Argos

A few days back, I took a picture of an old local building (built in 1903 — it’s old by local standards, at any rate). In spite of its age, it looks relatively “fresh” — thanks in no small part to a recent bout of restoration work. Since the picture I took makes the structure [...]

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I grabbed a shot of this hummingbird as she was headed toward a feeder in Estes Park, Colorado:

In the process, I learned a few things about photographing hummingbirds:

If the nectar is sweet enough, and you stand still enough, they’ll fly right past you in order to get their sugar water. Still, they’re tiny, [...]

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So I’ve managed over the past few months to gather up a mangy collection of hardware for my E-510, the purpose of (some of) it being to enable me to make macros. I thought it was about time to pull together some sort of side-by-side comparison of how it all performs….

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If you’ve been reading my posts for very long, you might recall that I’ve been tinkering around with a setup for doing macro and closeup photography at home. I started out by buying a 20″ light tent, but found that the lights it came with were pretty anemic. So I augmented the tent with another [...]

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