Tag: Nikkor Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S
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Stairing in Notting Hill
Our hotel in London was only a mile or two from Notting Hill, so one afternoon I spent a couple hours wandering the streets enjoying the architecture. It was a dreary day, but the resulting soft light was perfect for doors and windows and such, which are obviously a favored subject of mine whether they…
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It Fell Over Boulder Falls
A long-time friend, Erik, visited from Massachusetts last weekend. Over the years, we have been on a number of notable photographic adventures, including exploring Ragged Top in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson. (That’s a very old post, so I apologize for it’s different look and feel; beautifying the prehistoric posts on this…
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Seventy Minutes of Sonoita Skies
I mentioned last week that I missed the Arizona summer monsoons. (Note that the emphasis there is on the word monsoons, not summer.) The monsoons tend to roll in from the southeast, so if you head southeast from Tucson the desert will be getting, on average, more and more rainfall. I’m planning a future post…
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Sandcut Beach
This is my penultimate post about the Vancouver Island trip. Next week, as is my usual practice when wrapping up a series on a big trip, will have some lens usage statistics and an assortment of stray images that I wanted to share but never found a home for in the earlier posts. This week…
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Sombrio Beach
For the last two weeks I have been promising that the blog would go to the beach and here we are! Well…the image above doesn’t look like a beach, of course, but is right next to one: this is a petite little slot canyon carved into the beach’s cliff. (My wife reads this blog and…
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Trunkated
Last week I promised some very different images and I’m a little worried that the first two might not live up to that billing because they are both foresty. But the later ones will get there! I love the combination of mottled light and patchy colors on the tree trunk above. The trunk itself barely…
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Fairy Forest
As mentioned in last week’s post, we visited Fairy Lake twice while on Vancouver Island. After the first visit, we spent a couple hours exploring an area of forest that was adjacent to the lake. It was a small recreation area with a few campgrounds (that were closed, probably due to the season) and a…
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Victorian Tulips
As promised (more than once) I am finally beginning to post about last month’s trip to Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Before the actual photo tour began, my friend Barrett Lowe and I spent an afternoon and a morning wandering around Victoria with our cameras. Of the many things to photograph, there were tulips in…
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Pink over Pawnee
Last weekend I was rather dismayed when I saw a picture of saguaros silhouetted against a magenta aurora sky; after 29 years of living in an auroraless Arizona, I had some serious image envy. Not only that, but I hadn’t made any effort to go look for the aurora in Colorado, where it would have…
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Thirty Minutes at Fort Casey
For the Whidbey Island photography workshop, we met at Camp Casey which is largely comprised of old barracks and such. Next door—on the other side of some woods—is Fort Casey, which has old fortifications and gun batteries. At some point a few fellow workshop-goers had gone over there, but for some reason I didn’t prioritize…