Down the Road
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Road trip cameras
Why I don’t scan my negatives “flat”
single frame: Abandoned
Old cars parked: February 2026
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Folly Beach and the Olympus Stylus
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Vintage TV: 1983 Alex Trebek Jeopardy! pilot
Protecting the revenue stream
single frame: Let it snow
The refilling
50mm f/1.4 SMC Pentax-M
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Me at John’s Modern Cabins on Route 66
Memories lost, memories created, memories kept
single frame: Live oaks over the path
The discipline of the light hand
Recent iPhoneography
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Macy and Nyona Lake
Contemplating my next workhorse camera
A walk on Daniel Island
The pitfalls of point-and-shoot film cameras
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Down the Road’s 19th blogiversary
US 52 in Charleston, South Carolina
Transform, operationalize, exit: the career pattern I kept missing for 27 years
Photos from various islands in Charleston County, SC
Old cars parked: January, 2026
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1920s concrete on Indiana’s National Road/US 40
We can learn what love is even from the imperfect people in our lives
Statues in Brookgreen Gardens
Choosing love over law
Canon PowerShot S95
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A Substack experiment
Sign salad
The cult continuum: why we need better language for religious control
A walk along Folly Beach
The Christian empathy debate avoids harder questions about living the faith
Looking inside a box of Kodak Plus-X expired since 2001
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2026 road trips
The lost photo era: 2005-2010
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Photos from my final roll of Kodak Plus-X
The longest phase: building a life after ambition
Olympus XA
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The 1913 Lincoln Highway in La Porte County, Indiana
Keeping black-and-white film developer fresh longer with StopLossBags
Close photos of a classic camera
Old cars parked: December, 2025
AristaPan 100 in the Olympus XA
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The 1913 Lincoln Highway in St. Joseph County, part 2: South Bend and New Carlisle
My theme for 2026
Down the Road in 2025
Knowing when to quit
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Happy Christmas!
Christmas Eve at Second Presbyterian Church
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The 1913 Lincoln Highway in Elkhart County, Indiana, part 2: Elkhart
single frame: Stocking stuffers
My ten favorite old cars I found parked in 2025
Former Gulf station in Aurora, Indiana, repurposed as 1950s-style diner
First results from a Lomo Cosmic 35
When you’re the one who might have spread it
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The 1913 Lincoln Highway in Elkhart County, Indiana, part 1: Goshen
An old building in downtown South Bend restores its original face
single frame: At the Cadillac Palace
Film photos of the Triple Whipple bridge
Film info sheet: Kodak Tri-X
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The Vistula Road, a historic road from South Bend to Toledo, and its path in Indiana
The 1898 Indiana Avenue bridge in Goshen
Life update
single frame: Yellow trees in Westville Cemetery
Old cars parked: November 2025
Why does my Nikon Df’s metering switch sometimes not stay in the mode I select?
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Revisiting the George Street Bridge on Old US 50 in Aurora, Indiana
Our first Thanksgiving in the empty nest
single frame: Carrollton Avenue in the Bottleworks District
The color of Kodak Plus-X
Nikon F2
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The 1878 bridge over Loughery Creek in Ohio and Dearborn Counties in Indiana is the last one of its design in the world
My dad’s 1966 Ford Galaxie 500
single frame: Inside the Church of the Immaculate Conception
Buying vintage film cameras on eBay without getting burned
Random places captured with the Yashica-12
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Terre Haute, the Bloomington Road, and State Road 46
The site of my first job
single frame: The Rusty Bucket
My book of stories and essays, A Place to Start, turns 5
Back from CLA: my Pentax ME SE
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Rural Free Delivery and the Good Roads Movement
Candids from the film-photography meetup
single frame: Triple Whipple
Old cars parked, October 2025
Konica C35 Automatic
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What the ice storm could have taught me about myself
Challenging some limiting beliefs
single frame: Bottleworks Hotel
Film portraits of film photographers
Autumn color on Instax
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The 1913 Lincoln Highway in Noble County, Indiana
Red & White was a rural grocery cooperative most active in the 20th century
My presentation at the Vigo County Historical Museum
single frame: Kibitzing over a Camaro
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The 50mm f/3.5 Zuiko Auto Macro lens renders color beautifully
More photos from the 24mm f/3.5 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar
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The 1913 Lincoln Highway in Whitley County, Indiana
We walked for Rana
single frame: Corn
Two-year experience report: 2024 Volkswagen Jetta GLI, 40th Anniversary Edition
First impressions of the 24mm f/3.5 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar lens (or, how many ways can I screw up one roll of film?)
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I’m speaking at the Vigo County History Center about the National Road and Vigo County road history
A visit to the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum
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single frame: Red car in front of the mural
Old cars parked, September 2025
Canon New F-1
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The Lincoln Highway through New Haven and Fort Wayne, Indiana, part 2
Greenwich Market
single frame: Magic Wand
On getting out of a photographic rut and refreshing creativity
Vintage iron on Kodak T-Max 100
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A little late-summer Instax never hurt anyone
single frame: Embassy Theater