I’m back in Texas (and have been for a couple of weeks). Costa Rica programming will continue for awhile (11 more days, at least), but since this is the last week in the current office, I’m going to try to share some random pictures from this nondescript office park before we move to a different—but …
Category Archives: Photography
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 1
Equifax hired some new linkage people in Costa Rica and sent me down to train them again, this time for 12 days. I arrived Sunday the 15th of February and returned to Dallas on February 27. It was a good trip: the training went well; I stayed in a different hotel in a classy neighborhood …
Flowers by Petzval
Petzval Week Season 3, episode 6: Flowers by Petzval
Houseplants and weeds
Petzval Week Season 3, episode 5 You’ll be happy to know that I did more with the testing than just shoot from the car window. I also shot in the yard on the way from the garage to the house, and in the house, near where I keep the briefcase. There are no limits to …
Fun with Curled film!
Don’t do what I did… or maybe do, now that you know what can happen. Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Curled Film Film curls. Some film curls more than others. Some film rolls up along its length as if it misses being stuffed into the canister. This one can be a bit of …
Steet Photography-ish with the Petzval
Petzval Week Season 3, episode 4 The city is working on making the street corners wheelchair-friendly all up and down Highway 161. Allah knows why. Sure, there’s a train station nearby, and there are a bunch of office parks and light industrial and shopping around, but there are no sidewalks to connect the corners… Cities …
Fun with Flare
Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Flare Quite accidentally, I ended up with a couple of shots that demonstrate the flare characteristics of the Petzval on film (aka full frame). This, of course, is something most competent lens testers would do as a matter of course. But I’m not a lens tester: I’m a …
