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Interesting information. I bought all my lighting equipment a few years ago, and Phottix was a big name at the time. It was not so long ago, but it seems that in the meantime, Phottix has completely disappeared from the radar screens. The company could have keeled over, for all I know, even...

I welcome you, even though I joined after you! :) I admit I have already started posting like a madman. :rolleyes:

That sounds like a sensible anchor! To say nothing of the dawgs, of course. :giggle: I will try to show you life in France and other European countries through my photos, then. Talking about European countries, how about a short trip to Rome, Italy? This is a photo of Saint Peter’s I took in...

I do see where you're coming from, and you're certainly entitled to have that opinion, which sounds very sensible. If I meant to make a joke, I would say “I’m a bad workman as it is, so I better have the absolute best tools available, at least they will help me a little...” But the truth of the...

I think you're right about CameraRAW being free, although I am not sure. If I do five minutes of genuine mind-searching, I must admit that I also appreciate the simplicity of it all. Yes, I have to pay every month, but boy, do I get top performance for what I pay! It costs less than Netflix and...

Right. When not using it, I store all my gear in a large safe (a gun safe, originally, so quite tall for rifles and roomy) with three bags of German-made Pingi XL dessicant. I find them on Amazon, and you can probably, too. The little pinguins on ’em turn brownish when they’re full of humidity...

I do not do a lot of vertical panoramas, as most of my subjects tend to spread along the horizontal instead (that applies to most landscapes as well). I have tried the so-called “Brenizer effect” (Ryan Brenizer is a good friend, wedding photographer in New York) which consists in using a longer...

I am always happy to present my beloved “old stones”, of course, and most of the time I have to make a conscious effort not to expand too much on the contextual or historical information I provide, lest I bore my audience... Enthusiasts in any field are like that. Yet, and in spite of my...

Well, if I ever develop a heart illness, I will probably deem it safe to have myself cut open by the heart surgeons at the National Heart Hospital! :rolleyes: Who do you think could be more qualified to open a Nikon lens than an official Nikon Service Center? And why would we here be qualified...

Thanks guys for your visits and kind comments. Today’s photo is about a giant Romanesque cathedral built in the middle of nowhere, on an island between mainland France and the Mediterranean Sea (nowadays, it is a peninsula reachable by road). Truly a monument out of one of those role-playing...

The good news is, all of it is just a few hours’ flight away... and you could even surprise yourself and like the life here in Europe... A few days ago there was this story in the news about some American girl athlete who was amazed to discover the existence and quality of free healthcare at the...

Hello Dawg, yes I saw your reply to my introduction thread and I thanked you. Information had already been passed to me by Needa but thanks anyway! And thanks also for your nice words about my photos, that's very kind.

A few years ago, one of the groups I then belonged to on Flickr had the great idea to propose a themed challenge comprised of a series of three photos and called “Autobiography”. In three photos, posted one week after the other, you were supposed to describe your life, first as a child, then as...

Thanks Dawg.

True, I remember driving out to Logan Airport and back to Worcester, Mass., one evening just before Christmas, in a rear-wheel drive Volvo 264 that had seen better days, to pickup my sister-in-law... The return trip on Route 90 with that sort of snow dusting you show in the photo was quite...

Good luck with it! I gave up Affinity when I realized there was no way they would beef up their lens database to include the niche lenses I use. They do (or did, at the time, I'm talking 7-8 years ago) rely on volunteer contributions to expand that database... Adobe includes all new lenses...

Thank you and thank you ! :giggle:

Some of the above are really fun! I have nothing so humorous to offer, unfortunately, but below are some photographs of my previous vehicle, a Hyundai Tucson 4WD (I need the four-wheel drive because of the places I need to go to shoot sometimes). ... and below is my new vehicle, a Peugeot...

Oh, Adobe are evil for sure, and the subscription scheme is akin to extortion. I hate having to pay them every month. I've tried Affinity, I've tried Darktable, I've tried them all, free or not... and still I return, disgruntled and unhappy, to Adobe, because Lightroom and Photoshop are simply...

The photographers’ food chain in Venice At the Venice Carnival a few years ago, this young female photographer was shooting a costumed person. Another female, interested, happened by and shot her shooting him. I, seeing all of this, took a snap of them all. I wonder if I should have turned...