I'm usually running 2 bodies and 2 smaller range zoom lenses when I want a full range of focal lengths.  Sometimes it is nice to have a good, competent do it all one-camera one-lens setup.

De Naald van Waterloo / The Waterloo Needle, Baarn/The Netherlands

For many of us who love to do color photographs, the multiple options to produce them with "boosted" coloration are very attractive.

Whilst looking for something completely different I stumbled upon a 5"x4" B&W neg from 2000. It was from a shoot that I did for my own amusement back then, but it had involved a good deal of organisation and preparation, and I have the finished framed result hanging over my office mantle to this day.

As we move through spring and restrictions are starting to ease, I've had a a bit more opportunity to get out and about.  As a personal challenge, I thought I would try some 'street' style photography.  So I stuck the 27 f/2.8 on my Fuji X-E3 and headed out.

Leading to ........

Just this week I have begun using my video lights for shooting product on my modified product photography table and boy, what a difference it makes! 

I just took this last Saturday morning near the little town of Lone Pine and Mount Whitney, which you can see in the background.  The area is referred to as the Alabama Hills and is famous for many movie shoots.

The iconic boatmen of Venice.
 

I love hiking and these four are special, because they were in volcanoes.
1- Villarica (Chile): made in 2002 on a motorcycle trip. With the acrophobia that I developed I would hardly do it again. The volcano is active, as seen by the smoke. Erupted last time in 2015;
2- Etna (Sicily): 2015. I went up twice, once on the south side and once on the north side. Active too. Last eruption in 2019;
3- Vesuvius (Napoli) 2015. Historical importance, as it devastated Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. Last eruption in 1944;
4- Gran Catere (Vulcano Island, Aeolian ) 2015. Active. Last eruption in 1890.
5- Stromboli (Stromboli Island, Aeolian ) 2015. Active. This one I didn't go up because they say this is where Maga Patalogika lives.

Think Tank Photo is taking 15% off a collection off a selection of their award-winning Rolling Cases. The sale includes their best-selling Airport Security, International, and Advantage XT rollers, in addition to their Production Manager stand cases, and Video Rollers.

Taken yesterday.
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"The Thumbs" with a light dusting of snow.
South-West Tasmania.

(Pentacon Six, 2.8/180 Carl Zeiss Jena lens, f/11 @1/250.)

Finally shooting macro on Fuji.

This may come as a surprise to you, faithful reader, but I’m not the kind of guy who likes to spend money on cameras. Especially new digital cameras.

Back in early June I noticed an unfamiliar bird nesting in the rose trellis alongside the front door, which I thought was a garden warbler. There were at least four small eggs which were bluish white with brown mottling.

Taken today.
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About 6 years ago I planted about 20 different fruit trees at home and I am starting a series of images showing the different harvests.

Keeping to the new normal (i.e. staying close to home) and carrying my Thornton Pickard half-plate camera and a dark slide loaded with 15 year-old (at least) Ilford Multigrade fibre paper for negative material...

More quarentine work.
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and the 105mm f/2.8 Micro lens...

Not remarkable photography by any means (X-T2 + 100-400/4.5-5.6 @ 400mm + 1.4x TC, around 1/125-250 sec @ 800 ISO, OIS, hand-held - kinda pushing the envelope for the little beast here), but when I spotted this group in a dead tree in the paddock behind my back gate I had to grab what I could and photograph them.

Despite the quarantine measures on nature, you can even go out! For immunity, there is nothing ray of sunshine, fresh air and distributed physical exertion.

More work from the quarentine.
All taken with the Noct 58mm f/0.95.

I began my career in photography back in 2008 and I still have many of the shots taken from my earliest commissions. I'll share some of those with you here.