Images, thoughts, and crib notes from near and far.
Posted in Photo Gear and Reviews, Tools and Techniques, Travel on Feb 11th, 2012
I traveled to Ocean Shores Saturday to photograph the 13 year occurrence of Snowy Owls into this area. In between a slight mist and a little bit of ocean spray, the camera rain cover by Think Tank is just what I needed. Due to my procrastination, my Hydrophobia lens cover for my 200-400 had not [...]
Posted in Photo Gear and Reviews, Photography information on Feb 10th, 2012
Well Folks the long awaited and source of many rumors, the D800 is finally out. Available with and without the anti-aliasing filter; consumers should start to see these cameras late March or April, depending upon who you are listening to. No doubt in my mind that this camera, along with the D4 will be a [...]
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 [...]