Archiving 150 year-old hand-written Minutes books
May 13, 2023
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As a favor, I agreed to archive, through photos, the hand-written meeting minute books of a lodge going back over 200 years. The book bindings were falling apart, but fortunately, the pages, themselves, were in great shape. The books were the meeting minutes of a local lodge and were in danger of being damaged (the lodge just had some flooding and...
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Getting rid of people in your shot
September 05, 2015
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On a beautiful early fall day on the Maryland side of Great Falls (just north of DC) I was having lots of fun with my Neutral Density (ND) filters taking long shots to smooth out the water on waterfalls. There are a number of small waterfalls along the side of the canal – one at each lock. Just before I turned off the path to head over to the Potom...
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Niagara Falls and a slow shutter speed
October 21, 2013
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I had been to Niagara Falls for one day in July of this year on an absolutely perfect day and got some really amazing shots of the Falls, including a double-rainbow panorama. So we decided to go back again for a long weekend and experience more of the Falls and the area. Unfortunately, when we went back this past weekend, it was cloudy and rainy. S...
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Having fun with a Macro lens and a Target bag
October 07, 2013
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I finally decided to break down and buy a Macro lens. I’ve been wanting one for a while, but they can be expensive for a professional one. It went on sale, so I decided it was time to buy the Tamron 90mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro lens with VC for my Nikon camera. After playing with it for a while, I’m kicking myself for not buying one earlier.
I took it o...
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Look Ma, no flash!
February 17, 2013
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I spent the day at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport – the annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This time, I left the flash in the bag and shot at 1600 ISO and got some amazing results.
I brought my fastest lenses, but I never had to shoot at f/2.8. I spent most of the time at f/8 to f/9, but my shu...
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