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After looking at any of the images made with the Prod 20, I think you’ll have to admit that the Minolta’s a pretty good little picture maker. And while I will probably never get to actually hold a Fujifilm X-100F in my paws or even any of its successors, such as the red hot X100 VI. But just like Bogey and Bergman, I’ll always have my Minolta Prod 20.

We are launching another crowdfunding campaign with INDIEGOGO with it we are returning to UGANDA this time and publishing the second volume of panAFRICAproject book which is at the designer stage now.

I just got back from taking Mary’s 2018 Subaru Crosstrek in to Parker Imports for its 48,000 mile oil change. Since I waited for the service I sat outside looking at the cars on their parking lot and sitting there was a worse-for-wear Jaguar XK8, which got me thinking about the XK8 I almost bought (and should have) and about Jaguars in general…

This photograph of my (former) 1953 Packard Clipper Club Sedan was made in Brighton, Colorado on a railroad siding that was used for a location in the Bill Murray film Larger than Life. Not necessarily a great film but one I liked with a star turn by then then unknown Mathew McConaughe

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’m a fan of the now-unfashionable Pictorialist school of photography, particularly the eccentric work of William Mortensen. You can read a review of the modern reprint of Mortensen’s landmark 1937 book The Command to Look on my former blog. It’s another one of my favorite photography books.

I’ve often said that success is hard but failure is easy but you can stack the odds in your favor by providing outstanding customer service to your clients. While this may sound obvious, these days it’s not so common and why customer service for most consumer and b-to-b goods and services has all but evaporated. That may sound bad but it’s really the good news for you. The best way to improve your own customer service is to turn your last personal customer experience around 180 degrees.