In the interest of trying to use the film I have stockpiled, I brought a couple rolls with me to the “No Kings” protest in Charlottesville, Va. earlier this year. I used the Mamiya 6 and a 150mm telephoto lens (equivalent to 90mm on a 35mm camera). Out of 24 frames I had about 4 that were good enough to keep. (Although if I were being exceptionally strict with myself I would have only kept 1 or 2 photos but then, where’s the fun in that?)
These photos are from two rolls of 35mm film that I shot throughout the first few months of the year. The issue is that they weren’t shot sequentially, meaning that I have frames from as early as January and as late as April. But I finished them in April and so that’s where they fall on the list. I shot these on my Leica M4-P using one lens or another from my set of M-Hexanon lenses, produced by Konica for its electronic rangefinder back in the early 2000s. Photos were taken in Charlottesville and New Orleans.
I went through a bit of a rut earlier in the year and so this roll has just three keepers and even these are…not great. But I still have them just to mark where I was in February: Bowdoin College and Miami.
I took these photos during a brief stop in New Orleans for an event. I spent a day wandering and you can more or less trace my route from the scenes I have here.
Seen on US-29 passing through Madison, Va.
Shot with a Panasonic LX10 point and shoot. Edited in Lightroom.
I shot my second roll of the year during a brief stop in Grinnell, Iowa, where I gave a talk at the college. These photos are of Grinnell’s downtown, which is quite charming. You’ll notice that there is no one on the street. That is because it was 10 degrees and I was very committed to taking photos during the 48 hours or so I was in town. Once again, these were taken with the Mamiya 6 using Kodak Gold film.
Doing something a little bit different this year when it comes to sharing photos. Rather than organize by place, I'm going to just share the keepers from each roll, in chronological order. This roll of Kodak Gold is the first roll of film I shot of 2026, in downtown Los Angeles where I was visiting for work. I used my Mamiya 6MF which, unfortunately, has a light leak that I need to fix before I head out for a trip abroad in a few weeks.
I have been sitting on hundreds of photos to either develop, scan or edit. My goal for the next month is to both process those frames and post more often on this blog. And we are getting started with these photos, which I took all the way back in December. I used my Leica M4-P, a 50mm lens and Kodak Tri-X.
Longtime followers know that I spend most of my Christmas break in Charleston, South Carolina, visiting my family and enjoying the warmer weather. I took some photos (as usual) and here are the ones worth sharing. Locations include Charleston proper, Mount Pleasant and Sullivan’s Island.
Last October, I gave a talk at Syracuse University. I always try to give myself some time to walk around a place and take pictures, and I managed to carve a few hours out of the trip to do that in Syracuse. These are the keepers from two rolls of Kodak Gold 200, shot with a Mamiya 6 medium format camera.
