I don’t have a list posted or recorded anywhere of what is actually in my bag that is taking up so much space, so here it is, for my blog readers to find out more than they need about me as well as for my personal record. Nikon D60 DSLR Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX […]

Last week was the adventure of finding the perfect tripod, now comes something even harder, picking the right camera bag. The past few weeks I have been traveling with my camera and its accessories spread across 3 bags. The camera and a single lens is in my SLR holster, everything else is in a separate […]

I am very close to picking a  tripod now. I have fondled the SunPak 7500TM, and it seems to be the right tripod for me. It is 72” tall and flips (fluidly) to the left by 90°, is very stable and is under $100, which makes it all around a great tripod for my uses.

Here is a nice shot that Chris took of me while I was in the back yard trying to photo a tiny flower growing in the grass.

trees in early spring look strange dusk is a neat lighting for plant photography learning new filter and lens combos takes patience higher ISO does not always sacrifice image clarity

Went by Wolf Camera and looked at their tripods. The selection sucked, basically 5 models that ranged from crap to crapier. Only one of the models did the 90 degree flip that I really like on my basic, cheap tripod. Wolf had no ball head tripods or anything even close. After finding that my chances […]

ok, on the thought of adding the information after the fact, that was a theory, which I thought might be easy enough to execute, except for one problem… I don’t know of an application presently installed that will actually do it. I thought ACDSee or Picasa might allow it, but it seems as though since […]

The D60 has a message it likes to show sometimes at varying points in its operation with a manual lens attached. Whether attached to the Orion telescope or the 500mm lens, the camera will state “no  lens attached”, even though the manual states that the camera accepts manual (non-CPU) lenses. There is no way to […]