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he Nikon FTn was not the first 35mm SLR, that honor goes to the Kine Exacta, but it was the first true system SLR with a wide range of interchangeable lenses, finders and screen and set the standard when it was introduced in 1959, the year after I was born. This was my first Nikon, a 1969...

I want to St. John's Island (near Charleston) and photographed the Angel Oak Tree. It is a 400-500 year old Southern Live Oak that is 68 feet high, 28 feet in circumference at the base and has a canopy shadow area of 17,000 square feet. It is an AMAZING tree! I wanted the pictures to appear as...

Hey all Do any of you know if there is a commercially available adapter to connect a standard 10 pin synch connector to the D750? I have done a pretty exhaustive search and have come up with nada. All of my other triggers and assorted things to the D850 and D500 use the standard 10 pin...

My fiancé and I went to Charleston, SC for a little day trip. Charleston is a city rich in history and Southern Charm with lots of interesting sights. I snapped a few shots in "Old Charleston" while there. The window was found on "Rainbow Row", which is a block of very old "Row Houses" painted...

Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, SC. Nikon D750, 400mm f/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor

I broke out the sewing machine and covered my "new" 400mm F/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor with Realtree fabric. All of my other long telephotos have already been done. Each piece is cut from heavy weight cotton fabric and with velcro strips at both ends. Camouflaging the lens comes in very handy when...

I am selling it after 11 years and replacing it with a D750. With all of the wading/shore bird photography I am doing, I am wanting to have 3 bodies with the 200mm f/2, 400mm f/2.8 and 600mm f/4 ED-IF Nikkors mounted at the ready. For me, fast prime glass is the only way to go. My D700 has...

I caught this Tri-color Heron stalking a fish yesterday with the D850. Sharp as a razor!

A 400mm f/2.8 ED-IF AIS Nikkor. Man is it a beauty! Sharp as a freakin' razor and though it is no lightweight at almost 10lbs, it is light enough to be hand held, something I just cannot do with my 14lb+ 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS BEAST which is just too heavy and bulky to be able to hand hold and...

It looks like something out of a 1950's B-movie sci fi flick but it works like a champ. You can vary each of the two flashes from full power to 1:128 independently and it has a pilot light to aid in focusing in dim light. You can twist each flash into an infinite array of positions. I shot...

D850/105mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor w/ PN-11. 47 images focus stacked.

A cute little bugger, only 8mm leg tip to leg tip front to back. D850, 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor (reversed) on a PB-6 bellows

And finally found a Minolta Color Meter IIIF for a good price. This one is in mint condition and they are rare and usually command a pretty high price ($450-$500) but I think the seller did not do their research before he listed it! I got this one for about $330. They only read color...

There are times when the tide is low at one of my favorite shore bird haunts and it coincides with sun being at my face rather than at my back. I started using a hotshoe mounted flash to fill in the shadows and put a catchlight in the bird's eye but using the "Beast" to photograph birds often...

New home construction is everywhere! These two paper wasps are building a small nest on the top door jamb of our front door. I used the D850 and my 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor focused to 1:2 and added some fill flash with a ring flash. I taped a piece of white copy paper on the door and closed...

Ok, this is just plain CREEPY. I euthanized a giant (almost 3" from leg tip to leg tip) Golden Silk Orb Weaver spider with ethyl acetate two days ago. Within 5 minutes she rolled over and stopped moving. But because she was so much bigger than any spider I have euthanized and photographed in the...

Don't get me wrong, I love my 600mm f/4 but to be brutally honest, it is a BEAST of a lens at 14 pounds. Add the D850 or D500 with the grip, gimbal head and tripod (even though it is carbon fiber) and the rig tips the scales at around 25 pounds. Carrying it over the shoulder for any distance is...

A portrait from the way-back. D700 and 180mm f/2.8 ED with fill flash

This spider and her egg case was out in the garage. I placed a potted plant behind it to give a more interesting background than just bare concrete and lit it with a strobe overhead and bounced in an umbrella. D850 and 105mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor

I was in the backyard yesterday doing a little cleanup when I spotted something under the deck. I picked it up and noticed the symmetry of the little filaments. It turned out to be about 15 eggs laid by a Green Lacewing on a dead pine needle. It looks like one has already hatched (the second...