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The older I get the more I find myself gravitating towards owning fewer, nicer things. I’m also finding that the style that I’m most comfortable with is a kind of casual outdoorsy look – more of a modern interpretation of the classic L.L. Bean style than the Bear Grylls “I’m going to have to drink my own urine to survive” kind of stuff. So, when I ran across these Timberland Boot Company® Mudlark 3-Eye Boat Shoes I knew I had found the perfect addition to my wardrobe.

September 8th, 2012 | Tags: 3-eye, boat, Boot, brown, casual, classic, Company, craftsmanship, detail, ExOfficio, hand, handmade, handsewn, insoles, jeans, Keen, khakis, leather, lugged, made, modern, Mountain, Mudlark, office, quality, refined, Robert S. Donovan, rugged, sewn, shoe, stitching, SuperFeet, Timberland, traditional, Vibram, welt | Category: Stuff, gear, reviews | Comments (1)

Took a ride up to Waverly, AL this afternoon to see what I could find. Right as I was heading into town I found this little sharecropper’s shack rotting off the side of the road that was too good to pass up. I really wanted all of the detail and colors to pop, so this [...]

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: 50mm f/1.7 SMC-A, Alabama, decay, detail, door, green, historic, honeysuckle, old, paint, peeling, Pentax K10D, porch, red, rotten, rotting, rural, rusty, safe, shack, sharecropper, siding, steps, vine, Waverly, wood | Category: photos | Leave a comment

Ever since I started shooting DSLRs with APS-C sized sensors I have struggled to find the perfect go-to lens for the majority of my photos. I love the speed and image quality of my old A series 50mm f/1.7 but the lack of autofocus and relatively tight F0V (75mm equiv.) makes it less than ideal [...]

April 4th, 2009 | Tags: 1:1, 50mm f/1.7 SMC-A, aperture, auto focus, bokeh, close, detail, every day, FA 35mm f/2 AL, field of view, flare, FoV, Fuji F200EXR, handling, K100D, k10d, K2000, K200D, K20D, Km, lens, lens cap, magnification, manual focus, Pentax, portrait, real world, resolution, resolving power, review, Robert S. Donovan, sharp, SMCP-DA 35mm f/2.8 Macro Limited, SMCP-DA* 16-50mm f/2.8 ED AL (IF) SDM, starburst, Stephen Woolverton, studio, test, user | Category: reviews | Comments (8)

After shooting digital for 10 years I finally started shooting RAW exclusively in September 2008. What took me so long? Probably the same thing that keeps most amateur photographers from shooting RAW: the added time and complexity of post-processing RAW images. That all changed when I discovered Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s customizable default development settings. By [...]

March 21st, 2009 | Tags: adobe, All Edges, Apple, As Shot, Basic, Camera Calibration, chromatic aberration, Clarity, contrast, default, Defringe, detail, develop, HSL, import, Lens Corrections, Lightroom, Mac, macro, Pentax 1.00, Pentax K10D, photoshop, Presence, radius, RAW, Restore, Robert S. Donovan, set, settings, Sharpening, Split Toning, Tone Curve, Update, v1.4, Vibrance, Vignetting, white balance, workflow | Category: Tips & Tricks, how to | Comments (4)