My #thursdaythoughts theme has been retired for 2025. In it's place is something different—Anything Can Happen Day. This was what Thursdays were called on the Mickey Mouse Club where I stole the idea! Today's Post by Joe Farace The countenance is the portrait of the...

The 10-megapixel Digital-Modul-R, its official name, was a stop gap solution and a clever one at that, that converted Leica’s chunky R8 and R9 35mm film cameras into DSLRs. It cost $5950 in 2006 dollars or about $9,125 today. Finding one today seems to be a challenge.

Before the Dot Com bust, in addition to writing for photography magazines like Shutterbug, I was a writer and Contributing Editor for several computer magazines, such as ComputerUSER.

Whenever I’m asked to do a presentation to photographic organizations about infrared photography, I always kick it off with a question a reader once e-mailed me: “Why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?”

And so you may be asking? Haven’t you already beaten photographing the Jacks and Ball sculptures  to death? Yes, I’ll gladly admit that this is true and I even made some portraits there…