Photography
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Mirrorless Developments, Large And Small, At Photokina 2016
It's Photokina time again, and there's been a lot of mirrorless news drifting back from Cologne. No, I didn't get to go, but I have been following the reports with at least some interest.…
Of Portraits And Landscapes (Or Who Controls The Horizontal And The Vertical)
The following is a rant. You have been warned. When I first started in photography, well, when I got my first 35mm camera, there were two ways to orient the camera. I could make tall pictures. I coul…
On Taking Pictures DC Meetup
I spent most of today in DC, at a meetup with the hosts of the On Taking Pictures podcast, as well as a good-sized group of listeners. We started out at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to see the…
Too Late For Fall Color? Catoctin Furnace, Thurmont, Maryland
I've been in a slump and a funk for quite some time because, other than my recent trip to New York for PhotoPlus Expo, I haven't made a photograph in months. I've barely even taken a pictu…
What The F-Stop, Indeed!
As many of you know, I enjoy listening to podcasts on my drive to and from work, and this afternoon was no different. On one of the podcasts I listened to today, I happened to hear what had to be the…
Where Does Photography Happen?
I was reading an article on a site called Streetpxl this morning about candid street portraiture (Streetpxl is a site dedicated to street photography). The first article led to another, an interview w…
At The Zoo...
They tell me it's all happening at the zoo,I do believe it, I do believe it's true... On Sunday, we went to join an iPhone meetup group for a photo walk at the National Zoo in Washington. Whi…
Common Ground Roots Music Festival 2014
Our weekend was spent at the Common Ground Roots Music Festival listening to lots of great music and visiting with some of the people Donna met during her Common Ground classes a couple weeks ago. It…
The End Of November...
A few shots from today's visit to Chincoteague National Seashore and Chincoteague, VA. Images shot with a Fujifilm X10 or Sony Alpha SLT-A35. All processing in Photoshop Lightroom 5.2. I went ba…
1935 Time Capsule
In yesterday's mail, I received a book that I ordered on eBay, a copy of William Mortensen's Pictorial Lighting. The book was published in 1935. My copy is from the 3rd printing (July of 1936)…
Good Music Will Prevail
I took this almost two years ago, and it's been rattling around in my phone ever since. Like the old HP printer commercial. You know, the one where the kid jumping in the pool has been frozen…