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The Eclipse by the Numbers
My Travel Photography Kit
A Short Photo Excursion to Eureka Springs, Arkansas
What’s in a Picture?
The Purpose of Travel Photography
Is This Really Film?
What the Journal Brings Forth
Shaking the Tree
The Next Big, Dark Thing: AI
A Day on the Trail
Monochrome Cameras: Epic Quality, or Expensive Indulgence?
Comparing Myself to Other Photojournalists
More Thoughts about the Fujifilm GW670III
I Love a Parade!
Who Wants Pancakes?
The Monochrome Challenge: Late November
A Solution without a Problem
The Lenses I Miss the Most
Post-processing
Thoughts from the Trail
Filters, Filters, Filters!
Why Do They Do That?
Bokeh Wars
A Shot in the Dark
Some Truly Amazing News in Photography
Mirror Mirror
New Lenses, New Looks
My Favorite Wide Angle Lens
A Look Back: The Nikon N6006 and N8008
A Look Back: The Nikon EM
I Did Myself a Favor
A Fungus Among Us
A Look Back: The Fujica ST705
Finally, Lightroom Has Grown Up!
Do Your Pictures Matter?
Why I Don’t Like Most Photographers
Bokeh Note
An Enlightening Month
Our Legacy
The Sky was Alive!
Photography is Full of Surprises
Another Camera?
“A Magic Picture”
58mm: All That Glitters is Not Gold
Keyword: “Authenticity”
We Love Lenses
Few and Far
Late Summer Monochrome
Prints Make Pictures More Real
Terrifying and Wonderful
Children of a Lesser Nikon
Four Decades with Nikon
How to Get a $5000 Camera for $500
Another Walk in the Park
Monochrome Challenge: A Walk in the Park
When HDR Goes Oops!
The Ethics and Reality of News Photography
Lightroom Presets
The Truth about Sensor Size
Did 35mm Film Revolutionize News Photography?
What Will Become of Our Photographs?
“Mister Contrast”
Pictures and Egos
Film Simulation Bracketing
To Filter or Not to Filter
I Like Good-Looking Lenses
Is This Art?
Full-Frame Saves My Wide Angles
Fill Up the Frame
The Absolute Magic of Photojournalism
Are Photo Books Dead?
How to Process Film
Review: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
A Look Back: The Nikon FG-20
Spherochromatism
A Passel? A Cluster? A Stockpile?
The Fujifilm X100V
Photographs and Memories
A Vanishing Skill: Manually Focusing a Lens
Another Lens for the Collection
A Little More Light Can Make a Big Difference
Fooling Around with Christmas Lights
Conflict: The Essence of Sports Photography
Monochrome Challenge: Snow
Cameras Outpacing Photographers
iPhone vs Camera
Steal My Balls and Play with Them
The Nikon D500
Film: Some Snapshots
Film: My Time at The Daily Times
Film: My Time at the University of Oklahoma
Film: My Time at The Shawnee News-Star
Film: Ada Cougar Football State Championship 1988
Monochrome Challenge: After the First Freeze
How to Shoot a Silhouette
More Thoughts About the 85mm f/2.0 Nikkor
Another 85mm???
Autumn Walk for Inspiration
Photography in the Margins
More from the Mamiya Sekor
The Way They Made Them
Pinch, Poke and The Mighty Hound
Photographic Doings
Large Format is the Wild West of Photography
A Fisheye Surprise
Most Popular Camera Ever?
Experiments Keep Us Moving Forward
Reflecting on Mirrorless
Rainy Sunday
Olympus Has Fallen
That Little Dance Called Creativity
Irises at f/2.0
The Yard Session
The Walk
My Screen Saver Is Making Me Yearn
Editing and Tweaking
Workflow Changes
Kathy’s Influence
First Day of Spring 2020
In Praise of the “Kit Lens”
Same Scene, Different Day
Keep Your Eyes Open
“Dreamlike Quality”
First Stack
Sweet Suite
Another 85mm
My Antelope Canyon Experience
Sweet Little Lenses
Late Fall Monochrome
Security
Always Be Ready to Make the Picture
Evening Walk
Are Macro Lenses Good Portrait Lenses?
So Many Levels, So Many Layers
Late Summer Monochrome
Taking Lenses to Their Limits: The 200mm f/2.0
Why Not Video?
The Sometime Lost Narrative of Large Apertures
Monochrome June
Making a Living as a Photographer
The Word “Bokeh” Has Been Completely Usurped
Imaging Today and in the Film Era
You Know What to Do
The Tangled Web
Zippity Zap
A Nod to My Old School
The Lens That Never Fails
Monochrome in Mid March
The Sweet Morning Fog
A Look Back: the FujiFilm FinePix S4500
A Look Back: the Nikon D700
Little Andeigh and Big Gage
Need a Snack?
Performance
Beauty
Evening in the Small Town
Skyward
More Monochrome
Super Blood Wolf Moon
Lyme Gym Syndrome
The Monochrome Challenge
The Basics
And the Moon Shall Become as Blood
A Look Back: The Nikon D200
