Musings on photography both analog and digital
It has been some time since my last article, and it behooves me to say a word or two about a recent camera release which hits close to home: namely, the most recent iteration of the Ricoh GR series. And, yes, there has been a further announcement, one which a clamorous niche of the photography… Continue reading Ricoh GR IV (Thoughts Too Brief for a Review)
Before I even begin this one, here's the disclaimer: I mostly write about cameras which I like. That's not ultra-difficult, because I like most cameras that I've owned and used. I don't focus on the negative things most of the time, especially when I've spent my hard-earned greenbacks on a piece of gear. However, I… Continue reading Ricoh GRIIIx Review – DARK MODE
There are two kinds of people, perhaps: those who are energized by the onset of summer, living their best experiences during the time, and those who feel the opposite, for whom summer seems too loud, crowded, hot and fast-paced. I have always been in the latter camp. If you're in the former, I congratulate you.… Continue reading Summer Doldrums
I was listening to a podcast this morning (the excellent "Prime Lenses" photography podcast by Iain Farrell), and the guest mentioned the era of Lomography: a time long, long ago (the internet will tell you it was 2011, but that coincides mostly with the rise of Instagram, as far as I can tell. Instagram offered… Continue reading The Banshees of Lomography
This is the second of my posts around the Pentax HD DA 15mm f/4 Limited. In the first, I was concerned with the characteristics of wide and ultra-wide lenses in general, for the most part, and promised to get more technical in the second one. As I thought about it, however, I realized that I'm… Continue reading The Pentax HD DA 15mm f/4 Limited Lens
I recently completed a month-long challenge, shooting with the same camera and lens and posting a photo each day in an online photography community. My camera of choice was the Pentax K-3 MarkIII Monochrome, and my lens was the HD DA 15mm f/4 Limited. It's a wide-angle prime lens whichequates to about 22.5mm on the… Continue reading A Wide Variety
In the months since writing my last post, my gear list has remained mostly the same. The Voiglander Bessa-T and Color-Skopar 35mm f2.5 have left, providing some of the funding for the Pentax K-1 Mark II. It has been a busy time outside of my photography hobby, and it culminated in a move to a… Continue reading A New Horizon, A Familiar Skyline
The age of COVID has been a rough time to keep a photography blog. Certainly I started out two years ago with the idea that I would be capturing a point history would look back on, with the many facets of our individual perspectives in the world: a time of face masks, social distancing, upheaval… Continue reading A Brave – or Timid – New World
In a previous post, I theorized about the Ricoh GR IIIx before it officially made it to online retail sites. Given I have a longstanding affinity for the 40mm field of view, I was very excited by the announcement, and got my hands on one as soon as I could. Now that I've had it… Continue reading Ricoh GR IIIx Review: The Lens
Last time I wrote about the power to surprise and arrest us that a photograph has by being printed and placed into real-world surroundings. But what if we want to make photographs to appear in a book, or to try and capture a moment of the restless viewer's time on the internet? We can do… Continue reading Two Working Elements of a Photograph, Part 2
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