Saturday, October 18, 2025

Still putting the digital Leica CL and the Sigma Contemporary 56mm f1.4 lens through their paces. Getting comfortable again with a "cropped" frame.

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  Photographed at Allen's Boots, I wanted to see once more how the  Sigma 56mm handled shooting wide open and whether or not a fast  shu...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

OT: Formula One Car Racing Sucks So Bad. And Somehow We've Been The Victims of it for Years Now in Austin. Just Another Way to Suck Money out of City and Citizen Coffers to Engorge the Rich... Sad.

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I was in attendance at Austin's first Formula One race back in 2012. I was hired as the photographer for a three day corporate event for...
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An Odd Sign Seen on South Congress Avenue Today...

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  Sign for an optician.  Camera: Leica CL Lens: Sigma 56mm f1.4 Pushing the bounds of taste in advertising... 
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Leica's digital nod to their original 35mm cameras. Yeah. It's the CL...

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  The first Leica I owned was an ancient, used model IIIf (red dial) which was made from 1950 to 1957, overlapping the introduction of the f...
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Unexpectedly unmotivated to photograph... anything.

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  Young swimmer. I never imagined that the day would come when I would be here writing about this but, since coming back from Chicago a coup...
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Monday, October 13, 2025

I took a black and white camera with me to Chicago...I just had to take the color out of the files before I realized it. Make that two black and white cameras...

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The giant fountain at Millennium Park in the hellscape we used to call, "Chicago."  (Sarcasm. Chicago is just fine...). When I bui...
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