Merry Christmas to you all. ’tis the time of year that bloggers put down their laptops and stick into the mince pies and mulled wine. Here’s a trio of the better posts out there however.

Red Carded

In 1975 Mike Mandel produced a series of baseball style cards featuring the greats of photography from Ansel Adams,
Imogen Cunningham & Ed Ruscha, These now trade for serious money and it’s worth hearing about it from Mike himself in this Youtube video that was picked up by PetaPixel this week.

Leica Likely ?

James Tocchio at Casual Photophile has a beef with the Leica M series or does he ? A woth pithy end to a great year for this blog !

Over XA2’d

Kosmofoto spend some time with the Olympus XA2 and finds lots to like with this ever popular pseudo zone focus ultra compcat. Not sure about the japanese LC-A tag mind…