Author Archives: Chris

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Equipment Journal: Pocket Sketchbook (Canon Elph 110 HS)

Amanda and I have been doing some household cleaning recently. During that process, she came across her stash of old point and shoot cameras. She put me in charge of going through them and seeing […]

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Dreaming in 760nm

Two of my favorite YouTube channels both recently featured photographic outings to produce infrared photos. Steve O’Nions posted this wonderful video on infrared photography and Mat Marrash kicked it up a notch with some 8×10 […]

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Two Straight RAW Conversions

Back in this post, I mentioned that I generally preferred the look out of Nikon’s Capture NX-D more than Lightroom. After struggling with colors in yesterday’s post, I thought it would be fun to do […]

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The Balancing Act

This is a photograph I took on the same outing to White Pines that I took the Columbine photo I featured in this post. While the Columbine photo is probably one of my favorites for […]

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New Work: Fill’er Up

Well, my streak of daily posts ended, alas. I’ve been under the weather for a couple of days (no tests but reasonably certain it’s not Covid after a video appointment with a doctor). One of […]

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Schiit Stack

Apologies for a late and fairly uninspired post. It was a long evening. And I got a new toy. Well, two new toys. A Modi and a Magni 3+ from Schiit Audio. Yes, that’s their […]

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Junction A

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it!” ~Yogi Berra Nikon Coolpix A Sorry for the short, lifeless post this evening. Some nights, one is just too tired to put much thought […]

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Changing Attitude on Film

Lately, I’ve noticed that I’m shooting less and less digital stuff and thinking more and more about shooting film. That kind of surprises me. While I never really abandoned film after I started shooting digital, […]

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Getting Out

This was a huge part of my weekend. Cloudless, blue skies. Between skies like this and days with lots and lots of high sun as we near the solstice, this is not my favorite time […]

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New Work – Lake Defiance Boats

Really quick post this evening with one shot from the day of some boats taken at Moraine Hills State Park today. I’ll have more to say about the outing tomorrow but for the time being, […]