Yesterday I drove to Vermont for a small photo trip. Nothing major, just a quick 2+ hour jaunt to Woodstock, Vermont to capture some covered bridges with my cameras. My original plan was to photograph the Middle Covered Bridge in the heart of Woodstock, and after driving around the little town green 15 times to…
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The Jump
A few weeks ago, I visited the Schaghticoke Fair in Rensselaer County. It was basically a day trip – just to see the Fair and consider my options on whether I ever wanted to enter something in competition there. The rules are kinda vague – they prefer entrants from Rensselaer County for their competitions, but…
Read MoreA Trip to the Big E, 2023 Edition
And with my trip last Sunday to the Eastern States Exhibition (the “Big E”) in Massachusetts, my Competition Season 2023 is complete. Of the two entries I submitted to the Big E’s photography competition, only one – A Bicolor Sunflower – was accepted. So, as usual … I planned my trip out as carefully as…
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The Buena Vista Panorama project: Getting a panorama out of my Rolleiflex camera.
Back when I blogged for the Albany Times Union years and years ago, one of my fellow bloggers, Teri Conroy, gifted a camera from her attic to me. The camera was a Rolleiflex Automat MX twin-lens-reflex camera, and damn it was a workhorse. I acquired some swank photos from it over the years, and with…
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Results of the 45th Annual Capital District Photo Regionals
Background. Once upon a time, many many years ago, when I first put film in a camera and tried to take a picture with it … I thought my shots were good. Worthy. Definitely deserved some art-wall exposure. Then my daydreams crashed into reality. And not only were my artworks rejected in competition and in…
Read MoreIs a Nikon Zf camera in my future?
Today, Nikon released the news. They are introducing a true retro full-frame mirrorless camera. And as they did when they produced the Nikon Df camera (of which I own two), their new shooter is called the Zf. Here’s a link to Nikon’s advertising page and all the camera’s specs. So let me see what this…
Read MoreSo I shot some geese over the weekend.
Last Saturday, I went to Washington Park with the express plan of testing out some new film in one of my old cameras. No, those pictures haven’t been developed yet. But as I finished my film photo shoot and was putting away my camera gear, I noticed some people at the Washington Park lake. They…
Read More’81 Camaro, Slightly Used
There’s an old joke among car aficionados that a car’s brand name isn’t a true name, but is actually an acronym that could be equated to a sick burn. For example, “FORD” could stand for either “Found On Road Dead,” “Fix Or Repair Daily,” or “Found Outside Rotting Dump.” “FIAT” could stand for “Fix It…
Read MoreSkywatchers
Sometimes the best moments in photography occur when you look up … and you grab the first camera your hands can grasp. I took some shots of the elevated gondola ride at the New York State Fair earlier this year. Some of the shots were captured with my Nikon F2S pink-skinned camera (“Nikon Athena”). But…
Read MoreMy 2023 photo entries for the Durham Fair are …
My final run at Competition Season 2023 take place at the Durham Fair in Connecticut. So far this year, 2023 hasn’t gone as strongly as I would have liked, and maybe I can end the season with a good showing at Durham. Because the Durham Fair takes place so late in the year, I usually…
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