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This was my first roll of Lomography Potsdam Kino.  All winter, I’d been looking forward to shooting it.  Opening the development tank, I was upset to find the negatives festooned with these odd patterns.   I should have known better.  While loading the film on the developing reel, it stuck,Continue Reading

Sticky

Posh folks use “winter” as a verb, as in “We wintered in Palm Springs.”  Although my unplanted sweet potato vines and geraniums do not count as posh items, I didn’t want to see them die, having never been properly seated in pots.  I bought them along with 30 or moreContinue Reading

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Buying on eBay is an exercise in probability—that is, at some point, you are probably going to buy a dud. We’ve all been there—a “mint” lens with noticeable fungus, a supposedly working camera with a frozen film advance, and the ultimate sales pitch “I don’t know much about cameras, but…” OneContinue Reading

What does a photograph mean?  I asked myself this question while recuperating and looking over images of past gardening seasons.   When not quite able to play in the dirt, yet longing to do so, those images gave me a sense of place, of being there.  While many looking atContinue Reading