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I don't think I have posted this image before, if I have forgive me. Beresford is little more than a crossroads in the heart of the South Dakota farmland. I passed this old abandoned farmhouse on my way back from Sioux Falls one weekend and had to stop. I have no idea when it was abandoned but...

I got into a discussion over on Photo.net with a guy, no doubt a member of "generation digital" who has never picked up a film camera, about old vs. new Nikkor glass. His presumption was that newer Nikkors were "so much better coated" than older Nikkors which had bad ghost problems. I...

I was out behind our Koi pond this afternoon and lo and behold what do I see? Three Brown Widow spider webs. When people think of Widow spiders they pretty much think of the ubiquitous Black Widow. But the truth is that there are also Brown and Red Widow spiders as well. We do not have any Red...

This is a pretty tight crop of the flamingo. Our state bird is the common mockingbird. Really? A bird with the name COMMON in it? Boooooooring!!! The Flamingo is a bird that if most often associated with our Sunshine State. They are very colorful and gorgeous birds. Why in the hell do we have a...

It was really her first photographic foray using the gear I got her last year for our anniversary. She did take some good photos! I don't know why I bothered to take along all of the gear I did, the only two lenses I used were the 300mm f/2.8 and 600mm f/4. Most of the time I was shooting...

Gotta love B&W for images like this...........

I got my 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor P back from the camera doc today (oil on the blades, an easy and inexpensive fix) and I decided for grins to do an A-B comparison with my 105mm f/1.8 AIS Nikkor. In every review I have read, and by my own comparison, the f/1.8 is slightly better than the f/2.5 AIS. I...

Boudoir shoot with Lauren today. She is a natural and simply drop dead gorgeous. D700, 85mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor

I may burst a few bubbles here, but cameras are not nearly as smart as many think, in fact they can be outright dumb at times. When you rely on autofocus, you are taking what the camera thinks you should be focusing on, however it may not be what YOU want to focus on. This is especially critical...

God Bless America........and Lynnsey too! Another shot from this session

Taken this afternoon with the D700 and 85mm f/1.4 AIS and weak (20%) fill flash. The last time I photographed Lynnsey and Brooklyn together, she was three weeks away from delivering her. 45 minutes later a wicked storm came in from the north and spit out a half dozen water spouts! If you don't...

I just could not HELP MYSELF. I walked into the local camera store two days ago and on the used camera/lens shelf sat a time machine to my beginnings with Nikon. A Nikon FTn and 50mm f/2 Nikkor H. I picked it up, fondled it a bit and was immediately transported back to 1974. At the time I...

Here is the matriarch of that herd. She was probably around 900-1000 pounds

After 4 days out at the nests and about 200 frames, I finally got the shot I was after. I wish the sun had been to her face rather than her back but I guess you can't have everything. Maybe I will go back one late afternoon when the sun is in the west and try again but for right now I am pretty...

This is a cemetery shot of the ENTIRE cemetery. a 360º, 16 stitched image panorama of the Barrancas National Cemetery in town.

This is actually a Photoshop composite of two images taken with my F4E. The first one was without Caitlyn, the second one with. The film developed and both negative frames were scanned. I cut Caitlyn out and pasted her into the first one, exactly where she was seated in the other one. I then...

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I am looking for a small, lightweight and inexpensive ringflash. I don't expect it will get a whole lot of usage so I am not looking to drop a lot of money on it. I am assuming for the price that it is NOT a dedicated unit, but I could be wrong I plan on using it more for fill than as the...

This COULD have been the "money shot" I have been searching for. Ok, I admit, my patience grew a little thin with this female after 1.5 hours. All she did was sit and squawk. I had the camera set up, focus pre-set and a remote trigger plugged into the camera. I got up and rousted her from her...

Ok, I did not like the blah sky so I added a little color............