeless ministries, and I found a seventy four year old Zeiss Ikon camera with Nikon documentation and an old Weston Master 2 light meter. Under a hundred bucks. I ran the serial number and it looks like a Contax III from around…

I watched two YouTube channels I subscribe to quit this week. Not because of the algorithm. Because of the comments. Negative comments drove them off. I have some credentials here. Thirty six years in radio across America. Radio was the original social media. Listener phone calls were instantaneous and brutal, and that was before the…

Back in Boston. Old stomping grounds. I was on the radio at 94.5 WZLX back in 91 and 92, so this town and I go way back. I went out shooting street photography at night during the Santa Lucia parade in the North End. Fujifilm X-H2 with the very inconspicuous silver 16mm f/2.8, which is…

I posted a photo on Instagram of somebody on their cell phone. A commenter accused me of shooting fish in a barrel and told me to go for harder candids. I thought about it. And he might have been right. People buried in their phones are the fish in the barrel. My standard is this:…

I got the X100VI and you do not. Nanny nanny boo boo. You got taken off the waiting list. Okay, I am kidding. Mostly. It is fun. It is tactile. It is solid. It is perfect. It hangs right there, and the chicks dig the retro. I am going to shoot straight out of camera…