Delayed Gratification Photography

Back in May 2009, Mike Johnston of “The Online Photographer” wrote a controversial blog post entitled The Leica as Teacher. (The URL slug of the post, a-leica-year, suggests an earlier title that I almost prefer.) Leica evokes a lot of…

A hybrid commute

Two months ago, not only did we move into our new home, but Simpleform moved into its new office on 2nd Street. As we were living only three blocks from the 16th St. Mission BART station, and I was working…

VW Bus/Pickup

I don’t know what it is about black and white, but it makes me want to start taking car portraits again. I’m not even that into cars, but there’s something I find irresistible about old cars and cities. They have…

Plymouth Valiant

In my past experiments with color-accenting, I started with a color digital photograph and desaturated the background. Given my recent entree into delayed gratification photography, I now have the opportunity to work in the opposite direction: selectively tinting a black…

Le Housewarming, enfin!

A few weeks ago we had some friends over to help warm our new home. I didn’t expect to take any photos, but after Jonathan picked up the Leica, I ended up snapping a few shots as well, including this…

Equine container cranes

Earlier this month, Stephanie and I took the ferry to the Alameda Antiques Faire, where I expected to take photos of all the wacky stuff for sale, but instead found myself more enamored with the container cranes we saw on…

Leica blues

In the middle of my 3rd roll of film, I noticed a strange aberration showing up among my exposures. Occasionally, the left third of the frame was coming back badly overexposed. Sample overexposure aberration from roll 3

Toppled Parmesan

This is Parmigiano-Reggiano as it should look: An aging room (taken during our trip to Parma in July 2011)