This is the third drone that I have owned. I have had it long enough to be familiar with its strengths and weaknesses. With the imminent release of the Mavic Air 2, I have had a chance to review my purchase.…
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Back in 1988 I had the idea to take pictures of models that I’d built. I was new to photography and used this as an experiment. These shots were all done with a 35mm camera.
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Snow Speeder from Empire Strikes Back
Eagle from Space: 1999
On a recent trip to Florida I took a picture of a neon sign. I made a few edits to the image and posted it on my Instagram page. A few days later I received a notification that I’d been tagged in a new post.…
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At the Arlington Museum of Art today are three current exhibitions. If you have not been downtown lately, now would be a good time.
mumentous: the upsizing of a texas tradition
home & heritage: recognizing diversity
from steer to street art: a photographic journey through the lone star state
While on my “winter vacation” I on occasion thought to point my phone out the window and capture a few seconds of video. Once home, I stitched those clips together, deleting about 90%. What was left is a waterfall laden collection of video clips.…
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Attempt to mount Extender
I recently moved from a crop sensor to a full frame mirrorless camera. The one thing I missed was the relative loss of zoom because my crop sensor was behaving like a 480mm is now demoted to just be a 300mm zoom, albeit much sharper.…
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Seattle has a roadway that runs along the waterfront. Since it was built the city has undergone much change over the years. Until recently the view from restaurant balconies was disturbed by the sounds of traffic whizzing by. The city decided to tear down the viaduct and move it a block east underground.…
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Five years ago I bought a piece of kit to add to my camera. Since then it has been a near permanent fixture on whatever digital EOS camera I had at the time. The Canon GP-E2 is a simple GPS transceiver that attaches to your Canon camera on the hot shoe.…
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My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100. By the time I got the camera in 1978, it had been on the market for 15 years. It used Kodak 126 film and peanut flash bulbs. By this time flash cubes had already come on the market.…
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Just north of downtown Fort Worth is a place where five bridges cross the Trinity River together. Four of those bridges are for trains. Three of them are old iron train trestles. I thought it would make for an interesting subject.…
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On a rainy morning you can see the building is getting so close to be finished.
This is the 8th video in the series. You can see that most of the glass is in. Things are starting to look more finished.
Over in Grand Prairie is a Cricket field. I’ve seen people out there playing before. I was in the park with my drone and flew over to get some interesting shots. The early afternoon winter shadows contain remarkable detail. Watch the video below.
