About a Picture – 18

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Sep 062011
 

Earlier from Philadelphia…

The previous posting has pictures from a recent trip to Philadelphia.  That reminded me of a shot taken in 2004 (I believe) early one morning from a hotel room window…Hand-held, pressed against the window for steadiness

I’m not sure how good a picture it really is, but I’ve always liked the “atmospherics”.  This how it feels to be in a strange room in a strange city early in the morning.

Early Morning in Philadelphia

This was shot with a Leica M6, using a 35mm f/2.5 Cosina/Voigtlander lens on Ilford chromogenic B&W film and scanned.

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Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA

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Aug 272011
 

Evening Walkabout With the Fuji X100

Attending a conference earlier this week a couple of blocks from the river game me a chance to do a little walking around with the Fuji X100.  The X100 imposes one significant restriction; it has a fixed focal length lens.  No zoom, so you have to compose by thinking through things a little more, and moving the camera (an yourself) instead of zooming the lens (or changing lenses).  That said, the camera’s large sensor and good low-light characteristics give the photographer more technical capacity to work with.

USS Olympia and USS Becuna:  To say that the cruiser  Olympia is iconic is a bit of an understatement.  Commodore Dewey’s flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay, Olympia also transported the remains of America’s Unknown Soldier from France to the United States in 1921.  The fate of Olympia is uncertain, and the ship may be moved, sunk for a reef, or scrapped.  Keeping old ships afloat is very expensive and requires period dry-dockings which may run into the millions of dollars.  Dry berthing, now being studied for the battleship USS Texas, is initially expensive, but may be the only practical way to save these very old hulls.

Becuna is a late WWII submarine which made five war patrols.  Becuna was decommissioned in 1969.

The cruiser USS Olympia and submarine USS Becuna

USS New Jersey:  Berthed across the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey as a museum, this ship is an Iowa class battleship, the final class of battleship completed by the US Navy.  New Jersey was laid down in 1940 and commissioned in 1943, the second of six ships of her class, four of which were completed.  New Jersey was decommissioned for the final time in 1991.

USS New Jersey, framed by the restaurant/club ship Moshulu

I like the swans and the color…

Swan boats and kayaks

Local guys fishing near the observation tower. USS Olympia and Philadelphia in the background.

Fishing

There’s just something incongruous about these swan boats watching over an old warship through the night.  Or maybe it’s the other way around.

Swan boats and USS Olympia at night

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An Afternoon With the Fujifilm X100

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Aug 142011
 

It’s been a while…

I’ve got a new camera — a Fujifilm X100.  This is a bit of throwback, since it emulates the classic 35mm, fixed lens rangefinder cameras of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.  In practice, I think that the X100 will be both a complement to my Leica digital rangefinder camera, and a good camera to carry as the camera — when I don’t want all the other stuff.

With bad weather threatening today, I decided to take Metro down the the Phillips Collection.  I really haven’t taken the X100 out on enough trips so…

This first shot deals with my fascinations with motion and with mass transit.

West Falls Church Metro Station

Fujifilm X100, ISO 800, 1/6 sec, f/16

The gauze effect of the special shades at the Phillips Collection — looking onto the Hunter Courtyard.

Through a Window at the Phillips Collection

Fujifilm X100, ISO 400, 1/50 sec, f/5.6

And heading home on Metro, during a wait at one of the stations.

Metro Trains Halted in Station

Fujifilm X100, ISO 800, 1/9 sec, f/4.0

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About a Picture – 17

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Jun 192011
 

Action or Story?

Sometimes you get lucky enough to have two or more frames to choose from.  Or maybe that’s not lucky.  In this case, the first picture is mostly about the the action, while the second tells more of the story.  (The metadata embedded in the file shows that they are taken less than a second apart.)  To even be faced with a choice is a bit of luck, but as Woody Allen said, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

I like the story shot.  Shorter on action, it shows the two key players as they realize the outcome of the play.