Geotagging, Selfies, Crowds, and the Menace to Nature
Some Confusion about the Season
30 Years at The Ada News: Evolution and Revolution
Out of Hand
Commute
October Rain
A Look Back: The Nikon D70S
Secrets
Native Patriots
A Look Back: The Nikon D100
A Look Back: The Fujifilm Finepix S2 Pro
What’s Missing from Your 4K Camera
My Ten Dollar Camera Collection
Funniest Repair Ever
Breaking Things Loose and Keeping Things Fresh
A Camera Like a Sports Car
Nail in the Film Coffin
A Look Back: The Sony Cybershot DCS-F828
Judge, Jury and Executioner
The Love of Teaching
An Odd Move for Kodak
A Look Back: a “Tank” of a Camera, the Nikkormat EL
A Look Back: the Rare Pentax Auto 110
A Look Back: The Olympus XA
The Rule of Thirds
Mirrorless: The Next Big Thing?
Teaching Old Glass New Tricks
A Look Back: The Fujica ST605N Camera
A Look Back: The Fujifilm S200EXR Digital Camera
A Look Back: Kodak DCS
A Sunstar Extra
Funny Lenses and Expensive Lenses
A Lens from a Bygone Era
The Sweet Little 35mm
Your Next Lens
As Resolution Increases, Quality Falters
The Great American Eclipse: Until Next Time…
More Thoughts About the Eclipse
My Favorite Place: Done
JPEG Dazzle vs RAW to the Rescue
Phonetography Phun
More Stars, More Stripes, More Fun
The 2017 Solar Eclipse
Other Photographers and Our Egos
Learning the Trade: College
Amping and Upping the Game
Striking Photos of Lightning
Now We’re Ready to Shoot
From Paper to Papers
A Light Serving of Light
What Is an “Art” Lens?
Old Tricks Still Work
Always on Duty
Fact and Myth: “Full Frame” vs “Cropped”
How to Rock the Sunset
Pretentious Jonesing for Film
Why Isn’t My Fifty Nifty?
A Long and Difficult Recovery
Flare and Ghosting
We’ve Only Just Begun
First Look: AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
Everyone Is a Photographer
The Gift of Aperture
Why Format?
Who Do I Want to Be?
Props to These Guys
What’s Changed, If Anything?
More Praise for the “Travel Lens”
In Praise of the 300mm
A Great Wedding Combination
Why Canyonlands?
Do Try This at Home!
Sensory Perception
Decisions, Decisions
Sitting on Your Pictures
Point and Watch
Pictures at an Exhibition
“Preserve Aspect Ratio”
Summer Breeze
Cities of the Interior
What to Carry When Your Phone Isn’t Enough…
A Tale of Two Twenty-Eights
Coloring with Lights
Yes, It’s Bokeh
Friend or Foe: The Unsharp Mask
Decapitation
The Light Can Make All the Difference
Tested and Failed: the Sigma DC 17-50mm f/2.8 EX HSM
Getting Organized
Software: The New Darkroom
Mistakes and Protocols
In Conclusion
Up Close and Personal
Yes, but What Then?
Down the Infraroad
Eighty Five Test Drive
What About Angles?
Portrait of a Portrait Lens
Bokeh vs Bokeh
That Night in 1985
The Work We Do
The Raw and the Cooked
Game Night in the Small Town
Can I Get a Copy of That?
Why Beautiful Moments Are Beautiful
New Tools of the New Trade
Picking a Camera for Kodak Moments
The Nikon D300S at 7500 Exposures
Hearts and Bones
Droning On
Back to School Faces
What We Thought it Would Be Like
Standing on Higher Ground
Intimate Moments
An Award for Just Showing Up
First Look: the Nikon D300s
Test Driving Instagram
The Plus-X Conundrum
Pomp and Circumstance
A Dark Cloud on the Horizon
Unbending the Lines
The Walls
Being There: Triumph and Heartbreak
Doing an Exploratory
Single-Frame High Dynamic Range
Traveling Light
The Right Idea
Dancing with the iPhone
Back to Basics
A Mild but Interesting Epiphany about My Shooting
The 85mm is Dead; Long Live the 85mm
The Backup Camera
Lessons and Ideas from Long Ago
What the Camera Sees vs What We Want It to See
The Need to Be Obvious
Not the Place for Greatness
The Stories We Tell
Exposure Compensation: What and How
Traveling Cameras and How I Use Them
The New Selfie on the Block
Something Beautiful
50 vs 50
Going to the Dark Side, or Eyes on Tomorrow?
Shooting Football: a Two-Pronged Attack
A Gorgeous Night for Teaching
Water of Love, Love of Water
Scan While You Can
The Real Mission is Storytelling
How Photographers Can Miss the Point
The Geometry of Photography
DPI, PPI, IPI
A Complete 180
A Lens for the Fun of It
Coming Soon to an America Near You
Color Spaces and Color Pallets
Cleaning Your Gear
Smart Phone Photography: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Face Off: Nikkor 18-55mm vs Nikkor 18-70mm
Stepping Up with Stepping Rings
Commanding the Light: Polarizers
The Long and the Short of It: Superzooms
