BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Birdchick writes on her husband’s participation in this year’s Fringe Festival in Minnesota. The concept of the Fringe Festival is fascinating, and I wish we had something similar here in St. Louis. I gather that every year, people submit ideas, and a lottery determines which are included in the Festival. That’s it: no juries […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As part of my camera updating, I purchased a couple of new lenses. The first is the Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 super wide-angle lens. I’ve been wanting to experiment with a wide angle lens, but didn’t want to spend the thousand or so dollars on Nikon’s comparable lens. The Tokina is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I love history. Not necessarily the big stories: the world wars, and tales of kings and queens and daring do. No, I like the stories of people who do acts of normalcy that end up creating waves that ripple from small to large to larger until an ocean of change […]
For the first few decades of taking photos I was content to understand apertures and film speeds, the ‘rule of thirds’ and so on. It was while I was looking at possible lenses to add to my kit that I realized there’s a completely new world of photography mechanics I know nothing about. Mechanics of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Before I started the new weblog(s), I told a friend that I was going to avoid saying anything even remotely critical about BlogHer. It does no good to do so, I told him. I’m sure he knew that I could not follow this vow. I don’t know if being critical […]