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Pentax Q @ ISO3200 in a Mexican restaurant lit primarily with holiday lights shaped like little jalapeño peppers. The Q really hits a good spot for me – a small, camera that I can carry everywhere. I am rediscovering the idea that the maniacal pursuit of “image quality” is a rabbit hole and can actually…
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Ok, I’m sitting here at my desk with like a million things to do and two million lame excuses not to do them. “I know – instead of getting some work done, I’ll conduct a memory card test! That’s the ticket – some guy on the Internet asked about what memory card to buy for…
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I gotta tell you, I love my little town. As a kid, I used to come and watch theTour of Somerville, the oldest bicycle race in the country. It was fun, but the town seemed to lack something…a spark. That spark was the vibrancy of downtown commerce. A mall had opened up about a mile…
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Logan playing soccer, a photo by john m flores on Flickr. Oh, Panasonic 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6! You are such a zoomy lens yet no bigger than a can of soda. You reach across the soccer pitch so easily and throw the background mildly out of focus. And you lend a hand in holding steady. So nice,…
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And I’m not damning with faint praise. With the 30-110mm lens, I had nearly 300mm of reach and lightning fast AF in the palm of my hands. I actually chuckled to myself as another adult showed up with his iconic white Canon L zoom, thinking to myself, “I’ve probably got more reach and faster AF…
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On top of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, a photo by john m flores on Flickr. That’s a 2012 Victory Cory Ness Cross Country Tour. That color is “Gold Digger Pearl.” No joke. And that’s a 5 frame HDR. The side of the bike facing the camera was in shadow – as you can see…
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Do not adjust your television sets. This is not heat haze, but instead an example of the “jello effect” of the Pentax Q’s electronic shutter. The camera doesn’t have a focal plane shutter, relying instead on a leaf shutter in some of the lenses like the 01 Prime and then resorting to an electronic shutter…
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Cheap is a relative term here – $65. But if like us you are sitting on the southwestern rim of the stadium, you can climb the last dozen stairs to the top and see something like this when the sun sets. Nikon V1 with the 30-100 zoom
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Within the span of a day we ride from the scenic and touristy part of the Maine coast northward, to the part of the Maine coast on the periphery of tourism’s nets. Little towns like Stonington struggle to cling to old fishing traditions, and while the area is showing the first signs of tourism –…
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The railroad, some grazing cattle, and a clear blue sky over Rapid City, South Dakota, a photo by john m flores on Flickr. This, for reasons unknown, may be my favorite photo of the year so far. It makes me want to go back out to South Dakota and neighboring Nebraska and take more photos.