I have been thinking about upgrading my small portable lighting kit from two Nikon SB-800 speedlights to something a bit more capable. I have used Speedlights for years and even developed my own modifiers for them. Back before speedlight modifiers were readily available, I would create snoots out of paper towel rolls, soft boxes out […]
Rail and bellows extension for Toyo VX-125 for portraits with 300 mm lens
About two years ago I purchased an excellent Nikon-W 300mm F5.6 lens in a Copal 3 shutter for my Toyo VX-125 4″x5″ view camera. I wanted an F5.6 lens I could use to shoot portraits. I liked my Nikkor-W 210mm F5.6 lens just fine, but felt I wanted a bit more compression in the image. […]
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 […]
Synology backup to Amazon Glacier
I recently set up my Synology DS1515 NAS servers to back up my 12 terabytes of images and video to Amazon’s I have two Synology DS1515 NAS servers, each with 20TB of spinning disks. I used to have one at home and one at a remote location, but I no longer have the remote location […]
Oklahoma Living August 2020
I forgot to post this cover photo that I did for Oklahoma Living last year during the pandemic. I went to Stillwater to photograph a CareerTech student on a hot July morning. We were able to stay “socially distanced” while I did the shoot.