There is a particular pleasure in doing things slowly.

I spent decades working. Now I spend my mornings in a darkroom, my afternoons with cameras that were built before I was born, and my evenings with books about Cartier-Bresson, Capa, and the photographers who made Magnum what it was.

This is a blog about film cameras, analog photography, and the quiet satisfaction of a well-exposed negative. I shoot only on film — mostly on Leica barnacks, the small brass cameras that carried photojournalism through its greatest era. I meter with Weston lightmeters, develop by hand, and take as long as I need.