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  • On the way to Sturgis

    We cross an ocean of grain in the mid-summer heat of one of the hottest years on record. In other words, it’s hot and there’s no place to hide. The road is a thick rubber band stretching from horizon to horizon and we’re in the company of other pilgrims on their way to Sturgis. Wyoming…

  • Family Candids with the Pentax K-01, Focus Peaking, and Manual Focus

    In some ways, capturing candids of family members is really hard. The low light of most houses forces you to push the ISO and open up apertures, which slices down the depth of field which in turn taxes AF systems. And the truth is, some family members can get downright ornery when you point a…

  • Sturgis

    Winter is the time to hole up inside, go through the 35,000+ photos taken in the last 12 months, and find the ones worth salvaging… This one is in Sturgis SD during their big summer rally. Bikers come from all across the country to celebrate the biker lifestyle. We were a couple hundred miles away…

  • Somerset County Courthouse

    Something’s missing from this photo. Can you guess?

  • Just a hunch…

    …but there are voices inside my head saying that Pentax will put a full-frame sensor in the K-02. 24Mp. FTW.

  • On the Road with Pentax Q

    Back in the day – in 2007 i think (my memory of those long gone days are faded) – I paid a princely sum for a little Ricoh GX100 point-and-shoot. With a tiny 10 megapixel sensor and a 24-70mm zoom, it was my backup camera on many motorcycle trips. It was unusual in that it…

  • Toilet 5¢

    Found this one while stumbling through this year’s archives. I’ve taken nearly 40,000 photos this year – my biggest year to date. Granted, there was a bunch of time lapse in there, but that’s still a massive number. This was taken earlier in the year with a camera I no longer possess, the Panasonic GF2…

  • Pentax K-01 shoots a Sony

    Went to PhotoPLUS a couple of months ago to speak to manufacturers about cameras for motorcycle touring. Sony chose to show off the RX100, a camera most of you know about and might even drool a bit over. Here’s what they had to say: Shooting video in a convention center (Jacob Javits in NYC) is…

  • One Man’s Quest for a Low Noise Camera

    Like many other photographers, I’m on a quest for less noise, particularly in quiet, intimate, low light settings. But it’s not the ISO and the shadows that I’m concerned about, it’s the racket that a camera makes when shooting. You don’t notice that cameras can be loud, attention-drawing things until you get to a situation…