With this upcoming Union Pacific 4014 “Big Boy” photo shoot on my mind, the last thing I want is a malfunctioning or misfiring camera. I also want my gear to operate at tip top shape. So I’m doing a test right now. And that “test” is to break out my Nikon F2S camera (“Nikon Athena”)…
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More R1C1 tests: 8+10=pole
I’m still testing out this new-to-me Nikon R1C1 macro flash system, which could give me incredible detail in macro photography, and offer me a more flexible option than my “needs an external power source or lots of batteries” medical Nikkor glass. So over the weekend, I set up my Nikon Df with my manual focus…
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“Herbie Jr :-) was here.”
To explain what I’m doing here … we have to go back to the late 1990’s, when I wrote several articles for Goldmine Magazine. This one, in particular, was a blessing. It was an interview back in the day with Herb Powers, Jr., a record mastering legend. Here’s his current website. Let me introduce you…
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The CO Railfan’s Dream
Here I am, once again, parked on the banks of the Sacandaga River. Here I am, poised and ready for one of the few times when the Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railroad journeys from Corinth to Hadley – and, in doing so, crosses the Sacandaga. Yeah, I know I blogged about taking photos at the…
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Arlington, a Bridge and a Church
For the past three weeks, I’ve hoped to get a swank shot of the covered bridge in Arlington, Vermont – a bridge that spans the Battenkill River and also leads into an access road to a beautiful white-wooden church. It’s one of those quintessential Vermont images. Right up there with pennies in a stream and…
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Returning to the Corinth Reservoir, 2025 Edition
This was a complicated confluence. But somehow, some way … I still achieved great things from it. Let me explain. I adore astrophotography – Milky way, meteors, eclipses, star trails, all of that. And the original plan was to travel to Brown Tract Pond in Raquette Lake, New York – New York’s darkest night sky…
Read MoreA wee little drink from the garden hose
While walking my camera around the Saratoga Race Course last Sunday, I positioned myself for a shot of the horses as they left the starting gate for the fourth race. Figured I’d get a nice angle and capture the horses as they start. While the photo I did get was okay … it really didn’t…
Read MoreYeah, I can fix a camera lens. (Rolling up sleeve) (Saying a prayer)
I purchased this old Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 lens nearly 20 years ago. It was the first external camera lens I’ve ever purchased that wasn’t primarily a kit lens, and I purchased it so that I could capture fast indoor action shots, so long as I had the lens open wide (at f/2.8 aperture) and cranked…
Read MoreWait, the Big E’s photo competition submission date is THIS COMING TUESDAY???
Okay, which one of you messed with my calendars? Here’s how Competition Season is supposed to work. I get my four images ready for Iowa. Then I take a couple of those images, add a few more, get six choices, and submit them for the New York Stater Fair’s photo salon. Then I take the…
Read MoreSometimes it takes a rainy day just to let you know everything’s going to be all right. -Cris Williamson
Today’s headline is the first lyric of singer-songwriter Cris Williamson’s song Waterfall, from her legendary album The Changer and the Changed. Fifty years later, it still holds up today. And it’s kind of an inspiration for today’s blog, as I get back into making my cameras work for me. I need to make sure all…
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