Observation:  It would be very rare to see a shot as wide as the second one in an American newspaper.  To make the players large enough, this would need to be close to a half page wide.  American papers just don’t allow that kind of real estate for soccer — especially women’s soccer.  But you do see more shots like that in the European press.

Action

Story

This last shot is another example of Woody Allen’s observation on success.

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About a Picture – 16

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May 152011
 
My Ride (Retro/Industrial)

Just a little photo-diversion…Checking out a new camera (Fujifilm X100) with the scooter in the lower level of the Metro garage.

Piaggio MP3 500 (Shot with Fujifilm X100)

This started out as a normal color image, but was rendered in B&W in Photoshop using Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro.  The fill flash also lit up the reflective rim tape and speed tape.

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About a Picture – 15

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Feb 222011
 

Funny how conversations go — and what comes out of them.

Jim Hamilton runs an online key duplication service for motorcycles and scooters.  Last week he called my cell phone to confirm my shipping address and missed me (I was underground on Metro).  I called back from the Vienna station and missed him.  Later, he caught me at home.  After a couple of minutes of business, we spent some time just talking.  When the topic of locksmiths came up, I remembered this photo that has been hanging around wherever I live for years and years.

Key Man

This was shot in 1972 or 1973.  The gentleman in the picture ran a locksmith/key shop on San Carlos Street, probably between 3rd and 4th Streets.  The shop was, quite literally, in a stairwell.  Thousands of keys hanging on little hooks in front of little paper tags — stretching up those stairs.  You did your business from the sidewalk, and could only see all the way up if you kinda hunkered down and peered into the dimness.

My first encounter was when I was looking for a duplicate key for a Fiat 1100 sedan.  The locksmith walked up several steps, looked a bit, and came back with my blank.

This was a few blocks from San Jose State University where I majored in Photojournalism.  There was a great deli nearby, and also real magazine “rack”, actually a store — the kind with magazines and newspapers from all over the world.

Later I went back to shoot a few pictures.  The camera was probably a Pentax Spotmatic 35mm SLR.  The lens was a Vivitar 28mm f/2.5 — an incredibly sharp lens.  The film was undoubtedly Kodak Tri-X.  The back of the photo mount is labeled “Environmental Portrait”.

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Another Camera? Panasonic DMC-TS2

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Feb 132011
 
Sorry.  I can’t help myself.

This isn’t the usual kind of camera I’ve been acquiring lately, but I was looking for something that was very easy to carry around and would be resistant to hazards.  I hadn’t looked at Panasonic cameras recently after an uninspiring experience with a Lumix LM2.  Panasonic chose to invoke noise reduction even in the RAW files (an action which prompted an online petition drive) and the overall performance wasn’t all that great.  The only happy news from the experience was that I sold it on eBay for more than I paid for it.

But on my recent short vacation back to Oregon, I got thinking on the need for a pocketable compact camera again.  My brother gave his wife a Panasonic and as I played around with it, I found that the user interface was acceptable, and the feature set allowed a certain amount of flexibility.  The things I didn’t like were the retractable lens and the startup delay that lens imposes.  Also, those retractable lenses represent a pathway for stuff to get inside the camera mechanism.

I spent a few hours online researching manufacturers sites and looking at reviews.  After visiting a few stores, I decided on the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2

Some major factors in my decision were:  Wide-angle lens (the equivalent of a 28mm lens on a 35mm camera); weatherproof/waterproof; folded lens path (no delay on startup for the lens to extend); and optical image stabilization (I just think it’s a better solution to move one lens around than to move the entire sensor around).  Orange?  Since they didn’t offer it in black…

Folded Lens Path -- Allows Camera to be Sealed.

Early in January I went to my usual test location — the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy facility of the National Air and Space Museum — to give it a try.  It’s not a brightly lit venue, and the lighting is mixed.  This puts you right at the edge of a camera’s performance, so you can blow a shot without really trying hard.  A good place for a test.

Images.

