There are two photographers who have it taped - who will be able to succeed with any assignment, any project, any inspiration. They are: a. The person who has every single lens ever made for their camera. b. The person who has only one lens. Everyone else will...
I love photo lights. From the simplest wind-up pocket flashlight to the most expensive studio power pack and heads, I think they are just great. Because I have a simple philosophy when it comes to images - things look better if you can actually see...
You might wonder at the title - common sense being so...
That sounds vaguely like a Dashiell Hammett detective novel title, but it's really just the best way to introduce the big macro lens for my favourite camera maker - Fujifilm. The lens, the Fujinon XF80mm f 1:2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro, is the newest macro...
This has been a month. The start of it saw the Hyde Park car show on Labour Day which I celebrated by having my camera fall apart. Not completely, mind - just the outer covering and the thumb rest. The camera is a Fujifilm X-T10 that...
Or how I learned to kick an anger-management book through the window...
How many times do we forget that pictures are all about us? What can we do to jog our memories? I was recently the guest of Mike and Jo at the Hope Farm guesthouse in York - courtesy of The York Society Inc. when I judged...
Well, you enter the York Society Inc.'s annual photographic contest for one, as we reported in the last column. And you also a. Go up the top of Mt. Brown lookout and see the whole sweep of the place. b. Hit the York Motor Museum and lose...
Well, I scored a plum job this last weekend - I was asked to be the judge for the York Society Inc.'s annual photographic exhibition. And as Saml. Pepys and I are wont to say in respect to entertainments - I did goe and was...
You all know Facebook, don't you? The addictive social media site that allows you to play computer games while viewing other people's lunches? And you all follow the side bar of Facebook News don't you? The one that tells us which superstar has carked it...