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sitting, waiting, wishing

Sorry things have been kind of quiet here lately. This was my first full week back at school and I have been rather slammed. I am in class most of the day and reading Plato and Aristotle during all of my free time. In addition, I got rained on just about everyday this week so [...]

A digital photographer’s thoughts on film

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 [...]

summer reading

The first 5 weeks of my last semester back at school starts Thursday. I have to take four core classes this summer to complete my degree. It’s all stuff that was added to the curriculum since I left 16 years ago. For the first half of the summer I am taking Introducton to Ethics and [...]

Shooting manual lenses on Pentax DSLRs

One of the best things about shooting a modern Pentax DSLR is having access to 35 years worth of wonderful K mount lenses- all with shake reduction! That’s a feature no other camera manufacturer can claim. The problem is that using these lenses effectively on a DSLR is somewhat of a black art that requires [...]

57 flavors of summer

Pentax K10D, SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, ISO 100,  f/1.7, 1/4000 sec, +1.0 EV, IS on
Who says you can’t shoot wide open in broad daylight? Processed using Adobe Lightroom’s Direct Positive preset.