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OK, so the current Weekly Challenge, to close in less than an hour from now, is “Curves”. To me, the most obvious concept of curves is the female form. Before this theme was even announced, I'd been experimenting, tinkering with a concept which when this theme was announced, seemed right in...

Am I really the first to post today's solar eclipse? This is from Sacramento, California. Cloud cover was heavy, and I seriously doubted that I would get anything, but at just the right moment, with the eclipse at its peak, it found a convenient gap in the clouds.

Not really wildlife. Not any more, anyway. I understand him to have been abandoned some time in 2018 [Edit: More recent information from a different person whose knowledge is likely more credible, puts his abandonment as early as 2015 or 2016], and to have lived as a sort of semi-stray around...

I picked this up at a thrift store yesterday, and am now trying to make mathematical sense of it. I think that I understand the original application of this device, in connection with stone-aged chemical-based photography, on an enlarger, to be to measure the color of the light being...

We're almost two full days into the next challenge period.

The period for it began several hours ago, but the topic has not yet been announced.

We're just a few hours from when the next challenge is supposed to open for shooting and submissions, but no announcement yet of the theme thereof.

Not really a wedding, but I think the issues involved here are likely to be very similar to those of a wedding, so I figure this is the closest to appropriate category available on this forum. A friend has asked me, on short notice, to photograph his daughter's Quinceañera. I should point...

May is already nearly ¼ over, and still no announced theme for a monthly challenge.

It started several months ago. Unexpectedly, after more than twenty years of marriage, my wife expressed willingness to be photographed while she was bathing, and for me to post such photographs where nobody knows her, as long as they didn't show certain parts that would be covered by a bathing...

An ad that popped up on a web site I was viewing a few days ago. It's probably true. Of course, if it had said “Nikon Quality”, then that would have been an entirely other thing.

A fellow with whom I work, who is even more into photography than I am, and I, were having a conversation in which I mentioned that I have a wonderful old camera that probably won't ever again be used to take pictures, simply because I'm not really into all the fuss, delay, and expense of film...

Last December, as I was taking some pictures out my front door, with my ancient Vivitar 85-205 mounted on my D3200, and intending to make an adjustment to the tripod, I hit the quick-release lever by mistake, sending my camera and lens crashing to the hard floor below. Aside from some...

I was just looking back through a bunch of old threads, and I noticed that Benjamin Kanarek is now banned; which sparked some curiosity on my part. A few of his threads sparked some minor controversy, but I cannot see anything on his part that comes anywhere close to warranting him being...

I thought occurred to me, a question that needed to be asked, as I was looking at a recent thread where the OP praises the virtues of film. I hadn't really paid that much detailed attention to the challenge rules, but was aware that the use of a Nikon camera is called for, as well as EXIF...

An odd curiosity. At some point, I came across an old picture of Brigitte Bardot, holding an SLR. Though the Japanese have long dominated the market for cameras of this type, I have sense that this one is not Japanese, but probably some European make. I guess the Japanese didn't really take...

A bit of moss, and a botany lesson. Notice that there are two form of this plant. The low-leafy plants are gametophytes. These plants are haploid, meaning that each cell nucleus has only one set of chromosomes. In the human life cycle, the only haploid cells are gametes—sperm and egg...

Aperture/Depth_of_field Relationship -- Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 This is a companion to my “Aperture/Depth_of_field Relationship -- Vivitar 85-205mm f3.8 Tele-Zoom” thread. Here, I'm doing the same thing with my about-equally-ancient 50mm ƒ1.4 lens. Like the Vivitar, this is a very old non-AI...

Aperture/Depth_of_field Relationship -- Vivitar 85-205mm f/3.8 Tele-Zoom It got into my head to set my ancient Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 Tele-Zoom lens up on a fixed scene, and take pictures at different aperture settings, to show the effect of aperture on the depth of field and image quality. I...