To Focus or Not to Focus
The Persistence of Memory
“When their Bones are Picked Clean and the Clean Bones Gone…”
“Should I Upgrade?”
The Messy Days of Photography
Observations on Film, Filtration and Our Roots
In through the Out Door
Desperately Seeking Sunstars
Worst Lighting Ever
A Medium Format Itch
All Mixed Up?
Burn, Baby, Burn!
Night Sky with D7100: First Try
Boots and Bones
A NEW New Camera
What’s All This About Aperture?
My New Holiday Best Friend
Sunstars, Selective Focus, and Other Holidays Tips
Is My Bokeh Brokeh?
The Hunger
Lighter and Brighter for Indoor Sports
Playing Around with Our Past
Exposure Mode Control: Dial vs Button
Go Out on a Limb, or a Bridge
The Real Future of Photography
Let’s Get Even Closer
When Bad Lenses Go Good
Reasons to Love Teaching
The Ultimate Camera
The Sharpest Lens in My Bag
Reach Out and Take It: Teleconverters
Simple Advice in a Complex Environment
Why Is Decay So Interesting?
The PASM
The D-Tundred
The “Worst DSLR – Ever”?
Chasing the Light
Trial by Trail: the Fujifilm HS30EXR
Coming Around Again: The 20mm
Force Op, or The Herd Mentality
The Twilight of a Great Technology
Retired Supermodel
Head Over Heels about Hoods
The “Hand of God” Technique
The “Undisputed King” of the Wide Angle
The New Normal
Little Skills
My Most Extreme HDR Image Yet
Lighter Load: Gear for Hiking
Dream Kit for Shooting News and Sports
Trend: Sixties Faded Color Print Look
The Megapixel War Is Over (and has been for a while)
Simplest Lesson Yet
A Good Example of Bad Bokeh
The ISO Stratosphere
Manual Focus: Follow or Pre-Focus?
Don’t Be Discouraged
Favorite Images: Portraits
Studio-like Light for Next to Nothing
Better Photographers with Digital Cameras?
Tech Pan and the Great Grainlessness Quest
Community Journalism
Favorite Images: Travel
Elvis, Take My Class
Adobe Photoshop’s Photomerge Function
Like Day and Night
Bright and Dark, Colors and Greys
HD Garbage
Protecting Your Images in the Digital Age
Bright Lights, Big Photos
More Bokeh Talk
Just What We Needed: Another Wheel
The Way We Shoot Weddings
Why Fine Art Photography?
Mastering the Art of Mastery
All Good Things…
Formal vs Pose vs Cheese vs Candid
Update: The Barber Peak Experiment
“I’m Learning”
Opportunity Knocked
Command of Light
Into the Fire
A Well-Made Hunk of History
Intimacy
To Chimp or Not to Chimp
Their Game and My Game
Jenny’s Chairs
Experimenting with Infrared
The Dissolving Fence Trick
What Is a Portrait Lens?
Don’t Let Foolish Pride Stand in Your Way
My Dad’s Camera
You Can’t Always Reshoot
When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best
An Overtime Victory
When Your Camera Does Matter
Proof That Your Camera Doesn’t Matter
Another Happy Accident
Stained: Experiments of Our Youth
Theory into Practice
Snowstorms and Sunstars
The Value of Stepping Out of the Box
Glass for Hoops
The Priority of Art
Death Row
A Great Camera with an Undeserved Reputation
Your Certificate
Accumulation of Light
What Are You Really Photographing?
Perspective on Perspective
“A Sweet Piece of Glass”
Who Writes History?
What I Can’t Teach You
The Essence of Action
Summer’s Over
My Summer Job
The Bell is about to Ring
The Beauty of Being Overlensed
Strengths and Weaknesses
Me and My Shadow
Peer Pressure (The Good Kind)
Exploded View
Don’t Fear the Reaper (or the Floppy)
The Quick and the Dead
Everyone’s Favorite Droid
How to Hold Your Camera
A Fool’s Errand
Advance and Be Recognized
Brilliant Color and More: the Fuji S200EXR
Exciting My Aliases
Simple Setup, Dazzling Results
The Incredible, Edible RAW File
An Ode to Film
The Golden Moment
The Agony of Delete
The “Nifty Fifty”
Bright and Curious
Focus Errors and Corrections
The Value of f/2.8
Fifteen Images
Slow Sync Mode
A New Travel and Hiking Camera
The “Three Large”
A Rare and Beautiful Classic
Falling in Love
A Handful and an Eyeful
Carrying a Big Stick
Sharpness: Value, Perception and Reality
Etiquette for Photographers
The Greens of Summer
Big Isn’t Necessarily Better
A Wide Angle for the Rest of Us
Pearls Before Swine
A Photo that Shall Live in Infamy
The Zone
Why Your Web Site (or Photoblog) is Unviewable
The Stare

Shutter Counts

You can find this in Preview>i>Nikon

D300S with black strap = 137798

D300S with digital strap = 112324

D700 = 94686

D2H #4 = 86145

D2H #3 = 87294

D2H #1 = 98965

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