“Another year over and a new one just begun.”John Lennon Well, here it is December 31st, 2022 and I’m left wondering where on earth this whole year went. When I was young, I remember all […]
Category Archives: Photographic Philosophy
An Atmospheric Morning
AwakeningMorning sunlight streams through lifting fog on November 1st, 2022. Despite the rural feel, this photo was taken on the side of a six-lane county highway in Illinois’ second most populous county. As soon as […]
2021 Reflections and 2022 Hopes
Flamestar – Mt. Emblem CemeteryOne of the last images I took in 2021 was this shot of a sculpture at Mt. Emblem Cemetery in Elmhurst, IL. It was mostly part of a shakedown cruise with […]
One Image, One Story: Evening Autorack
A train of autorack cars is approaching the eponymous city of BNSF’s Pueblo Sub on the evening of March 12th, 2018.Nikon D600, Nikon AF Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8D One of the fun parts of accumulating a […]
Adapting
A honeybee is making good use of a large field of Goldenrod in Bensenville, IL on August 31st, 2021.Nikon Z7, Tamron SP 90mm f2.8 VC Macro My photographic output for the past year has been […]
Equipment Journal: A Surprise from Nikon
Back in June of last year, I wrote a post comparing simple conversions of Nikon RAW files using Adobe Lightroom and Nikon Capture NX-D. I still will pull up Capture NX-D if I’m looking to […]
The Pitfalls of Perfectionism
SteadfastGrowing between two of the three individual falls that make up the whole of Rifle Falls, this tree makes a nice counterpoint of stability amid the rush of flowing waters around it.Pentax K-5, Pentax DA […]
B&W Tonality
Crosshead DetailThe crosshead for the right cylinder of the Georgetown Loop Railroad’s locomotive #12. This locomotive originally was used in Hawaii. Burke and James 4×5 Grover Schneider Kreuznach 150mm f5.6 Convertible Symmar Efke 25 Developed […]
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 […]
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 […]