Canon 55 1.2
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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 […]