There are some brief exposure notes under each image.  I used a monopod for all the shots, with the camera’s image stabilization turned on.  Post processing was in Photoshop; adjusting the curves (for white and black point), cropping a little, Noise Ninja, and some light sharpening

f/3.3 @ 1/10 sec, ISO 400

f/3.3 @ 1/13 sec, ISO 400, -1/3 stop

f/3.5 @ 1/20 sec, ISO 400, -1/3 stop

f/4.0 @ 1/5 sec, ISO 400, -1/3 stop

To be certain, there is no way that these images can reveal all the performance details of the camera.  Noise reduction is smeary and chunky — and you can’t turn it off and just use a post processing tool such as Noise Ninja.  In terms of image quality, the TS2 is nowhere close to what I can get with my Leica M8 and a Zeiss or Leica lens.  But I certainly find the results acceptable for the purpose of having a camera that’s handy and rugged.

And, naturally, a little over month after I bought my TS2, Panasonic announces the TS3.  The TS3 adds GPS and also has a little bit of a grip on the right side (the lack of a grip was mentioned in several TS2 reviews).  Oh well.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS3

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Poland, 2010: Day 1 – Gdansk (arrival)

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Sep 082010
 

You know you’re in Gdansk when…

Crossing over to the Green Gate - Evening in Gdansk - Ferries and the Crane.

…You look down the Stara Motława and see the crane (that tall dark structure on the left bank that almost hangs over the water).

Gdansk (Danzig when the Prussians or Germans controlled its history), while not held in the same romantic historical regard as Krakow or Warsaw, nonetheless is practically bursting at the seams with history and historical connections.

This was just an evening stroll after crashing in the hotel.  (I’m no longer fighting it…My arrival day in Europe might as well be dead time.)

The stroll turned into dinner outdoors on ulica Długa.

Ulica Długa is yet another part of another city in Poland blasted to bits during WWII — and painstakingly restored with the help of old photos and paintings.  Gdansk became known more for it’s massive Lenin Shipyard (birthplace of Solidarity) and related industries.  As a result, some of the rebuilding and reconstruction has been later coming.

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About a Picture – 14

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Jul 282010
 

This isn’t my shoe.  It was just sitting there.  Honest.

Tuesday morning — sitting on one of those granite Metro benches as I changed trains at Crystal City.

So I grabbed a shot with my phone in the two minutes before my train came.

I had to rest the camera on the bench because it is dark in there and flash would have been totally inappropriate.  The picture is still pretty cruddy.  So as much as I dislike doing it, I “rescued” the shot with PhotoShop’s Dry Brush — and the result probably says as much as an image more precisely captured and rendered.

I’m sure there is a story behind the shoe, but I don’t know if it would be at all interesting.

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About a Picture – 13

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Jul 052010
 

Speakers’ Corner, London

A man trying to make a point, and a cyclist flashing by.  A bit metaphoric perhaps?

Speakers’ Corner is a London institution.  Every Sunday, in the north-east corner of Hyde Park near the Marble Arch, folks (guys mostly) attempt to persuade both the passersby and the intentional “attendees”.  As an institution, Speakers’ Corner is protected by a series of codes and case law.  It is virtually woven into the fabric of British political ethos.

Over the years from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth, the topics of discussion were often political.  Intense debate from the likes of Lenin, Marx, and George Orwell.  And from time-to-time political or social topics do still manage to surface on a Sunday afternoon.

But today, most of the speakers are religious.  Religious discussion is fine, but when you get someone who is prepared to spend a couple of hours on a footstool or stepladder, dialogue is not their intent.  Most religious speakers are not looking for consensus or compromise.  They are looking for people who are in total – or near total – agreement.  And they are boring.  And that’s a shame.

Looking at Speakers’ Corner in the context of this century, it would be easy to believe that it has lost some of its “magic” — a bit past its prime.  But from another point of view, Speakers’ Corner is an institution where perhaps the greatest value lies in its potential.  Suffering countless boring religious zealots year in and year out, Speakers’ Corner is prepared to flower at a moment’s notice – a social and political safety valve.

