Bill Dragoo and I were on a week-long motorcycle ride in Arkansas for a magazine story. It was early April on a cold rainy late afternoon as we wound along lonesome Highway 16 in the Boston Mountains. Our heated vests were barely keeping us warm, especially as the rain tried to seep through our gear […]
Blog
A cold night on motorcycles in Arkansas
Pheasant hunting in western Kansas
My friend Cary Garrison has been inviting me to join him on his annual pheasant hunt to western Kansas for several years. This year, I finally accepted his invitation and brought along my son Adam and his grade-school friend and long-time hunting buddy Josh Smith. We left OKC right after work and made the 5-hour […]
Medical images from 1998 on Mamiya RZ-67
I was going back through my archives looking at old film and decided to scan these medical images I took way back in 1998. At that time I had only been into photography for a scant 2 years but had already moved from a 35mm Minolta to a Nikon film camera to an RZ-67 medium […]
Stories
Edmond Bike Night
Last year, several local merchants started Edmond Bike Night at the Railyard in downtown Edmond. I usually try to attend, often riding my Suzuki DRZ-400 or BMW F650GS. This time I brought my Nikon Z6 camera and an old Nikon 105 F2.5 AIS manual-focus lens for some pictures. I had to use the Nikon FT2 […]
4x5x365 – Image 211
Taking action photos with a 4×5 rail camera is always a challenge. I set up on this turn and hoped I would get some action with the long road in the background and some riders in the foreground. I was pretty happy with how this one turned out – no blurring despite shooting at ISO-100, […]
Bikepacking trip to Stillwater – aka “Mud Ride 2021”
For years I have wanted to camp while on a bicycle trip. My neighbor Geoff Detrich and I finally hooked up and rode from Edmond to Lake McMurtry on gravel roads. I camped overnight and rode home in strong headwinds and deep mud.
Writing
Find the Good in People and Tell It
Several years ago I began writing for a company in Tennessee that was founded by world-renowned … [Read More...]
Throw Back Thursday – Electric Light Bulbs
Two years ago I wrote and photo illustrated a story about compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL) … [Read More...]
Hillbilly Dual Sport story for Thunder Roads Magazine
My wife and I took in north central Arkansas in May and I wrote a feature story about our trip for … [Read More...]
4x5x365 Project
4x5x365 – Image 217
I was driving home from Sulphur, Oklahoma, and ran across this old steel bridge in the middle of a farm field. I had seen and … [Read More...]
4x5x365 – Image 216
At least I got one decent 4x5 large-format film picture at the start of the Mid-South gravel bike race. I was fairly happy with … [Read More...]
4x5x365 – Image 215
I was fairly happy with this 4x5 image from the start of the Mid-South gravel bicycle race in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I had taken an … [Read More...]
Me and a 50
Shooting photos at the scrap yard
I had loaded my trailer with some scrap metal from an old swimming pool we were replacing, and as I drove past the garage, I stopped, ran inside, and grabbed my Nikon F3HP camera loaded with Kodak TMAX-400 film and a 50mm F1.2 Nikkor lens. My wife Kay said “Why do you need your camera? […]
Me and a 50 – at the drag strip
I like to simplify things when I can. I learned in the Information Technology world that simpler is easier to manage and secure. The more complex things get, the more security holes and problems that can arise. The same goes with my camera system. While I have some pretty awesome zoom and telephoto lens, as […]
My Grandsons and a Nikon 50 1.2
Sometimes when I am just hanging around with family or wanting to have fun with my photography, I will grab my all-time favorite camera – a Nikon F3 – and put on one of my favorite lenses – a rare manual focus Nikon 50 1.2 lens. This lens is just an incredible hunk of glass, […]