I was saving this one for a day when I couldn’t make it outside due to inclement weather or other factors. Guess what? Other factors… But this here represents something greater than 12:1. The white smudges are mm hash marks in a metal ruler, and the stuff at the top is the edge of that …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.119 Moving? or Recycling? or just picking?
While speeding down the highway on my way home after a longer-than-it-shoudl’ve-been type of shift, I spotted this truck, loaded to the brim (and beyond) with all manner of bric-a-brac, and decided to snap a couple of shots of it through the window. I didn’t want to slow down, and it took me a minute …
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365.118 Kaleidoscopic
Well… I tried, but I got about half a block from the apartment and realized that I was trying to practice my street photography in a rough-ish neighborhood where most everyone is mostly suspicious of most everyone else, which wouldn’t be so bad except it was just after school let out so the only people …
365.117 Catfish, Livers
This is my first real attempt at a street photograph. I’ve been wanting to try some street shooting in hopes of using the long walks and (weak) interactions with strangers to help me get over some of my fears and get a bit of exercise. Today, I succeeded, partly. I walked down Gaston to Munger, …
365.116 Jeez! Get a Room!
Just trying to take an innocent photowalk with the Kiron-made Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5, when what do I come upon but a bee with his proboscis shoved into a little flower. It’s disgusting what bees and flowers get on to, right out in public and all. I mean… /jk. I tried to catch various bees a …
365.115 …what I did all morning…
is less exciting and far less useful than the 40 seconds that this crazy reflected light shone on the wall. Luckily, I dropped what I was doing, whipped out the camera, and fired off half a dozen shots in AP mode at various -EV settings, otherwise I would be cursing myself and wondering what to …
365.114 for lack of a better shot…
As promised, I took the Kiron-made Vivitar 20-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (version 1) to try and test its bee-shooting performance against the Zomb-E Series and the Tokina AT-X 35-200mm f/3.5-4.5. Of course, it is about 20 degrees colder in Dallas today than yesterday, and the bees are all napping, so that will have to wait …
