Our nugget of gold as mentioned in the last blog, turned out to be a hand turned, hand ground Derogy lens, made in Paris around 1860.
This lens which will be used for portrait photography, in a large format studio camera. It is a lens that comes for sale once in a lifetime, so you can...
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The other evening, while we had willing victims…(some call them guests), we tested out our newly converted antique lens on our 4×5 Toyo Field camera. This lens, my husband hunted down on various sites like the Large Format Photography Forum and Ebay, it is approximately 110 years old…well, why listen to me talk about it…let...
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While at a BBQ in WV, I met a very precocious little girl, in my humble opinion the best kind, but she asked me to take her photo. I was shooting that day with my vintage Rolleiflex medium format film camera so I helped her perch herself on her lawn chair like throne.
She was a...
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Sitting here trying to form my thoughts into creative words, I am breathing deep the soft scent of the bouquet of Lilies of the Valley in the vase next to me.
I have been having a difficult time getting my head back into the blogging rhythm after two weeks in the Netherlands. How can I in...
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