Photographs, Photographers and Photography

A brief personal history.
This piece addresses macro lenses - those which provide significant image scale when focused close. Regard this as a teaser for the unfolding story of my macro photography experience.
In Themes have their uses I ruminated on the need for themes - goals if you like - in your photography, if quality […]

The low stress way.
I doubt there’s a bird I don’t like. Even the turkey vultures which call this area home, with a face only a mother could love, once on the wing are a thing of beauty.
The other day on our daily ramble, Bert the Border Terrier and I observed a red tailed hawk […]

Just the thing the 5D ordered.
My last sensor brush - for the Canon 5D’s eternal love affair with dust - gave up the ghost so a new one was called for.
I splashed out major coin ($9.95 actually) at B&H for a Pearstone brush.

The brush retracts and clicks at both ends of its travel. The […]

No, not the planet.
Everyone knows this one:

Botticelli. Venus, 1486. Uffizi, Florence.
And here’s today’s version:

Towel advertisement, 2008
Maybe not as powerful a rendition as with that Raphael but a good effort nonetheless, the towel replacing the hair. Notice how the towel has been cleverly sculpted to imitate the shell in the original.
And if you are […]

Storage is power.
A few years ago when we upgraded our servers at work to greater capacity - some 200 gigabytes (gB) if I recall - I asked our head of IT what the word was for the next greater unit of storage.
Why, a Terabyte (tB), came the reply. That’s 1,000 gB.
Who would ever need […]

Hard to believe, really.
I confess that the two words in the title of this piece are ones I would never have seen writing together. To me processing is simply a mechanical step that stands between the snap and its realization. A necessary if boring interlude which should be made as fast and automated […]

Accidental lighting.

Light pools. Lumix LX-1, 1/50, f/4.9, ISO 80
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