Franken-Beseler

I love the Beseler 45 enlarger design. It is well built and easily found on the used market. The design is unique as it uses two columns for support rather than the more common single column. It is designed to attach to a metal table called an Adjust-Table, and rises...

Kodak 8×10 Restoration. Part I

Look what I found on EBay! It is a wooden Kodak 2-D 8×10 inch film, view camera. These were manufactured from 1920-1950 and were a real workhorse for professional photographers of the day. It looked like a lost puppy looking for a good home. I figured it would be...

Sandstone Perfection. Coyote Buttes, Arizona

Words can really not describe this wonderful patch of sandstone in northern Arizona known as The Wave. The cross-bedded sandstone has created a photographer’s paradise of undulating ripples of perfectly formed lines. Due to the fragile nature of the area a very...