Leica

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, […]