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This photo taken at 10:12am in Milan, Italy on April 23, 2013 represents the precise point in time when I vowed never to buy another pair of Keen shoes. That’s my 3rd pair of Keen Boston shoes in the trash can in my hotel room.

May 17th, 2013 | Tags: 10th Anniversary, apart, Arroyo, Blogging, Boston, China, claim, color, construction, customer, delaminate, delamination, detach, difference, dispose, Europe, fall, fall apart, Finlay, footwear, glue, homage, Keen, leather, Newport, online, poor, premature, present, Problem, purchace, quality, replacement, rubber, sandal, separation, service, shoes, sole, store, support, Targhee, trash, Travel, upper, warranty, wear, website, worn | Category: Life Lessons, Travel, gear, reviews | Comments (1)

Ten years ago (probably pretty close to the day) I walked into my local Wolf Camera store with a backpack full of Nikon 35mm gear and walked out with a small box containing a single 2MP Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera. I haven’t looked back since. Then, last week my friend Stephen sent me over [...]

May 20th, 2009 | Tags: 1/2000, 35mm, 50mm f/1.7 SMC-A, accuracy, aperture, auto, auto focus, Av, bracket, C41, camera, CD, cheap, color, control, Coolpix 950, cost, creative, daylight, develop, digital, DoF, DSLR, expense, experience, FA 28-70 f/4 AL, FA 35mm f/2 AL, feedback, film, flash, Fuji Superia, investment, ISO 400, k10d, Ken Rockwell, kit lens, LCD, manual focus, NCPS, Nikon, observations, Pentax, priority, processing, program, RAW, review, Sam's, scan, shutter, slr, SMCP-DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL, speed, Takumar 135mm f/2.5, versus, view finder, vs, Wholesale, zx-5n | Category: Photography, gear | Comments (5)