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Winter Sunrise

Sunrise this morning was at 6:04 AM, which means that to get the shot above at this time of year, I’d have to be in position and ready to go at 5 AM, and since it takes me a good hour to get from home to this spot, I’d need to get up at 4AM. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Morning at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley

The weather on our trip to Death Valley was WINDY, blowing sand and dust into the air and largely obscuring the distant mountains to the point that photographing them was often pointless. Mother Nature certainly has to be in the mood to help if you’re going to get a nice landscape. The day before we left, she was. My cousin […]

That Drobo Feeling…

I’ve been using a Drobo for several months now and overall am very pleased with it. Most of the things I’d heard about it before I decided to buy are spot on, and its many benefits are both useful and have removed one of many sources of anxiety in my life, worry about sudden disk failure and […]

Moon Over Coit Tower

In January I’d gone out to Pigeon Point to shoot the lighthouse, only to discover that they close the tunnel and the bridge in the middle of the afternoon. I hung out on the coast and got a couple of sunset shots I liked, then came back toward the city through that one lane tunnel that […]