Saturday, February 22, 2025

somewhat excited about the upcoming Panasonic product launch on Tuesday. I hope the rumor sites are correct and it is indeed a replacement for the S1R Lumix camera... But I also have a few bad memories about my first S1R!!!

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  It was 2019. I'd been binge-buying new Panasonic camera bodies for a couple of months. I had two of the S1 cameras and even now I coul...
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I bought some of the type of hats Justin Mott wears on his YouTube channel. I got "influencered"...

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so much stuff is hard to resist. Gravity, inertia, taxes, lethargy, etc. But the influencers on YouTube make it tough to resist photo orient...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Reposting another favorite that appeared on VSL some 12 years ago. Back when we "only" had a thousand posts up on the site...

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  https://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2012/05/whats-missing-from-current-practice-of.html
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Portrait done in a workshop many, many years ago. But in a style I still love very much right now...

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  This image of a person who agreed to model in one of my workshops gives energy to the argument that, at least for me, the camera, its reso...
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I laughed out loud this morning when I read in the newspaper that a south Austin couple went out for a walk in the very cold weather...

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  this image was taken back in 2022, in August. It was hot. So I walked. Yesterday was cold. So I swam... I assume readers were supposed to ...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

I have experienced the "beating of a dead horse" on other writer's blogs. I thought I'd continue the tradition here with one of my favorite visual tangents....the lonely, paper coffee cup.

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  I'm a promiscuous coffee drinker. There's good coffee in spots throughout Austin and I've learned where many of these spots ar...
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I've recently had a renewed interest in the Leica SL2. So much so that I bought a second one as a back-up to the first. Why not? The prices have dropped so low....

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I walked down to North Congress Ave., just in front of the state capitol building, to see some of the finishers from today's Austin Mara...
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