Shot on film.

A Canon A-1 from the basement, and why I keep shooting on it.

I found the camera in my basement. When my stepdad saw me using it, he told me it had been his grandfather's, which I suppose makes it my step-great-grandfather's, and that he had loved shooting on it himself back in college. It had a history before it got to me.

Film is the most artistic form of photography for me. You don't know how a shot turned out until it's processed, and there's something beautiful in that. You get one shot at one moment. I can't hold the button down and pick the best of twenty later. Everything the camera catches is light staining the film. It's as simple and direct as it gets.

Mostly I shoot whatever I happen to be standing in front of: old buildings and the light on them, streets seen from above, water, and the occasional cat. I like frames with a lot going on in them, and I would rather catch a place as it is than set anything up.

Camera

Canon A-1

[Describe the photo in a few words] — Florence, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026

Faded red fresco of robed figures above a stone counter in a ruined Roman tavern — Pompeii, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Man standing at the water's edge looking out at a cliffside coast and a passing ferry — Positano, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Brick dome and striped marble facade of the Florence Duomo against a clear blue sky — Florence, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026

Stone bridge crossing the Arno in hazy afternoon light, buildings lining both banks — Florence, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026

Markley the tabby cat lying on a fleece blanket, staring straight at the camera — Markley the catCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Terracotta rooftops, cypress trees and a brick bell tower on a hillside town — Siena, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Brown BMW motorcycle parked against a stone wall above a cliffside village — BMW motorcycle in Positano, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Curved outer wall of the Colosseum, its arches stacked three storeys high — Rome, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Marble statue of the Discobolus mid-throw in a marble gallery of the Vatican Museums — Discobolus, Vatican CityCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Otis, a white Labrador, sitting on a bed against a carved wooden headboard and looking back at the camera — Otis the dog in Great Falls, VirginiaCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2025

Striped pink and cream badland ridges rolling out to a flat, hazy horizon — Badlands National Park, South DakotaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

A green Jeep Wrangler on a road through golden prairie grass, seen past a railing under a hazy sky — Lone Wrangler in Badlands National Park, South DakotaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Old Faithful erupting in a tall white plume above pale geyser flats, pine-covered hills behind — Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, WyomingCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

A river bending past a bright green meadow below a steep, pine-covered cliff in hazy light — Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, WyomingCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

A river winding between dark pine trees toward a hazy mountain, low sun flaring through the branches — Gallatin River, MontanaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Double exposure of a red cardinal in windswept coastal shrubs layered over a close-up of a shaggy animal's nose — Wilmington, North CarolinaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

A bald eagle lifting off from a driftwood stump on an empty sandbar, houses and trees across the water — Wilmington, North CarolinaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Enzo, a shaggy brown doodle, walking toward the camera across a windswept beach under an overcast sky — Enzo the dog in Wilmington, North CarolinaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Anastasia smiling in her graduation gown and hood at a warmly lit restaurant table, framed pictures glowing behind her — Anastasia at her graduation in Boston, MassachusettsCanon A-1 · Flic Film Street Savvy 400 · 2026

A narrow stone street in Florence at golden hour, people walking toward bright light at the far end — Florence, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026

Four friends sitting on a brick wall along the Arno, pastel apartment buildings stacked behind them — Florence, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026

Glowing neon sign reading 'don’t call me focaccia' above straw-wrapped Chianti bottles in a dim sandwich shop — Florence, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026

Jagged badland ridges stretching to a flat horizon under a wide, hazy sky, a few visitors at an overlook below — Badlands National Park, South DakotaCanon A-1 · Kodak UltraMax · 2026

Dead trees standing in steaming white travertine terraces, a canyon wall behind and a pink light leak across the sky — Yellowstone National Park, WyomingCanon A-1 · Flic Film Street Savvy 400 · 2026

Marble statue of Oceanus under a coffered arch at the Trevi Fountain, flanked by columns and robed figures in niches — Trevi Fountain, Rome, ItalyCanon A-1 · Kodak Gold · 2026