An old dog’s odyssey to learn new digital tricks


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Catnap

One of the locals takes a nap at the Littleton Historical Museum…

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Fruit stand

Today’s image is from the Pike Place Market in Seattle…

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Carnation

So I’ve been doing a little tinkering around with my new toys, the Olympus 50mm macro lens and extension tube. So long as you’re careful about some things, it’s a powerful combo. Here’s a macro image I took recently using this combination…

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Macro vs. Macro

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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New toys…

As you may have noticed if you’ve looked at the EXIF data in some of my images, I bought some new goodies for the E-510 to play with…

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3D for everyone — even rubber duckies!

A while back I stumbled across a post on Neil Creek’s site about a contest based on a relatively low-tech approach to making 3D pictures. Usually called the “cha-cha” method, it consists of taking two pictures of an object, using just a slight shift in your balance to assure that the two images are taken from slightly different positions. Then, you combine them with a little free software….

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Thank you… for what?

No, I’m not being unappreciative. I just wanted to point out the sad bit of irony in this image — another dying mall image, this time from the food court…

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Going down?

A nearly dead shopping mall in Albuquerque provides this rather bleak perspective. The place gave me the feel of a zombie building — it’s dead, but it doesn’t seem to know that yet…

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