My first encounter with the music of My Brightest Diamond was a track on a RED + HOT compilation. During the summer break, my neighbor’s teenage daughter and her friend used to hang out in my living room and spin CDs on my hi-fi. One day she brought over Dark Was the Night, the fifteenth entry in the RED + HOT series.

It’s been years since the Dollyrots played Oklahoma City. But fortune finally favored the city’s denizens: last April they opened for Bowling for Soup

I drove to Okemah in early December to see folk singer and songwriter Tim Easton. Easton was on the first leg of a multi-city recording session for his new album Exposition. After we had lunch at the Hen House Café I took some pictures of him working in his makeshift

On 26 May, central Oklahoma felt an earthquake. The vibrations were from the needle dropping on Godfather of Alt-Rock Tyson Meade’s new long player, Robbing the Nuclear Family. The 55-year-old rocker played piano and sang the entire album to an attentive audience at historic music venue VZD’s Restaurant and […]

Astute readers may have noticed that I’ve been transitioning to using mostly my Fujifilm X-T1 camera, with my Leica M9-P relegated to backup duties. […]

When we began hearing rumors about a Leica project code-named Chronos in late September last year, we assigned a small team of reporters to dig deeper. […]

According to a copyright story by News on 6, the most photographed Chinese accordion in the world has been returned to Radoslav “Rad” Lorković, after having been MIA for 9 months. The accordion disappeared at Tulsa’s Brady Theatre after a Woody Guthrie tribute concert. […]

After all that research, I decided that, besides buying better lenses for the M3, I was willing to fork over some serious shekels for an M9 — or better yet, an M9-P, as I didn’t trust myself not to scratch the view-screen. […]

I spent the next couple of months obsessively researching Leica cameras and lenses. I began by downloading the owner’s manual for the M3 rangefinder. Then I practiced composing and focusing with no film in the camera. […]

I quickly realized that the lens that Joe had given me was impractical: the frame lines were too restrictive

… Then Joe took a trip to Roswell. As I mentioned in Part 1, Joe rides motorcycles: BMWs, Kawasakis, and more recently, a Harley. He’s also interested in UFOs and the Roswell Incident. I think he’s more interested in the characters who are drawn to them than to the alleged aliens and spacecraft themselves, […]