Yesterday morning, I met up with some fellow members of the North Texas Photography Explorers MeetUp Group for a Scavenger Hunt around downtown McKinney, Tx. The light was abysmal, foggy, lacking any sort of punch, and I used the old Nikon 36-72mm E-Series, which is one of the least contrasty or saturated lenses in my …
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7/52-04 a week with Incredibooth
Last Sunday, I heard the birds chirping outside, and ran out with the camera to try my hand at some birding. I got a few decent shots, but most of it was mediocre. All of my long lenses are fully manual, and while the Vivitar 70-210 is diamond-slicing sharp, my ability to focus in on …
7/52-03 Looking Up
The full title of this week’s 7/52 is “(Things are) Looking Up (I hope).” Of course, given my rather melancholic disposition, I fully expect it all to come crashing down at any moment (whatever I mean by ‘Things’ and ‘all’), despite and because of the fact that things have been on a rather steady upward …
7/52-02 the Castillian’s Flora
I intended to shoot the fora and fauna around the new apartment (the Castillian is the name of these apartments), but managed to be outside without a suitable camera (read: not a phone) all three times that I saw the opossum, and the numerous times I saw squirrels, birds, and various other critters. So it’s just …
7/52-1 exploring light in the new apartment
So today begins my 7/52 project. What is a 7/52 project? It’s sorta like a cross between a 365 project (one picture every day for a year) and a 52 project (one picture per week for a year). The goal for the 7/52 is to produce 7 pictures per week (defined as the period beginning …
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Chinese Lantern Festival Photowalk
Friday the 4th marked the first photowalk of the year with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group (and my first photowalk of the year, period). The lanterns, all built on site over a 3 month stint—were pretty, to be sure, and the dragon—made from an unknown number of plates, bowls, tea bowls, and tiny little …
Pop Quiz Answers
So a few days ago, I posted a pop quiz for those of you who followed my 365 project. Unsurprisingly, no one came up with any answers, though some promised to look again on a bigger screen, or with glasses, or somesuch. So here are the answers: 1. Seven objects that were featured at various …
