I’ve been eyeing this lens for a while and finally bought one. I’ve wanted a better travel lens set up than having to haul the Sigma 17-35 and the 28-135 IS. I’ve never been very happy with the Sigma. It’s an OK lens optically but it just [...]
I’ve experimentally added a Flickr badge in the sidebar. If I end up liking it I’ll probably rig something up to draw from my own site instead.
I bought Canon’s 100mm f2.8 USM macro lens. It is a fun toy. After a couple hours of wandering around shooting things with it, I finally copied all the shots to the computer so I could look at them. Looking through them was lesson on depth of field. In particular, the exact edges of the [...]
SANTA BARBARA, CA — My last attempt at the Botanic Garden
was a failure. It was closed for some “event.” Yesterday, however, it
was open and I went in. The garden is above the town in the foothills.
It’s only a few minutes from downtown but it seems like a lot farther
once you are there. Silence enveloped me [...]
SANTA BARBARA, CA — I parked near the mall towards the middle of ‘downtown’ at around 11:00. Some wandering and looking around for something that seemed photogenic led me to the library which had a fountain. I love shooting photos of fountains and splashing, active water
After shooting a few of the fountain, I saw a [...]
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CA — Refugio State Beach is connected to El Capitán State Beach
via a 2.5 mile bike/walking trail. I arrived at Refugio at about 6:30,
paid the nice lady at the gate for parking, and found a parking spot. I
had the camera gear in my backpack and left it there for the walk
through the [...]
CUMBERLAND, RI; July 30, 2003 — My Dad and I took a walk along the Blackstone River Bikeway (state park). I brought my camera. He was patient. This was was my first ‘outside’ use of the Speedlight 420EX I got a long time ago. It’s pretty cool. Cloudy days a great deal less bright than [...]
PROVIDENCE, RI — July 28, 2003. I was in Rhode Island taking a break from it all and visiting my parents. My Dad had to go into Providence for a meeting and expected it to be relatively short, so I went along to wander around downtown with my camera to see what I could do.
I [...]
I walked the ‘long route’ over to the beach by coal oil point. This route takes me down a road through the UCSB ‘west campus’ area which abuts a nature preserve. I had my backpack with the same gear I took with me yesterday. Again I started with the 50/1.8 on the camera. I didn’t [...]
I departed on foot about at about 7:30 and headed towards the ocean and the nearby park. My mission: shoot some sky photos.
I started with the 50mm f/1.8. It’s my only prime lens and I always forget how handy it is. It’s small, light, and less limiting than I remember. My basic plan was to [...]
On a whim tonight I headed out around 10:00pm to the shore in Santa Barbara along with my camera, wide and telephoto lenses, tripod and cable release. I parked along the road near the pier and headed out onto the beach with the gear. There’s a lot fewer people at night, but not zero. I [...]
I got a late start for my expedition to Cachuma Lake (around 3:00pm). I drove down 101 to 154 and then took it out through the mountains towards the lake. I stopped in a vista point along the way and shot a few photos.
It’s a very scenic drive; in the usual California use of the [...]
I recently bought a Canon 10D and a Canon 70-200 4.0L. The former is an upgrade from the excellent D30 from 2000. The latter is a new lens covering a range I did not previously have. It was tough deciding between the 4.0L and the 2.8L IS — in the end [...]
I’ve posted some pet photos. Featured dogs are Abby (my dog) and Ansel (the guide dog trainee a friend of mine raised).
I woke up Thursday, June 22, 2000 with a mysterious need to visit San Luis Obispo. I selected Friday as a vacation day weeks before when the summer vacation schedule was being set. I had noticed I had no days off in June and picked a Friday at random thinking I could surely [...]