Odenton Volunteer Fire Company Annual Carnival
Summer begins today with memorial day and the Odenton VFD is hosting their annual carnival for local residents. Last week I went out opening night with my Mamiya RB67 and a roll of Ilford Delta 3200 to take some photos.
Carnival opens at 6:00 p.m. May 20-23, 5:00 p.m. on May 24-25, and 4:00 p.m. on May 26. The Odenton Volunteer Fire Company Honor Guard will do an Honor Guard Presentation and Reading at 5:00 p.m. on Memorial Day, May 26. All you can ride bracelets are $35 each night - only valid on date of purchase.
National Museum of the Marine Corps
The National Museum of the Marine Corps, photographed on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
I have photographed the front of this building so many times when I was a young Lance Cpl stationed at Quantico. I like to think that this image, now taken about 12 years after leaving MCBQ, really shows how far I have come as a photographer. This is also the first time I have returned here as a civilian. I will certainly be printing this one!
Piney Orchard in ilford Delta 100
Brought the Pentax 6×7 to the Piney Orchard Community Center. There is a small creek which winds its way through the neighborhood. Following that with a roll of Delta 100 proved to be a calming way to start the morning.
Iceland with a 4x5
Walking around iceland always does feel like you are in the setting that inspired so many sci fi and fantasy stories - this photo, is what communicates that for me.
I never got around to making this post, but I find myself with excess time today and in need of a distraction. So here we go. A few years ago I brought a yashica tlr to iceland, though on my first exposure the shutter stuck and I was without the tools to fix it. So I made do by taking all my photos with a DSLR instead. They came out great, I love them dearly. But I always wanted to shoot iceland on film. So a year later My wife and I planned another trip because we just wanted to get back there! This time, I took a 4x5. My 4x5 is my most reliable film camera I own, mostly because its operation is so simple, less moving parts means less things that can get messed up! The negatives we got from this trip are truly wonderful.
This image is one of my favorite frames from the trip (back in 2023). In any other image, the two silhouetted hikers in the top left would be the focus point, but here they are nothing more than a punctuation mark against the landscape. On the upper third horizon line, centered in the frame is the sun, masked behind an otherwise impervious wall of cloud. Here it works as a guiding star, drawing your eyes down the river into frame and out toward the sea. The green moss rises up the mountain side like fog rising in the air, and the river twists and tumbles on its path out to the ocean. The low, half sun reminds me of views from the moon, or another planet. It hangs in the air, low and misshaped, as if it is not the sun at all, but another celestial body orbiting the strange landscape. The way the cliffs reach outwards at odd angles, collecting never seems to make sense. There is always something that breaks the pattern, there are few clean lines here, nothing has had time to truly begin to erode. Growing up in the appalachian foothills, this is completely foreign to my eyes. Walking around iceland always does feel like you are in the setting that inspired so many sci fi and fantasy stories - this photo, is what communicates that for me.
U.S. Air Force Promotion Ceremony at the Women's Military Memorial in Arlington, VA.
U.S. Air Force Maj. Victoria R. Villa is promoted to Lt. Col. at the Military Womens Memorial in Arlington Va., Feb 2, 2026. Photo by Mike Guinto
I was recently hired to photograph the promotion ceremony of Major Victoria Villa to Lt. Col. At the Military Women's Memorial in Arlington VA. Typically these are done outdoors but due to a recent snowstorm closing down all of DC we went inside for the ceremony.
I love these types of ceremonies, they bring me back to my own time in service, where I was photographing these every 1st weekday of the month! Its always such a joy to see their families friends and co-workers pride to see someone get the recognition they deserve!
