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D850, 105mm f/1.8 AIS Nikkor. A single 200WS strobe with barn doors and a 10º honeycomb grid

On Huntington Beach State Park lies the remnants of Archer and Anna Huntington's castle. It is now little more than a shell, all the glass is gone from the windows and nothing remains in any of the rooms. It is quite interesting to walk through, however. It was the winter residence of Archer and...

It is raining like crazy here and I was kind of bored so I decided to do a quick and dirty comparison between my 10.5cm f/2.5 Nikkor-P and 105mm f/1.8 AIS Nikkor. I cut a notch in the aperture ring of the 10.5cm so I could mount it on the D850 and meter with it, a pretty easy task using a Dremel...

It was a busy place for an hour or so with a wide diversity of birds coming to feed on suet. It drove one of my cats to a near nervous breakdown! :excitement: Bluejay Carolina Bluebird Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren (my favorite of the images) Yellow Rumped Warbler

Photographed on a light table, lit from below and behind. The ball on the Martini glass is colored blue so I got an idea to put colored water in it and another glass. I cut a small piece of clear plexiglass and raised the corner of the Martini glass up and then removed it in post processing...

I just now noticed this so there is no telling how long it has been going on because I don't use my D750 all that much, my D850 and D500 get by far the most use. When I go to the menu for Battery Info, the only battery that is displayed is the EN-EL15 in the camera body. I first thought that the...

I got a new toy in the mail the day before yesterday, not exactly a lens but still a chunk of glass that forms an image; an 80mm lens ball. I braved below freezing temperatures and an even colder wind chill this morning to get this image of a sunrise with the D850 and 24mm f/2 AIS Nikkor. I went...

I went out and re-shot the Bright Orion and Running Man nebulae last night with the D-500 and 400mm f/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor. I am quite happy with this one, though cutting my exposure to 0.5 second should, by the MFN calculation, which said 0.4 sec) eliminate star trailing but I still got just a...

I went out last night and started playing around doing some test shots of the Orion Nebula (M42). I set up the D850 on a tripod and mounted my 200mm f/2 ED IF AIS Nikkor. I set the ISO to 3200 and pointed the camera at the northern skies at Orion or more specifically, Orion's "belt". I stopped...

Shot with a D850, 85mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor and a single strobe in a gridded strip light softbox. I like the color but prefer the B&W more since presents a more graphical and abstract approach.

D850, 85mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor. Pretty standard 4 light set up. I do much better on the taking side of the image, Catherine, on the other hand is a natural!

Since the moon will be full tonight. I thought I would photograph it and then every couple of days re-photograph it as it goes through its lunar cycle and composite them all into one image. The weather tonight should be cold and clear, ideal, but we are supposed to get rain for the next few days...

I have been shooting the moon for years with lots of success but after photographing (or rather trying in my opinion at least) to photograph the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction the other night and not being at all happy with the results, I decided to get a telescope. The Celestron Nexstar 8 SE was...

Coming aboard the "Big E", summer 1985. I handed my BN (Bombardier-Navigator in the A-6E Intruder) my camera and told him to snap a few photos of me coming aboard the "Big E" (USS Enterprise, CVN-65). It was a beautiful day in the Mediterranean that day, which made coming aboard actually a lot...

This is the best I can do without an actual telescope. D500, 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS Nikkor and TC-300 2x. Total magnification, including crop factor, is 36x. It took 3 exposures, composited. Jupiter, its moons and Saturn had considerably different luminance's. While I was out there, there was a...

Couldn't sleep the other night and got up and shot the moon. D500, 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS Nikkor (aka "the beast") and TC-300. With the crop sensor factor, lens magnification and teleconverter, a total of 36x magnification. 1/100sec @ f/8 @ ISO 200.

Taken back in 2006 with the F2A, 105mm f/2.5 AIS Nikkor and the superlative Kodak VPS (Vericolor III Professional Film, Type S) film. Man I miss that stuff! Back in the day when you could still get Process C-41 chemistry at reasonable prices!

Well I did, around 2am. It cost me about a half unit of blood to the mosquitoes but it was worth it. D500, 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS Nikkor and TC-300 2x, the equivalent focal length in 35mm is 1800mm. Exposure was 1/125 @f/11 @ISO 125

HS Senior Portraits. From today........... D850, 135mm f/2 AIS Nikkor and fill flash

I had surgery on my left wrist yesterday to remove a nickel-sized ganglion cyst. It had gotten pretty painful and aggravating. It was sitting right on top of the radial artery and radial nerve which complicated the surgery somewhat. The surgery was done under local anesthesia though they did...