I guess I can suffer the zealots.  They’re keeping the lights on.

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About a Picture – 12

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Jun 132010
 

When Equipment Drives the Results

Sports photography is one of those areas of the craft where the equipment really does make a difference.  (If you think you’ll get results from the kids’ soccer match like those shown in the Canon TV commercials without spending from $1,800 to $6,000 for each lens — you’re living in Fantasyland.)

I typically shoot soccer sitting on a folding stool.  One Nikon D300 on a monopod has a 300mm f/2.8 lens (often with 1.4x converter).  A second D300 mounts a 70-200 f/2.8 lens which, with a converter, weighs just under 7 pounds.  I shoot long shots with the 300, and when the action gets closer, I lean the monopod against my left leg, and reach down to my right and swing up the camera with the zoom (the 6 1/2 pound curl).

The problem with the original Nikon 70-200 is that the contacts (for camera-lens communication) tend to oxidize.  When this happens, the lens won’t auto-focus.  Some at Nikon, even after eight years, don’t readily acknowledge the problem, though it has been widely discussed online — especially among sports photographers.  The consensus solution is to use Caig DeoxIT to clean and protect the contacts on the lens and the internal connections.  Despite Nikon’s reluctance to accept the problem, the proof to many is that the DeoxIT works.  But you do need to clean the lens contacts regularly.  And I didn’t.

So for Saturday’s Majestics match the 70-200 fired about six shots — and stopped focusing.  Nothing I could do in the field helped.  So I was down to just the 300mm lens.

The team's first goal of the season.

The question is my mind is whether or not I would have made these shots if I had been switching back and forth between the two cameras.  The advantage is that with only one camera and lens, you just track the action all the time.  However, sitting just behind the goal line and near the corner, a lot of action is just too close, and the framing is difficult — and too tight.  On the other hand, there is no time lost switching between cameras.

The aesthetic and creative contradiction:  Shooting with just one lens simultaneously restricts and releases you.

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About a Picture – 11

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May 292010
 

Women’s Soccer…

Today I shoot the home opener for the Northern Virginia Majestics.  They are an amateur team which is primarily made up of collegiate players — though occasionally foreign players are on the roster.

This shot is from last year (Majestics in blue)…

You can learn more about the Majestics through their web site.  All the game shots on their site are mine — I’ve been shooting the team since 2003.

Technical:  The photo was taken with a Nikon D300 camera and Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 lens with 1.4x converter, using a monopod.  1/4000 | f/4.5 | ISO 800 | Aperture Priority with Matrix Metering | Auto White Balance.

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About a Picture – 10

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May 162010
 

(Actually, about eight pictures.)

Here is a little background on the photos in my slideshow “Dawn” which ran on World Hum…

Capturing dawn presents some technical problems – photographic and geographic.  A “dawn” picture may be taken before the sun comes up, or after.  But somehow it has to meet our expectations of what dawn looks like.

One of the difficulties is figuring out where the sun will be coming up.  NOAA has a great web site that lets you calculate matters solar.  One thing you can do is calculate the azimuth of the sun (the point at or above the horizon, expressed as an angle, measured clockwise from north) observed from any particular point (e.g. If I’m standing at the corner of the Metro parking garage at sunrise, which direction will I face to see the sun as it rises, or an hour later, etc.).  Operationalize this information a couple of different ways:  (1) With a decent handheld compass, you can line up your camera in advance to capture the rising sun; or (2) by using Google maps, you can identity landmarks that can be used to align the shot.

Here is info on the pictures.  You can copy and paste the latitude and longitude into Google Maps to see some of my shooting positions:

Opening picture: I was looking for a general shot and figured that shooting across the water would be good.  I went to Google Maps and looked for a location down the Potomac from Washington, DC that would give me clear shot.  I picked the Virginia shore looking towards Fort Washington, MD.  The very faint light-colored vertical object near the water under the sun is the Fort Washington Light.  I selected a shooting position just off the bike path to Mt. Vernon using the NOAA site.  (38.711318, -77.051588) (Nikon D300 on tripod with Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 lens; 1/250 @ f/8, ISO 800, 19mm.)

