Trio of Model A's

ModelA, originally uploaded by nicmiller.

There were four in all, just across the lawn from my home office window, each just a decade or two older than the camera I used to take the picture.

Argoflex to the rescue.

I recently decided that my art deprived, academia-saturated soul needed a break. So I took up a new hobby: photography.

Wait. Haven't I been a photographer for quite some time? . . . not really.

The pictures I take now are black and white, square, film, and I develop them myself. My camera is old enough to have been new when my grandfather was not yet a teenager.

Here's on just like it:


It's delightfully simple yet extraordinarily difficult to use properly. I love it.