Last year I picked up a Kodak Retina IIa, part of Kodak’s popular folding camera line up. It’s got a few features like a frame counter and a rangefinder, but it’s simple compared to some of the later ones which have a meter. I don’t really stand by any of these shots as great work but when I developed the photos I was shocked by how sharp some of them were. I think this camera is a so-called ‘type 150’ (I think these ‘types’ were in-house numbers that were never used in period), made between…

I got a question about my sketchbook pages recently, and decided to post my answer. I use Procreate to draw my daily drawings, and each month I use a new Procreate file with a paper texture from Infinite Pulp by True Grit Texture Supply and my watermark. Each daily drawing is sketched on its own transparent layer (or multiple layers that are eventually merged into one), named with the date, and locked. I then copy that final daily drawing layer, and paste it into a different Procreate file. My…

On Monday, I came back to my day job from a weeklong vacation wherein we did birthdaversary stuff and packing / moving related activities. I rarely if ever talk about work here but one of the first things out the gate when I logged in was that I apparently missed a companywide meeting on how Claude use is now mandatory for all departments, and I was going to have to watch the missed session on how to implement it into my workflow. On top of that, the company has repositioned itself as an…

artist-statement: Raven (she/it) is a photographer based out of Portland, Oregon. She loves chasing light and making images feel like film or like something out of a fantasy novel. Raven is passionate about art being in the commons, and so she releases her work under a creative commons license. Her images don’t use so-called “AI”. She no longer posts on Instagram. Her website, ravenwinters.org, hosts her photography, blog, and other interesting pages. Usually shooting with a FUJIFILM X-T4, she…

A Glimpse of the Empire State – New York, New York After two hours of exploring the city at night with the Leica M 246, I started heading back. Walking east, I crossed Fifth Avenue and noticed this scene. It may just look like a jumble of skyscrapers like the rest of Manhattan, but there’s something else going on. Do you notice that pointy antenna near the center of the photo? That’s the top of the world-famous and historic Empire State Building. It’s nearly lost, sandwiched between other…

Laowa 6mm F2 MFT with RolfieI spent a day with Ian Rolfe to review his latest lens purchase, the Laowa 6mm F2 ultra-wide lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras.

I love using vintage lenses on my Fujifilm cameras. I have a bunch of them, mostly ones I picked up for cheap. Over the last couple of days, I wanted to use three specific M42 mount telephoto lenses: Helios 44-2, Vivitar 135mm f/2.8, and Cavalier 200mm f/3.5. I picked up the M42-FX adapter from eBay 10 years ago for under $20. The photos below were created over the last week or so—mostly just yesterday and the day before—using these three lenses. The Helios 44-2 is a legendary Soviet-era 58mm…

Working to become drift compatible with this chameleon I met earlier in the week.

Krissy and I didn’t attend Worldcon with the intention of purchasing art, but then we went into the art show and saw these bronze pieces from sculptor Vincent Villafranca: And then we thought, “You know what? Those would look great in our offices.” So now we own these. The one on the top is mine. The other one is Krissy’s. It’s not entirely surprising she would pick the piece that has a creature on top of a pile of skulls. Also, these bronze sculptures? Heavy as fuck. Amazing! But heavy. They…

T-shirt says it all. Selfie a day for a year, day 17: Sep 4, 2026 edition.

There’s a thing on the internet called ‘Septemblog’ where the idea is to post on every day of the month. Last month was ‘Blaugust’. You get the idea.Shoutout to the originator and architect of this theme & scheme.I’m going to use it to get my photography back on track! 3 trees & fog We were up in the interior hills of the island Santiago in Cabo Verde, Africa.I decided not to overthink the editing as this photo is only going on my blog and not in a magazine or gallery. The composition is…

Lutz Bacher Pizza Party sign installation view, 2018, NYU Steinhardt, via @blankforms_ via @growthandculture, 2021 I love people who see the sign for the Lutz Bacher Pizza Party on the 6th Floor and say, this needs to be saved for the future. Screenshot And then it circulates to someone else who cares for it, along with the other sign from Bacher’s visit to NYU for her 2018 show at 80WSE, and catalogues them against their Heriz. Screenshot And then you make a post about artworks with arrows,…

