On photography

Street photography in Glasgow with Rick Lepage and Hudson Henry, then north through Inverness and Ullapool to a quiet white house on the Isle of Harris — a week of making pictures, talking photography, comparing cameras over whiskey, and the coffee caravan we kept missing.

The Sony RX1R III and Leica Q3 both promise full-frame image quality in a compact camera you can take almost anywhere. After using them side by side in Scotland, the choice came down to portability, lens quality, handling, and which camera made me want to keep shooting.

A short photography and architecture note about Oakland’s 1914 Beaux-Arts City Hall at sunrise, captured while jet-lagged with the Sony RX1R III and its familiar 35mm lens.

A short travel and photography note about Serifos, a quieter Cycladic island reached by boat, with beach days, evenings up in the Chora, and a plea to keep the mellow vibe intact.

The HP B9180 was fast, reliable, and produced beautiful prints until its self-maintenance system turned against it. This short gear piece tracks how a great photo printer became prohibitively expensive once its nozzle-check system started consuming ink.

The Sony RX1 put a full-frame sensor and a remarkable fixed 35mm lens into a camera small enough to fit in a jacket pocket. In 2013, that combination felt almost impossible, and it reset what a compact digital camera could be without giving up serious image quality.

A 2011 explanation of why Tack Sharp went quiet despite real listener demand. The short answer was podcast economics: listeners wanted more episodes, but the advertising-supported model needed sponsor demand that never quite showed up.