Pepin-Minneapolis 2022 Trip, Part One: The train ride out

The view of the Rockies from the dining car, as the Empire Builder crests Marias Pass in Montana. 12 May 2022. Olympus XA2/Kodak Portra 160 Here is Part One (of a planned three) posts about Emee and my trip to the Midwest for the Lake Pepin Three Speed Tour. We took Amtrak's Empire Builder out...

Oregon Coast Bike Tour 2021: The photos

Camp at Beverly Beach on the morning of Day 4, 14 Aug 2021. Olympus Pen EES-2, Fuji Sensia 100 Why yes, I took a bunch of photos during my most recent bike tour! And yes, most of them were on film. I decided to bring two of my smallest cameras along with me: my Olympus...

PDX Coffee Outside at Laurelhurst Park, 22 May 2021

PDX Coffee Outside is part of a phenomenon that sprung up in a lot of places around 2015: Usually weekly and often a weekday morning, it was an informal meet-up of outside coffee enthusiast cyclists. All it required was someone to seize the initiative and set a date/time, then people would show up on their...

Delving into Black and White: My Film Photography Journey

Trillium, Rosemont Bluff. 1 April 2020. Minolta Hi-Matic 7s/Kentmere Pan 400 It was inevitable: I'm getting into black and white photography. I started to delve into it about a month after getting the Minolta Hi-Matic 7s. I wanted to get comfortable with just shooting film before I attempted black and white. (While black and white...