October 2025

Urban Oddities

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I love driving around early on a Sunday morning to hunt for subjects. There isn’t much traffic, and you see the results of the previous week. These photos were from such a morning near to my home in Westfield, NJ. The skeleton was hanging out behind a store, obviously having been used for a Halloween decoration. I loved both the more documentary-type photo as the more close-up version. While these photos are all Olympus EM-1 digital photos, it would probably have been great if I had taken my pinhole camera and got about 3-4” from the skeleton’s face. The other […]

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Urban Rail Shadows

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Walk around urban scenes and it’s amazing what you can find. Early in the morning gives you more options, as the shadows are longer. These are just a sampling of what you can find from subjects as mundane as stair and railings. I really loved the way the shadows fell on the stairs in these image and you can see how walking around the subjects yields great photos. Nothing special, just observational photography

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Cemetary Pinhole

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Very old cemeteries are beginning to appeal to me more and more. I think you can make lovely photos in cemeteries, but the older ones, with overarching trees, offer lots of photo opportunities. The sterility of modern, giant fields of headstones don’t do it for me. But the very old ones, which can be tough to find, are great. As for technique, my current favorites are pinhole and black-and-white Infrared. These photos are all pinhole taken on a Reality-so-Subtle 6×6 camera with Kentmere100 film. I am increasingly using this film, as it has good tonality, decent reciprocity curves, and a

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Abstract Architecture

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Abstracts, or at lest abstract-oriented photos, are always appealing to photographers who aspire to be artists. Those of us who are incompetent at a physical art form like painting or drawing see photography as a way to find appealing, sensuous images. For me, i have always loved to find lovely images from otherwise mundane objects and scenes. While the allure of the National Park “STAND HERE FOR BEST PHOTO” way of making photos appeals to many, it’s not me. These two images show what you can find if you just look up. They are of the support beams for a

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