I've been building up my photography equipment and just purchased a new lens, the Nikon 16-35mm f4 VR to be exact! So with the spring heat wave Rhode Island has been experiencing this week, I took it out for its first run to shoot some early morning fog down at the harbor. It was a very quiet morning with some thick fog, but the lens performed spectacularly! Of course I wasn't really putting it...
Breezy conditions this week meant for some windsurfing and kitesurfing activity out on the water, which I hadn't seen for some time. Of course the warm 65 degrees didn't hurt at all! I headed to East Matunuck State Beach for the first time since I was about 10 years old, with memories of waves full of seaweed and ruthless rip currents. There was a group of about 5 or 6 windsurfers out of Deep Hole...
So the past week there were some forecasts predicting big swell and surf, but as the week went on it turned into smaller surf and more winds. I went out a couple days in a row to check it out anyway and to see if any local surfers would be trying their luck. With my Nikon 70-200mm VRIIin hand (more like a 100-300mm on my crop-factor camera), I went and sat out in some wonderful weather. If there...
I received a plastic camera for Christmas, a Holga 120N. It's beautifully simple to use and takes a lot of the thinking and over-thinking out of photography. It reduces the photographer to pure artist creating art: observe, aim, capture. Of course, because of its lack of bells and whistles, exposures might not quite be what you expected. I'm told to expect light leaks and the "focusing" is really...
