And Welcome again! The gallery format on this site allows you to ENLARGE. Just click on the photo. Find yourself around anywhere you like. Each heading is a starting place…click on anyone and topics appear…click again to “travel” in time and place!.

The site is a product of some 50 years of my photography. You’ll find images here from maybe a dozen cameras during my life in digital and film (black and white, color print, and color transparencies). In film, I mostly used my own darkroom for black and white but not color—too hard and expensive. I will try to group the various portfolios loosely by content or style; feel free to wander; there is symmetry but no definitive order. Lots to see here!! I hope you are mesmerized by every single page of it. Visit often!

Over the span of this collection from around 1972, I left film behind in 2003 obtaining my first digital camera, the Canon G3. Soon after, there followed editing software instead of dark rooms to manage and “develop” these images which can fill another whole story itself which you may very well find details and opinions in Blog entries. Otherwise, here is a very brief summary of the current tools in my ‘shed’:

As a teen’ I had access to various family member’s early consumer cameras. After college, I was swept away by photography and obtained as soon as possible a borrowed Konica Auto S2 35mm rangefinder. In short order I began my trek through assorted gear. I used mostly Canon, Pentax, and Ricoh cams. Now, as I write this, I find myself on the wave front of the newest ‘mirrorless’ digital cameras happily using 3 different Fujifilm cameras, the X-T5, X100V, and the grandaddy X-E1. My ‘glasswear’ is comprised of an assortment of 10 lenses, X-mount, ranging from 16mm up to 300mm (7 primes and 3 zooms) and two adaptors for macro work and extra telephoto range.

I’ll happily engage in any conversations regarding photography (contact info provided) and will freely express opinions and ideas in the occasional Blog entries.

THANK you for visiting….and come back often. I often cull and replace.

Roger Efird