In about 2010 I bought a Pentax ME on eBay. I’d never seen one before, and it was affordable at about 20 bucks. And then it turned out to be small and light, something I could easily carry all day. I loved it instantly, and it became one of a small number of cameras I use most. I didn’t understand then that I wasn’t falling for the Pentax ME specifically. Rather, I fell for small, light, aperture-priority 35mm SLRs. The ME was just the first one I found. I figured this out when a reader gave me…

An industrial ventilator on the exterior of a warehouse in Melissa, Texas. The post Ventilator appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

I woke up this morning to the news that Fujifilm announced a new lens last night: the Fujinon XF 400mm f/4.5 R LM OIS WR. This is a long-telephoto prime for wildlife, sports, and aviation photography, with a $3,199 MSRP (in America). It has a little less reach but with a 2/3 stop larger maximum aperture than the Fujinon 500mm f/5.6. I remember when Fujifilm didn’t offer any prime lenses longer than the 90mm f/2. Then, in 2018, the Fujinon 200mm f/2 was released, but it was a big flop—not…

As longtime readers of this site will know, I’ve been pretty committed to using Moleskine sketchbooks. For years, I’ve been keeping one going at almost all times, for drawing and sketching whenever the mood strikes– sometimes even sticking to a habit of daily drawing for a year or more. I built up a stash of … Continue reading Sketchbook Switch: SO Many to Choose From! →

Many, many years ago I documented a larp inspired by Justit Cronin’s books.

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

“approx 22 x 30 inches” As a witness to the historic 2023 rupture in the Pomponiverse, when fifteen people at Sotheby’s collectively decided to pay $279,000 for a life-size painting by Jacques Barthélémy De Lamarre, one of dozens known to exist, of a tiny, bare-ass dog “parfoit dit Pompon,” the utterly undocumented “favorite” of Marie Antoinette, I cannot stay silent about what is happening here. Because here is a picture of Pompon on a 19th century papier-mâché tray in NYC “being offered in…

I’m travelling to Paris and London and I’m trying to both sketch much more and journal more consistently. The first leg of the trip is a four day stint in Paris and I just completed it. Here are the sketches that I made: 5 minute sketch at the airport I was tired and this came out wonky but I don’t mind as it captures the moment well and I had less than 10 minutes to get it done. Stillman and Birn pocket beta watercolour and fineliner. Sketch of the wonderful lunch at my favourite cafe:…

2026-08-23Hello!In the build up to Day 200, I've been trying to pull so many different resources from around the internet. It's looking like I'm going to be promoting less stuff this time around, but with more detail and context.Combined with other life obligations (and a possible case of burnout?) I've fallen a day behind. The usual solution to that would have been a photowalk. Problem is: I'm out of ideas.This time, I need something exciting if I want to create original work that's still…

Tiles form a Lone Star flag in Downtown Galveston, Texas. The post Texas Tiles appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

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Forkalyst gig at Spilles in Düsseldorf, Himmelfahrtskommando near the Loreley, Villa Hügel with Florian, Folkerdey, and various things in between. (60 photos)

same echeveria, one whole summer apart. those stalks just kept going.

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Art Nouveau, as an architectural style, is quite rare in New York, which is odd if you think about it. The style was popular in the 1890s and up to World War I, which is a period when NYC had an enormous building boom. You’d expect some link there. Instead, you have to search for any examples at all. I’m sure there’s a rational reason – or reasons – but maybe the answer is as simple as architectural styles are styles and so vary by society, by location, by time, and so on. Maybe developers and…

Large handmade pigs on sticks! Handmade and sewn pigs used as parade staffs by children. Likely in a school parade. All original, circa 1940 - 1950. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Some photos from our local comic, culture, and all things nerdy expo – taken on the Canon EOS M6 and Viltrox 23mm f/1.4 during a rainy afternoon in downtown Jackson, Michigan.