Images, thoughts, and crib notes from near and far.
Posted in Photo Gear and Reviews, Tools and Techniques on Jan 6th, 2012
The much awaited Nikon D4 was announced last night (Pacific Time) and if the specs pan out, this will be a killer camera. With the D3s as my primary work horse, I have come to rely on the high speed capture rate (frames per second) and the second to none low light noise free shooting. [...]
Posted in Photo Gear and Reviews, Tools and Techniques, Travel on Mar 1st, 2011
Continuing from my previous post on Tracking Your Journey: I have chosen to alter the base settings of the AMOD to achieve much greater storage capacity and to fit the particular type of travel that I do. For example, on my safaris trips I have selected to turn OFF elevation since we will either in [...]
Posted in Gear That Works, Photo Gear and Reviews, Tools and Techniques, Travel on Dec 27th, 2010
For the past several years, I have always carried a GPS logging device with me on all of my safaris. This small device records a track and waypoints for my entire trip. Once home, this becomes a record of the adventure that I can overlay using Google Earth. My choice device is the AMOD AGL3080 [...]
Posted in Gear That Works, Photo Gear and Reviews, Tools and Techniques on Jun 14th, 2010
As noted in my previous posting, I had an opportunity last Friday to participate in a Nik Software webinar previewing their new HDR solution. Nik representatives were also on hand at the Glazers Camera Shore Street Fair (Seattle) this past weekend, so I have plenty of time to pick the brains of the Nik folks. What did [...]
Posted in Gear That Works, Photo Gear and Reviews, Photography information, Tools and Techniques, Travel on Apr 19th, 2010
Not very often does one run across an application that makes your life simple when it comes to taking photographs. In this case TPE is free, available for Mac, PC, was well as the the iPhone. While there are many applications for the computer and iPhone which annotate sunrise and sunset for a given location, [...]
Posted in Photo Gear and Reviews on Nov 30th, 2009
When a deal is too good to be true, it most certainly is. Although I try very hard to support my local brick and mortar camera store, it is not uncommon for me to order from B&H Photo for a number of items. I first ordered from B&H when I was in Iraq. Ten days [...]
Posted in Gear That Works, Photo Gear and Reviews on Aug 16th, 2009
Maytag vs. Hoodman Compact Flash Card I have read numerous times about the success of washing your Compact Flash cards and up until last weekend, I always called BS on being able to use a CF card after washing. Last weekend I left a Hoodman CF card in my jeans pocket after shooting in the [...]
Posted in Africa, Gear That Works, Photo Gear and Reviews, Safari on Feb 13th, 2009
This weekend I leave for Tanzania leading another photo safari and man I can’t wait to get there. These crazy gray Seattle skies are killing me. So what is in the bag? For this trip I will be taking two carry ons. One Gura Gear back pack (shown here, and one over the shoulder lens [...]
Posted in Gear That Works, Photo Gear and Reviews, Travel on Jan 22nd, 2009
Every now and then, I come across products that just make my life so much better. When I travel to Africa to lead one of my safaris, I am very hard on my equipment and so is the environment. So you can image my thrill when I discovered (thanks to a safari traveler that will [...]
Posted in Photo Gear and Reviews, Travel on Jan 8th, 2008
If you have been watching the photography forums, no doubt you are trying to do some calculations to determine how much lithium (Li) you have in each of your batteries. Just as I was completed my numbers (just for fun and because I am an anal retentive engineer), I found a current press release from [...]