Last week I took my recently repaired Pentax 67 to my grandson Charlie Pratt’s little league baseball game. I had purchased a Pentax 300mm F4 lens for my 67 right before I broke the meter chain, so I had not had a chance to use it for almost a year. I was eager to see […]
OKC Jiu Jitsu tournament
My son Adam Pratt recently competed in his first Jiu Jitsu tournament in downtown OKC. He wrestled and played baseball in high school, then did amateur boxing but after a tragic accident in the ring, he quit boxing and started raising his family. Now at 34 years old, he decided to get back into the […]
4x5x365 – Image 165
Have you ever tried to get three small kids to hold still long enough to take a large format 4″x5″ photo? Not an easy task. The biggest challenge was from the time I had the camera focused and having them hold still until I could close the shutter, set the aperture and timer, load film, […]
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, […]
Me and a 50 – at a softball game
My goal with my “Me and a 50” project is to show what can be done with a very simple, low cost kit – namely a 35 mm camera with a 50 mm lens. Sometimes I shoot digital but I also like to shoot black and white film. This time I took my Nikon FM3 […]