Philadelphia: This is one of those shots that makes you glad you remembered to take your camera along.  I was on a business trip and looked out the window early in the morning.  (Voigtlander Bessa rangefinder film camera, handheld with Voigtlander 35mm f/2.5 lens.)

Commute: I tried this shot the week before from the top deck of the Metro parking garage in Vienna — but the sun was a little too far to the right (over that clump of trees).  I went to the NOAA site and found out that the following weekend was probably my only chance from that location until autumn.  On shooting morning I set up the tripod and made shots over a period of time.  I collapsed the tripod and had put it in the car when I looked back, and saw this.  No time for a tripod, but I used a stabilized lens.  (38.878309, -77.272347 ) (Nikon D300 handheld with Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 lens – stabilization on; 1/125 @ f/4, ISO 400, 102mm.)

Dulles: This shot happened in the opposite way from the commuting picture.  The selected frame is one of a few shots I made checking the camera setup — before the sun actually came up.  Shooting as the sun rose, the terminal “paled” out and lost that glow.  (BTW:  I emailed the airport authority media relations office ahead of time to advise them what I would be shooting.  They only asked that I call police operations when I showed up.  The police were very pleasant when I called them.)  (38.953767, -77.451961) (Nikon D300 on tripod with Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 lens; 1/10 @ f/4, ISO 200, 32mm)

Car: I knew that I should have a road shot, so I rigged the Benbo tripod in the car.  I checked the map and saw some straight east-west stretches of Highway 7 west of Leesburg, VA.  As I drove west, I was checking my mirrors and saw that the time was right.  I made four laps back and forth between two overpasses.  A shot from earlier that morning is also posted on this blog.  (39.144473, -77.68791 to 39.143808, -77.655573) (Nikon D300 on Benbo tripod with Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens; 1/320 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 800, 11mm.)

Krakow:  I discovered how nice it is to walk around Krakow early in the morning on the last day of my first trip there.  For these pictures I had another project in mind that didn’t really pan out, but the sequence of four worked out fine for this slideshow.  The first three frames show for a little less than one second each in the slideshow.  (50.062472, 19.936835) (Olympus E-1 on tripod with Zuiko 11-22mm f/3.5 lens; 1 sec @ f/8, ISO 100, 11mm.)

Zoo:  The National Zoo in Washington DC is open around the clock.  In the summer you can beat the crowds and beat the heat by showing up really early – and also find parking in their lots.  This shot just happened.  (Nikon F100, film, on monopod with Tokina 300mm f/2.8 lens

Airplane: This is the source photo for my blog banner and is discussed in an earlier blog entry.  From a technical perspective, this is an almost hopeless picture.  The one I used in the slideshow hasn’t been fixed up in PhotoShop like the blog banner version.  (Minox EC camera, film, handheld.)

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“The shot from my iPhone hardly does it justice.”

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May 032010
 

We’ve all been there.

Somehow, what we shot isn’t what we saw.  This especially seems to be the case with pictures from the cameras in cellular phones.

But with a little work using some inexpensive (or even free) software, you can bring those photos a little more in line with your memories.

Take a look here to see what I did to put a little more life into this picture.

(…And maybe this will lead to a little more in-depth work…)

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About a Picture – 09

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Apr 292010
 

Lunch — Marble Arch

Lunch at the Pret A Manger, Marble Arch, London

Hmmm.  Another food shot.

This is from the Fall of 2002.   Shot with a Cosina/Voigtlander Bessa rangefinder camera using chromogenic black and white film.  I forget which lens I was using — likely a 15mm.

Sitting there, munching my lunch, and watching the world pass by…

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About a Picture – 08

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Apr 102010
 

Dusk in Krakow

The Vistula (Wisła) seen from Krakow's Wawel at Dusk

On a day where our thoughts may be turned to Poland’s tragedy, I wanted to offer up a image that expresses some sense of the nation’s endurance.

