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Somehow, for whatever reason, looking across photo forums and books you will be bound to see pictures of the trunks  of trees, stumps, pith, and whatever perspective on wood seems to captivate people. Here is my contribution to this common order of i...
They are also rather large. I can take out a caliper to get a more precise measurement. In this photo I tried to go after a certain look I could get with relative ease on film. I more or less got it with some tinkering in Pix. The setup was rather qu...
Color balance at 6000k ISO 800 1/50 sec@ f4.
Part of the fun in getting a new camera or lens is testing it out. I have all the primes from my film camera and they performed as expected, but I was curious to see what I would get with my old beater lens. It is an old 1970's era Vivitar 85-205mm A...
Not exactly trying to win a contest here. The wildfires up in Canada blew so much smoke as to make the air smell like burning rubber here in suburban Chicago. This picture was snapped at 2:45 PM on the 16th of July 2026. The electrical transmission l...