Friday, May 16, 2025

Wrangling the &Artisans 50mm f1.8 AF for L mount into submission. Or maybe just walking around shooting random stuff that appealed to me while trying f-stops between 1.8 and 8.0.

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Well here we are, back over 100° Fahrenheit and we're not even out of the month of May. This week has been the wake-up call for Summer. ...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Spent part of the day scanning medium format chromes from the 1990s and part of the day playing with new, cheap, great lens. Oh yeah....and swim practice.

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Back in the late 1990s I was doing a lot of assignment work for Prevention Magazine. We did a fitness shoot for one issue and I recruited mo...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Disappearing by being in plain sight. Photographer as social chameleon.

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  Two Views on the Spanish Steps. Rome. Unposed.  I like to read spy novels. Secret agent books. Covert action stories. One author I enjoy i...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

OT: A fabulous adventure at my dentist's office. Lasers. Oh so good!!!

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Emily at the Lake.  I've always been afraid of dentist visits during which I needed to have some procedure done. A filling, a crown, a r...
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Since someone mentioned the Leica M8 I thought I'd share the review I wrote for Photo.net back when the camera came onto the market. The photos didn't make it along with the article...

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(A review of the Leica M8 for Photo.net/ August 30, 2008 )  (Please refer the readers to the previous article I wrote about the M6 for your ...
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