Here’s a shot from back in 2005. Sara and I went to Boston for a few days to see what we could see, and we were very graciously hosted by a friend of a friend in an amazing apartment pretty much in the heart of the city.
I was still very much in [...]

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A big thanks to Steve Allison for becoming the first person to contribute to the “Work for Hire” experiment.
Steve purchased the “West Texas Windmill Adventure” package for the bargain rate of $7.34. Yesterday evening, I headed out with my super-hot assistant to the local windmill farm, and captured this one for Steve. I [...]

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I haven’t done much shooting since I got back from Africa last month. The days are slowly getting longer, which means there is actually a little light left when I get home from work, and yesterday I forced myself to walk around the house and yard and try to find something interesting.
These [...]

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As much as I love my new lens (reviewed below), it’s still only 200mm long. Nights like tonight I wish I had a 400mm or 600mm, or access to a telescope. This isn’t very sharp because it was really cold out (it went from a high of 70+ this afternoon to about 35 [...]

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I was bringing groceries in from the car when I saw this sliver of sky between my house and my neighbor’s. I ran inside to grab my camera before the light was gone completely and managed to capture this. The deep blues and the subtle golds as the sun slipped below the horizon [...]

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