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It is not common for me to go downtown. Mainly I have to take a trip to the suburbs from time to time. This time I was meeting up for a gathering of wristwatch collectors. We did a guided walk to the higher-end watch sellers and drooled over their inventory.

I did a walk in downtown Chicago back in 2008. At the time I was shooting a D80 and using an older 24mm f/2.8D lens. Difference today is that I revisited the original Jpegs (this is before Raw processing for me) and worked them in RawTherapee. Originally I would have just made small adjustements...

I use Peak Design's Anchor Link system. Straps tend to stay off of my cameras until I need one now. I might install a Peak Design Cuff just to keep a camera secure to my hand. I might install the full-sized Slide strap for a longer walk or carry. The Anchor Links can take some twisting without...

It appears to be true, but only if you drive away from the cities there. Very dark at the Rio Grande.

A couple more of that same hawk.

For a D810, the Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary is very good at wildlife. You can buy much better, but not a whole lot better for the money invested. My own Milky Way photos to date were done with a crop sensor D7000 and Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 Art, then later a D750 with Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Art. The...

Oh yeah, I did some IR work in July.

Slightly less green.

I have a 150mm square light pollution filter. What it does really is filter out a narrow band of light that equates to those magenta-pinkish street lights that were even more common before LED street lights. Those are sodium-based lights that are nearly monochromatic. That band is still...

As green as it gets. https://imgur.com/iWWSwP9

An urban hawk, and somewhat tame. Only had a 70-200mm lens to use. Z5 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR

Bad things are going to happen. Very bad things.

Anybody want to trade their ham 'n cheese for a worm?

A day of experimentation. I tried out my Zeiss 15mm f/2.8 Distagon on the IR D600. It has a hot-spot, so I don't think I will try that again. I hoped for good, dramatic clouds with storms in the day's forecast. The morning was simply a solid overcast with no texture. Another wind farm near...

Prime Day normally does not feature the big name brands. As usual, I did not see any lens I might be interested in. But I did think to browse for a new backpack. I have never been overly pleased with my Lowepro Mini-Trekker that I bought 2nd-hand about 13 years ago. So I bought this "PGYTECH"...

I cannot decide which wind turbine series I like better. Color one day, infrared the other.

There were storms in the forecast for 7-11-2022, so I brought the infrared camera along to work. Clouds did not happen as I planned though. Spring Green, WI lunchtime The blackbirds are extra-black in infrared. Downtown Madison, WI at end of workday.

Since July 4th events were a rainout, I spent some time photographing the flowers at my sister's home between rain. Using my Zeiss 15mm f/2.8 Distagon as close-in as I could. Physically about 3-4 inches from the planters

An attempt to show the balance points of the lens at 150mm and 600mm. This is with a D750 plus an attached L-bracket mounted. This is a heavier back-end than you would have with D3400 or similar smaller body camera, so I would expect that at 600mm it would be necessary to slide even further to...

A wind farm near Fennimore, Wisconsin.