Destination Unknown

20 years ago, I started a second career as a motorcycle journalist, and I’ve been lucky enough to see many of the beautiful places in the world and publishing stories and photos of my adventures. I’ve started documenting my bicycle adventures in a similar fashion, and will be sharing those stories here. Please join me.

“The idea is to die young as late as possible

Ashley Montagu

The Latest Stuff…


  • In the Big Apple for the annual IMS Motorcycle Show. The train burrows under the Hudson River and we come up for air at NY Penn Station, a hive of activity. I mean, this is like the crossroads of the world almost and a great location of street photos. But I’m just not feeling it.…


  • I’ll be at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC this Saturday. I’ll be at the RoadRUNNER Magazine booth speaking with subscribers. This is a yearly tradition for many motorcyclists in the New York area. Even if the weather outside is frightful, we gather, bump into friends, and ogle the…


  • I’ll be at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC this Saturday. I’ll be at the RoadRUNNER Magazine booth speaking with subscribers. This is a yearly tradition for many motorcyclists in the New York area. Even if the weather outside is frightful, we gather, bump into friends, and ogle the…


  • No it’s not, actually. I just made that up. But I thought that I’d post some Google Trends of Pentax’s camera line: For those wondering what this is, it’s a graph of how frequently someone has gone to Google and searched for each of the Pentax cameras. It’s interesting that the tiny Q is the…


  • I’m in the midst of doing some market research on a project, and while I was compiling site traffic data on Compete.com, curiosity got the better of me and I started looking at site traffic for some of the photography websites that I visit regularly. One thing led to another and I plotted the 2012…


  • So one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to take fewer pictures. That’s right, to shoot less. I took over 40,000 photos last year, and while I’ve got a ton of hard drive space I don’t have a ton of time to really go through them. There are probably some nice photos in there that…



  • Pentax has announced a new advanced point-and-shoot that carries the vaunted MX name forward. It’s called the MX-1 and it’s got what looks like real imitation leather sandwiched between brass top and bottom plates to like, you know, mimic the past. By the specs it looks like a nice advanced point-and-shoot in the Panasonic LX7 and Olympus…


  • Thoughts and samples to appear in future posts. In the meantime, click here for all posts related to the Nikon V1.


  • [This is the second post in a series. The first, “The Case Against Full-Frame” can be found here. The third, “The Case Against Micro Four-Thirds“, can be found here. The last, “The Case Against 1″ Sensors“, can be found here.]Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth during the Grungeolithic Era (aka, the 1990s), Kodak, Fuji, AgfaPhoto,…