Canon 55 1.2

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Winnetka Music Festival

Moon Taxi Winnetka Music Festival Scott Edwards

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

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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

Canon FD 55 1.2

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 […]