Tag: Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S
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Oregon Eclectica
This week’s post will wrap up this mini-series from Tillamook County, Oregon, and its coastline. I don’t have another visit on the calendar yet, but as it is one of my wife’s favorite places, I’m sure I’ll be back. This is good, because I have barely scratched the surface here. This post presents three pairs…
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Chomp
Portland, Oregon. November 2023.
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Dappling
Portland, Oregon. November 2023.
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Bucketfuls
Casper, Wyoming. December 2025.
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Casper Echoes and Light
Late last year we visited my daughter and her husband twice in Casper, Wyoming, once at Thanksgiving and once just after Christmas. On the first trip, I heard about the Goose Egg Inn, which was about a 15-minute drive out of town. There are still lots of favorable reviews of the former bed & breakfast…
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Golden Turd
It didn’t take long for my daughter and I to notice the weird giant yellow thing across the river near our hotel in Asakusa. “What is that?” I asked. She looked on her phone for a minute and then laughed. “Oh,” she said, “it’s the ‘Asahi Flame’, but the locals call it ‘The Golden Turd’”.…
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Sumida Reflections
Back in Tokyo after spending the day down in Kamakura (discussed in this post) I had nothing on my agenda for the evening, so I went for a walk along the Sumida River. I mostly used my fast 85mm, in part because it had a deep lens hood and it was raining. Besides that handy…
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Scarlet Trusswork
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Menace
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Tokyo Skytree
We’re going to open our series on Japan with images of the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest freestanding tower in the world at 2,080′ (634m). It stood only 1 km away from my hotel in Asakusa, so I had ample opportunities to photograph it over my eight days in Tokyo. The image above obviously exploited a…