Tracie and I spent the weekend in Abilene Texas…an interesting town. Since its Sunday, I wanted to continue the “Five Photos” series with Abilene Texas as the focus. Enjoy.
DPReview hands on review of Samsung NX10
January 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
DPreview.com has a great hands-on review of the newly announced Samsung NX10 DSLR. There’s been a lot of rumors about this camera over the past 6 months with the number of rumors and semi-announcements growing in December 2009. See Gizmodo, Engadget and other tech blogs talking about this camera in recent weeks/months. Well…we found out [...]
Outdoor Photo Gear Reviews Canon 1200mm 5.6 L Lens
January 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
Outdoor Photo Gear reviewed the huge Canon EF 1200mm 5.6 L Supertelephoto Lens ($120,000 at B&H!) I can’t embed the video here due to restrictions by Outdoor Photo Gear but you can watch it on Vimeo here or jump over to Outdoor Photo Gear for the original post. The 1200mm lens is huge – 36lbs, [...]
Samsung Announces NX 10
January 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
SAMSUNG UNVEILS THE NEXT GENERATION OF CAMERA – THE NX10 URL: http://www.samsungusanews.com/2010/01/samsung-launches-the-nx10/ Eidgefield Park, NJ (January 4, 2010) – Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced the Samsung NX10 – an innovative digital camera that provides users with optimum image quality in a sleek, compact body. Delivering [...]
Induro CT314 Carbon Fiber 8X Tripod – Product Review
January 2, 2010 By 16 Comments
My wonderful wife Tracie (a Dallas based photographer) bought me a great tripod for Christmas. I’ve been looking for a good carbon fiber tripod and had been looking at the Gitzo line but a recent review on Luminous Landscape of an Induro 413 gave me another option to look at. What I found was the [...]
My Six favorite photographs of 2009
January 1, 2010 By 13 Comments
Happy new year everyone. I spent the day looking back on the travels of 2009 and the photographs I’ve taken. Many were good, many not so good…some were excellent. I wanted to share the excellent ones with you…I hope you enjoy them too.
Five tips for taking photos through glass
December 28, 2009 By 6 Comments
SimpleScrapper has a few good tips for photographers shooting through glass titled “How to photograph through glass“. With winter upon those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it can be difficult to get outside to enjoy our hobby & passion of photography. When it’s too cold out, try these tips for shooting through your windows: [...]
2010 Best of Journalism Photography Contest – NPPA Call for Entries
December 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The National Press Photographer’s Association has just announced a call for entries for The Best of Photojournalism for 2010. Entries will be accepted starting January 4 2010 and ending January 29. The contest, reportedly the world’s 2nd largest photography contest, is free to enter. Last year, more than 3700 journalists from 147 countries entered their [...]
Richard Earney’s Inside Lightroom 2 Book Review
August 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve read a few books on Lightroom 2 and found most lacking. While not lacking much Richard Earney’s Inside Lightroom 2: The serious photographer’s guide to Lightroom efficiency, there are some deficiencies that cause me to prefer Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) book slightly over this one. [...]
Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Book Review
June 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been walking reading and using Scott Kelby’s The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers and am amazed at how easy Kelby makes things seem. The book is the ONLY book I’d recommend for Lightroom 2. It walks you through everything you’ll ever need to use in Lightroom 2 and provides screenshots for [...]
