I love those guys at B & H Photo. Not one person laughed when I explained I needed their help figuring out how to put an infrared filter on a toy camera... in fact... they helped me find a cheap way to do it. Off the ship graveyard to try it out!

On Saturday I went to Coney Island to play with my Holga in the cold, dark rain. As you might imagine, mixed success there. The main problem was the vicious guard dogs and the barbed wire fences that stood between me and some gorgeous photos. Sigh.

Artist Bob Herdlein sent me a wonderful gift last weekend - a link to his paintings inspired by the Children's Crusade: "They set forth about the time of the Pentecost... and left behind their plows and carts, abandoned the animals they pastured. Many took up pilgrim costume, wide brimmed hat, palmer's staff, gray coat and a cross sewn to the breast. By repute they numbered twenty thousand. Some leapt and danced like storks prepared to migrate. Thus wrapped in mighty delusions they walked from Cologne to Basle, to Geneva, traversed the Alps near Mount Cenis, by which time half had been lost, murdered, starved, frozen, drowned in raging mountain streams, devoured by famished wolves."