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3DR Solo: Droning in the Snow
I love these camera-toting quadcopters. Partly because it’s just fun to fly stuff around (yes, I’m still about 12 at heart) but mostly because of the new opportunities they offer for photography and videography. After seeing the first few videos people had made with them, I was hooked. The problem is, the technology moves so…
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Testing the Minolta SR-T-101
Awhile back, I posted about the Petri 7S, Â one of two cameras my mother-in-law had passed along to me. Â This post is on the other camera, a Minolta SR-T-101. Â This Minolta is an SLR that first appeared on the market in 1966 and continued to be manufactured until 1975. Â From this website you can figure…
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Doing My Bit for Science
You never know where your pictures will end up! Â So far people have been pretty good about asking for permission (as far as I know). About four years ago I was experimenting with macro photography, taking pictures of odd bugs I found in our back yard in Namibia, when I came across this odd black-and-yellow…
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Rediscovering America: Shenandoah
In a long(er) blog post in October, I wrote about the benefits of a career that takes you all over the world, and highlighted the fact that being away often helps us better appreciate the natural beauty of our own country – which, ironically, we don’t get to experience all that much. After spending some…
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Autumn
We haven’t really seen any real “autumn” to speak of for a number of years, so it has been refreshing to re-experience those surprisingly brisk mornings, doing those runs where the cold air tears at your lungs a little, and the smell of wet leaves… I keep telling myself to bring a camera to capture…