The Vistula runs from the Carpathian Mountains in the south of Poland, past Krakow, over the plains, through Warsaw, and eventually into the Baltic near Gdansk.  That watershed covers a great deal of Polish history and culture.

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About a Picture – 07

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Apr 052010
 

Something Related to a Project…

Pre-Dawn on Route 7

Not that this has to do with much of anything, but I happened to shoot this on Sunday morning on the way to shoot some other pictures for a project.

I’m not going to use this one in the project, because I already have my quota (one) of motion-blurred pictures — but this is still a fun image.

For the technically minded, here is the photo-geeky stuff:

  • The Nikon D300 camera was set up on a Benbo Trecker tripod — the middle leg was set into the Outback’s forward cupholder.  The other two legs rested on the rear floor, one on either side of the hump.  Lateral movement was controlled by a couple of bungee cords to the front seat head restraint rods.  If you know anything about Benbo tripods, you’ll understand why this works.
  • I used a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens.  The focal length was 11mm and the aperture was f/5.6.  Focus was preset at manual.
  • The camera’s ISO was set to 800.  The aperture priority mode was used, with 5-shot auto-bracketing.  The brackets were 1 f/stop apart.  The exposure for this shot was 1 second controlled by a Nikon electronic shutter release (squeeze and hold until all 5 shots were taken.
  • The image was recorded in RAW (NEF) so that I would have access to all the image data recorded.  Post processing was done in Adobe PhotoShop CS4.  Color temperature as adjusted to 6550K.  The white line on the right was used to set the white value in Curves.  Noise reduction was with Noise Ninja.  I Smart Sharpened it a little.

My biggest surprise was that even with the slow 1 second shutter speed and the pretty dodgy camera installation, the image is sharp enough to use — at least for the web.  Certainly not razor sharp, but sharp enough.

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About a Picture – 06

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Mar 282010
 

Good Morning!

Sea Lion and Keeper - National Zoo

A picture from August, 2002, at the National Zoo.

This was shot early in the morning, when the zoo was just waking up.  It’s the kind of shot you don’t get during the “regular” hours — one of the nice things about the National Zoo is that it’s open 24/7.  In the summer it is particularly nice to visit the zoo at the crack of dawn — and you can even find a close-in parking place.

This was originally shot on film using a Nikon F100 and a Tokina 300mm f/2.8 lens.

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Ghosts (Audio Slideshow for WorldHum.com)

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Mar 172010
 

It’s nice to be published…

(That’s not me)

This audio slideshow was published on March 11.  It started out as a class project for a Travel Writing clinic.

This is one of those projects that starts out as a pile of pictures (actually, a bunch pictures I picked from around inside my files).  You look at them for awhile and then kinda let them speak for themselves.

My title is “Ghosts” but the World Hum editors thought that “Travel Ghosts” was better for their site — and I agree.

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About a Picture – 05

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Feb 282010
 

What Got Me Started On…

Well, maybe “started” is too strong a word.

Stepney Green Tube Station

But over the past decade or so, one the things I’ve been trying to balance is the inherent accuracy offered through photography against a desire mute a viewer’s natural inclination to spend time searching for details…Details that satisfy curiosity, but which don’t really inform.

I was on some kind of quest in London during a visit in 2001 and ended up at Stepney Green.  It was the middle of the day and the station was much quieter than those closer to the city center.  The station was fairly dim, and I ended making the shot at 1/5th of a second, using a 15mm lens on a Voightlander Bessa rangefinder body.

The station environment is rendered with a fair amount of detail, though the lighting forces some shadows.  You see all you need to see of the departing train.  And people are in various states of blur.  Between distance, blur, and lighting, you’re not going to be able to tell what brand of shoes they are wearing — but that’s just fine.

This is another of those shots that I wasn’t sure was going to work out.  But it helped point my thinking towards different ways of representing people pictorially.

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