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Mr. Lucky

Not Valentino—if anything he was a bit short on luck yesterday, finding himself on the pavement after fighting into the lead of the last British GP at Donington Park. I mean me, since I still sometimes can’t believe it when I find myself trackside at another MotoGP event or speaking to someone who not long […]

Into each life…

It’s the middle of summer in England, so we got very wet yesterday. But once again, being ready for the rain made all the difference. It’s worse for the teams as setting up the bikes is harder, and of course in the wet, anything can happen as far as race results. But it’s sunny this […]

auf Wiedersehen

I’m sitting in the Frankfurt airport, in the same area as when I was waiting to go to Qatar, this time waiting for my flight to London and next weekend’s British GP at Donington Park. The announcer just called for the flight to Doha to board, and though I hope to go back to Qatar […]

Old Habits Die Hard

Apparently I’m in what used to be East Germany. One of the veteran MotoGP photographers was telling me last night about the huge crowds they used to have here at the Sachsenring, until one year’s result had 300,000 fans singing the anthem of West Germany, which the powers that used to be did not find […]

Day of Stars Auction a Success!

On June 30th I wrote about the Riders benefit auction at MDK in Redwood City, which was a kind of preliminary event in preparation of the Day of Stars on the Thursday before the USGP at Laguna Seca, where a much larger crowd of racing enthusiasts was anticipated. For that event I’d donated an 18×24” […]

Riders for Health

I’ve been speaking to some of you lately about my recent involvement with an organization called Riders for Health, and if I’ve not shared this link with you already, I invite you to check out this short video which explains better than I what Riders does that is so important. Though I had heard about […]

Sensing New Possibilities

Some time ago I posited the notion that as technology continues to cram more and more pixels onto DSLR sensors, that growing capacity could be used not merely to make higher resolution images, but alternatively to gather more dynamic range with each exposure. Instead of bracketing a given shot twice, a 24 mega-pixel sensor could […]

Easy access to Auto Bracketing with the Assign Function Button, and setting Release Button to use Dial to make things even easier!

When I’m shooting landscapes, I like to be able to shoot an HDR set of exposures quickly and easily, and I’ve set up both my D700 and D300 to use the Function Button to allow me to enable, adjust and disable Auto Bracketing in a few seconds. It’s so easy now that going into HDR […]

Zabriskie Point, Stage Right

This image was made by turning the camera to the left of Zabriskie Point and also backing up 50 feet or so, as I recall. It had rained one of those desert rains not long before we’d arrived in Death Valley, and I think the dark path in the lower third of the image is […]

Perspective

Three people on the ridge of a large sand dune in Death Valley, CA. Sand dunes are strange how they sometimes appear in the middle of nowhere IF the situation is just right. If the wind is blowing in such a way that the sand can collect in a given spot without continuing on its way, you […]