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I added some photos to the Underwater and Landscape galleries. These are from the last Hawaii trip in 2007 (Maui & Lanai). They’re not super special since they were taken on my old PowerShot A710 IS, but I’m still a fan.

I got out for a bit on Saturday before the wind picked up and shot some dandelions with the Canon MP-E 65. I also found some tiny spiders to shoot, but wasn’t happy with any of the results for a number of reasons. The images were shot at a variety of magnifications from 1x to [...]

I just added two panoramas from my recent trip to Oregon. They’re not as spectacular as some that I’ve seen posted, but they’re my first real go at creating panoramic shots by stitching multiple images together, and I think it’s a decent start. Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size images!

Been sick for a few days. My on-call week started today at 10:30am. If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to get enough sleep to recover from this illness in time for me to fly out to Portland on 5/1. If I’m not lucky, I’ll have a less-than-optimal vacation. I haven’t done much in the realm [...]

I’ve wanted to do water drop shots for a while and finally had a real go at it tonight. I tried setting up last weekend but couldn’t get a consistent water drop rate or control where the drops fell. The following few images show my first attempt at this sort of photography. I was having [...]

I pass this intersection every day on my way to work and I’ve been meaning to take some long exposure night shots for well over a year. We have some rain moving in and it was very foggy – which just reflects all the tungsten-heavy light pollution. Overall I’m pretty happy with them – especially [...]

Since winter won’t release its icy grip on New England, there’s no fun bugs and critters to take photos of. I was able to snap a bunch of frames at the random spider that apparently lives in the apartment, but I haven’t seen him since. I figure I gotta make some opportunities (and need to [...]

I’m finding that the 200mm focal length simply isn’t cutting it for me anymore. My longest lens is the 70-200 f2.8L IS – which I love… a lot. I’ve known for a while that I need more reach and 400mm – 500mm is what I’m aiming at. When I was shooting on a 30D, it [...]

I wanted to share some of the first “real” shots with my MP-E 65 that I took today. With the world starting to wake up around us, we’re getting some little critters to shoot… finally. This little house spider was hanging out on a door jamb and being rather patient with me while I snapped [...]

Nothing major to report. Just lots of little things. Today’s Wednesday, so I picked up some comics on the way home. It was a good day for some titles that I’m a fan of – Deadpool, Farscape, Hellboy and Army of Darkness. I’m going to need to get a new box to hold comics and [...]