Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Last year, someone gifted me a solar lens filter, with the challenge of photographing the upcoming total eclipse on August 21, 2017. I take challenges seriously. Believe me, I do. Heck, it took me two years of planning to capture the “blood moon eclipse” two years ago – everything from scouting possible shooting locations to…
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It’s Sunday afternoon, and I want to test out a lens I haven’t used in a while – my super-telephoto Soviet cadiatrophic lens, the MC MTO-11, an 1100mm f/16 piece of glass that can pick up images half a mile away. My plan – stand at one end of the half-mile oval at Saratoga Harness…
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I got there. I got the photos. And I got away. That’s usually the gist of my photographic excursions on Independence Day. And I’ve got the pictures to prove it.
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The other evening, I drove to the Corinth Reservoir and took some test photos of the Milky Way galaxy. These were test images for when I make my return trip this year to the Boreas Ponds. And you know I shall return, just like General MacArthur at the Philippines. During my shoot, I made a…
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It’s midnight, maybe half past midnight, and I just drove up to Saratoga County on what was essentially a lark. Or, as I like to call it, a dress rehearsal. Follow me on this. At some point in time this summer, I’m planning on returning to the Boreas Ponds and capturing the photograph of my…
Read MoreA few months ago, I backed a Kickstarter campaign for the Solarcan, a mass-produced pinhole camera that will capture a very long exposure – instead of minutes or hours, this camera is designed to capture an image over a period of months. The Solarcan was created by Sam Cornwell, who initiated the Kickstarter campaign to…
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Photography has the ability to not only capture a moment in time, it also has the ability to soothe the soul. There were countless times when I was in a dark place in my life, where I thought that things would never get better. In those moments, I would grab a camera or three, jump…
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I’ve wrangled and battled and searched through my images. And for me, trying to find six worthy candidates for the New York State Fair photography competition is like trying to find my six best ears of corn in a thirty-acre cornfield. It ain’t easy. The procedures and processes for picking my six entries for the…
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The photo you see here was taken with the most powerful marco lens I’ve ever owned, a Zhong Yi Mitakon super-macro lens. Its most powerful setting – four and a half times normal size. I am not kidding. Four and a half freakin’ times normal size. Holy John C. Holmes, Batman… Anyways, Zhong Yi Optics,…
Read MoreOf late, I’ve really enjoyed my new Irix 15mm f/2.4 super-ultrawide rectilinear camera lens. I used it last month to capture my Stone, Saltwater, Surf and Seagulls picture, which is already aimed for Competition Season 2017. But one picture does not a lens purchase make. I need to see what else this lens can create.…
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