Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Wishing everyone all the best for 2007.

Rocky Balboa, San Francisco, December 24, 2006
2006 was a banner year for this photographer, seeing the abandonment of film, the disposal of a ridiculous accumulation of gear, and its replacement with a couple of digital cameras and lenses and one piece of insanely great software. As a result, […]

A little slice of life
For those of you into that most civilized of games, cricket, the boy on the wall appears to be bowling a particularly mean googly.
Spotted in San Mateo, CA on Christmas Eve.

Lumix LX1, ISO 80, 1/1250 at f/w at 28mm.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit subway in San Francisco is fast, not too costly and sometimes clean. It’s a great way to get around in a congested city and offers lots of picture opportunities, assuming some bureaucrat doesn’t apprehend you and try to confiscate your camera.

On the BART, December 23, 2006. A throwback […]

Union Square, San Francisco, Christmas Eve, 2006

The best and worst of a (mostly) great year
Never mind the fact that the free world is threatened by despots vying for nuclear weapons, what does that exemplar of American trash writing, Time magazine, give the Man of the Year award to? Why, to ‘You’. The related garbage prose goes on to laud […]

They get the best landscapes

California, 7am yesterday. Canon 5D, 50mm, f/4, ISO 250
It pays to get up early!

Better for Apple’s stock price than for photographers
After much badgering, Adobe has released a Beta version of Photoshop CS3 in versions for both Mac and Windows users. You need to submit your CS2 serial number to Adobe and they give you a new one to use with CS3, otherwise the product becomes deactivated after […]

f/1.4 is fast!
I have never owned a lens faster than f/2.
That said, the f/2s I have owned have invariably said ‘Leica Summicron’ on them, whether 35mm, 50mm or 90mm. Which is sort of like saying that all your sports cars have been