Vintage

If you want to step up your focal length, you should read this. — For a while now, I’ve been shooting birds and people at 135mm and 210mm. But I find myself wanting more reach. I want to get closer to my subject in order to extract their detail and character. And I want to achieve better subject isolation via the compression effect that…

It makes you wonder about the advancements that are yet to come… — Sitting in my grandparents’ attic is a library of content stemming from past decades. In there, you will find books, magazines and records dating from the 1930s all the way to the present. Ever since I was a little girl, I would skim through the bookshelves, chasing no particular book…

The joy of seeing items reborn — I have been searching for treasure for as long as I can remember. In high school, I only wore vintage clothing because I was obsessed with 1960s fashion. Later, when I began graduate school, I quickly discovered Wasteland in Santa Monica — my dream store. Everything there was designer brand…

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Alfetta saloon, a seminal model in Alfa Romeo’s history, not just because of its commercial success but also because of its sophisticated underpinnings, which served as a base for many more beloved Alfa models for over two decades. — Work on the “116” project started in 1967. Alfa’s engineering team, headed by Orazio Satta, aimed to achieve far superior handling and roadgoing characteristics than the existing Alfa Romeo models.

Prompted Flash Fiction (1970s vintage KISS lunch box, rhino, cruise ship) — Chris was sitting in the shade of an umbrella on the lido deck of the Norwegian Saphire, sketching the famous arch, the one everybody had to have a selfie with, when some kid he didn’t know walked up to him and said, “A rhino’s running loose in Cabo.” “What?” The…