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Clear Skies
September 24, 2021
A beautiful fall day, along with some interesting buildings and lines… Architectural details and a few cracks can be found in this wonderfully colorful photo. Grand Lux Cafe is at Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd, across from the Galleria. Post Oak Boulevard in Houston houses some incredible mixed-use office and retail space. The three building […]
Hope for the Gathering Storm
September 16, 2021
I don’t really believe in coincidences. Too often it has been easy to see a purpose in randomly bumping into a friend or stranger… This is how I feel about the happy accident of being at the right place at the right time to shoot this image. Here’s a second image… taken just seconds before. […]
Enter the Biotar (1 of 2)
March 25, 2021
It is one of the most prized lens in history; a personal obsession that now takes root. PART 1 OF 2. My personal obsession began four years ago. I had jumped into professional photography with both feet, had spent hundreds of hours on the technical aspects, and was constantly reviewing thousands of images in search […]
A 1959 Leica 35 2.8 Summaron shines on
January 25, 2021
It’s not the easiest lens to use but it’s special – sharp with the old-school swirly bokeh Leica has a reputation for making special lens – and deservedly so. Ken Rockwell notes the Leica Leitz 35mm f/2.8 Summaron is “exceedingly sharp, possibly sharper than the newest 35mm f.2 ASPH and 35 f/1.4 ASPH at moderate apertures, […]
Geeking Over the Sony ZEISS 50 1.4 Planar
January 12, 2021
Designed in 1896 with Zeiss T coatings added along the way, there are few lens that match its history, versatility and stellar rendering The Zeiss Planar is a lens designed in 1896 by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss. Unbelievably, the design and Zeiss are at work in today’s world. My copy is a modern one […]
The Train Stop
September 6, 2020
Photographing children – or in this case, two children and a teenager – can be elevated or differentiated with a story or a set/location. Three sisters were my subjects. In the age of COVID-19, I suggested they and their mother first meet me at a train stop that was now seeing a fraction of the […]
Winnetka Music Festival
July 12, 2019
In three short years, the Winnetka Music Festival (Winnetka, Illinois, home to the “Home Alone” house and other points of interest) has established a reputation for great acts and a great time for all ages. Created by Winnetka natives Val Haller and Scott Myers, this year’s festival featured 60 acts performing across four stages and additional […]
Winter Wanderings
March 13, 2019
This winter has been a “doozy” as my dear old Mom used to say. Because I grew up in south Louisiana, doozy applied to other things – athletic feats, five-car pileups and report cards (mine, not my sisters’ good grades). She never used the term for subzero temperatures, bone-crushing layers of ice and snow or a […]
Magic @ 1.2: The Canon FD 55 1.2
January 4, 2019
Shooting at F-stop 1.2 is new to me. It’s a tricky proposition. With a manual lens, even trickier. Indeed, in the short bit that I’ve had the Canon FD 55 1.2, I’ve found that nailing down a portrait at 1.2 is no easy task and not for the impatient (and I’m quite used to shooting […]
Tokina Power Tower – The Tokina AT-X M100 PRO DX
September 6, 2018
I can start this article in two ways. The first way is more intelligent, given that my wife may or may not read this post. This first way would be to explain that I needed another portrait lens for one of my film cameras – the Nikon F100. There, done. I’ve only been shooting with […]