Too many hobbies, not enough focus
This is the second in a series of posts about my recent trip to Las Vegas. Read the first part here. Day 3 - Casino Exploration & Neon Boneyard Part 1 My pre-conference itinerary included two all-day bus tours so I inserted a rest day in between to allow myself more than 4 hours of …
This is the first post of several chronicling a nine day trip to Vegas. The unfinished draft was over 2700 words, and well, nobody’s going to read that 🙂 I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference in Las Vegas for work. I’ve never been to Vegas before and decided to do a bit …
I bought a Sony a6100 in 2022 as a way to dip my toe to into mirrorless. I used a Nikon D750 as my primary camera at the time, had recently added a D500 for sports and wildlife, and had tried Nikon’s mirrorless system through a used Z50. I was nonplussed with Nikon’s mirrorless autofocus …
I went on vacation recently to Discovery Cove in Orlando Florida. It’s a really cool, all-inclusive park where guests can swim with dolphins, snorkel with fish, play in the water, navigate the lazy river, or just lay on the beach and relax. In addition to dolphins and fish it has a full aviary as well …
The Canon EOS 30D I bought from eBay for $60 was a great deal not only for the camera, but because it included two lenses. They weren’t the fanciest lenses in the world, but not owning any Canon equipment, I needed them to use the camera. I knew that they weren’t in the best condition, …
We went up to "Little Niagara Falls" in Strafford on Saturday to take advantage of the nicer weather we've started having. I brought my camera, some new lenses, and a tripod along to capture the falls. The weather was overcast and everything was flat, dull, and gray, so I took the opportunity to shoot in …
I’m a nostalgia junkie. I get a high revisiting things from the past, things that I’ve owned, but also things I didn’t. I’m a technology junkie which manifests as my Mac Museum but I’m also a photography junkie, which more recently has manifested as a small camera museum. It used to consist of the first …
In the world of photography there is something called the “holy trinity”, the three lenses that “every professional event photographer” uses to take the majority of their photographs. These are the 16-24mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8, and 70-200mm f/2.8. They cover a full range of 16-200mm at a constant f/2.8 aperture, providing multiple levels of framing, …
I spend a fair amount of time on eBay looking for items to add to my collection and I’ve learned that there are just some things you can’t get in America. Sometimes products aren’t popular in the U.S., leading to fewer options and higher prices; other times they weren’t sold in the U.S. market at …
Remember when I owned a Nikon Z 24 - 70 f/2.8S for about a week last year? Also remember all that stuff I said about purchasing a used F mount lens instead of buying a native Z mount lens? Well I did it again, also a purchase from last year that I started drafting a …
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