gear – So Many Stars

Happy Birthday to Me

The nice thing about being an adult is that you can buy yourself the birthday presents you really want!

So, I am writing this posting from a bus traveling from New York City back home to Allentown. It’s becoming quite apparent to me that we’re living in a world that is becoming simultaneously more interconnected and more mobile at the same time. The bus I’m riding on has WiFi and I’m connected to myContinue reading “Photo Mobility”

midday, june 2010

after having some of my work featured on the Lensbaby galleries, it kinda reminded me that there was an experiment i wanted to do. Lensbaby makes a soft focus lens that has an interesting aperture ring. its got a larger hole in the center, then smaller holes around the rest of the ring. i assumeContinue reading “midday, june 2010”

Instant Gratification

my mind has been in a bit of a whirling state lately. as much as i love a good shoot, i’ve really just been wanting to make prints and such with the photos i’ve already got in my library. capturing digital shots or even shooting film is really just the first movement in a photograph’sContinue reading “Instant Gratification”

Making Things Work

i’m really not much of a tinkerer. i don’t have my own soldering iron and i had to borrow one from my dad for this project. but i do like understanding how things work and the simple fact is this is so very simple, it was foolish not to do it myself. i recently boughtContinue reading “Making Things Work”

and then things got complicated

so, i’ve finally made the switch to the Canon 5D Mark II. this is a sea change for me since i’ve been shooting with Nikon gear for years now. buttons are in the wrong place and for my first shoot, it was very slow going. but i know that with continued use, everything will seemContinue reading “and then things got complicated”

that sentimental feeling…

in a little more than an hour one of my beloved nikon cameras will sell to the highest bidder on eBay. and suddenly, i’m getting sentimental about having to give it up. its a wonderful piece of machinery and it is the instrument i’ve used to take some of my favorite photographs. we learned theContinue reading “that sentimental feeling…”