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I was left with about 10 exposures on this roll of Kodak Ektar 100 and I needed to finish it up. So it was time to grab Tony and attempt to keep him still for a few minutes and record his growth. It was painful, but I got a few good photos out of [...]

As you can see I am way behind in my blog posts. I am trying to catch up, but it will take some time.
This is my first roll of Kodak’s Ektar 100. I have to say that this is an impressive film. The sharpness is quite exceptional and the vivid color saturation [...]

What’s the old saying? Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. This photograph of Tony was pure luck. A very quick unplanned shot before we were heading off to the park.

This is the genuine smile we see all the time.

Leica MP
Leica 35mm Summicron ASPH
Kodak Portra 160NC

A little more relaxed, but [...]

Photography has taken a back seat to everything else in my life. Sure, having a young child is challenging, but our lives are so busy with work and school it’s hard to find time to edit photos and post them on this blog. With that disclaimer (excuse), I present these black and white photos I [...]

I’m not sure how many years I had a roll of Ilford SFX sitting in the freezer, but it was more than a few. So one day last September (2007), I thawed it out and went off to the Maryland Steam Historical Society Annual Steam Show in Arcadia Maryland. I promptly got the color slide [...]

The day finally came that we were waiting for, both excitedly and with trepidation, when Tony would take his first steps. Well about three weeks ago he took two or three steps, and by the following weekend when this photo was made, he could walk about ten or fifteen feet without falling. With each passing [...]

Earlier this year Nilsa called me over to the computer to look at her newest find, a vacation house she thought we should rent for a week in the Outer Banks. With our busy lives I hadn’t given much thought to a vacation, but fortunately she was thinking about it! It turned out to be [...]

It’s taken me weeks to get around to posting this, but life has been way too busy. June is almost over! We took Tony to his first backyard barbecue on Memorial Day (26 May 2008) and of course I have photos to prove it. As he gets older we are finding he can take more [...]

Here’s a couple of contrasty images I shot this past weekend. At the time I took these photos I knew that without a flash to fill in the shadows, I’d blow out the highlights and leave deep shadows by metering on the mid-tones (Zone V). In other words, I shot a normal exposure. Usually when [...]

We had one of those weekends where we worked on a job that we’d been talking about working on but never quite found the time to do. But all work and no play makes for work. And the weekends need to be about more than work. So to balance things out we took advantage of [...]