My readers know that among my favorite things in the world, not just in my photography, are lenses. I like old and new, heavy and light, complex and simple, and on and on. There are almost no lenses that don’t intrigue me. One class of lenses I find the most satisfying to work with are…
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When I was 16 years old, my father and I watched Super Bowl XIII, January 21, 1979. My dad was a chronic TV watcher, so as soon as NBC’s coverage started, the TV was on, and, because my dad was hard of hearing, cranked up loud enough to rattle the windows. I believe that during…
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I recently learned of a fun hack photographers can perform on the Sony DCS-F828 digital camera of 2002 vintage. I happen to have a sort-of-working F828 in my photo closet, so I thought I’d try it out. The fact that I just learned about it doesn’t mean it’s new. It only means that I stumbled…
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Continuing with a series of scans from my newspaper files from the film era, these images are from a photo essay to go with a story about the Ada Police Department training in special tactics in February 1990. This is an interesting study in the evolution of police gear, attire, weapons, and tactics. I made…
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Here are a few recent images that passed my eyes on the job, but which weren’t suitable as content for my newspaper.
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I sometimes miss the days of Internet past, when a search yielded an interesting web page that had links in it to other links, which might have still more links. I loved clicking around to see everything from dancing hamsters to moon landing hoaxes. Now, I say with a heavy sign, the Internet seems to…
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I was sorry to see the Ada Cougars football team’s season come to an end Friday with their loss to Bethany. At the same time, I am definitely a forward-looker, and I am looking forward to basketball season. Honestly, every season is great, as long as I and mindful of what matters most: being the…
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The Ada Cougars’ recently enjoyed pep rallies in advance of their playoff football games. Both pep rallies were hosted by Doc’s Food Truck Park, which is fun and says that Doc’s is really engaging with the community. The stage and a sound system are lit by couple of street lights, various LED lights on food…
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My readers might remember that last month I talked about my very memorable first weeks at The Ada News, in October and November 1988. One image in particular, of five Boy Scouts holding the U.S. flag and saluting it, came back to mind last week when Scouts from Troop 4, Hawk Mater, Kevin Fender, Carter…
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There has been a lot of talk lately about point-and-shoot cameras being repopularized by the Gen Z crowd. The photography press says influencers on popular social media sites are buying them up on the used market, then using them to create content that they then hashtag #Digicam. The only working point-and-shoot camera I still own…
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Journey back in time with me to a time before digital photography and before the peak of film photography, in which photography wasn’t the ubiquitous juggernaut of internet culture it has become today. Today’s wayback topic is from the 1960s and 1970s. Families made far fewer pictures in a year than families make now in…
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This week on October 24, I marked 36 years at your Ada News. I know at least a few of my readers will remember what Ada looked like in 1988, and who I was then, just 25 years old. The passing years have brought changes, but the essence of the work we do at the…
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Most of us have seen the fake photos making the round this week, mostly the one of the little girl in a boat holding a puppy. These photos are easy to spot as fakes, being created by AI image-generators. Many of my photojournalist friends called out these photos, some even promising to “unfriend” anyone who…
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The photography community has been taking itself a little too seriously lately, so I thought it might be fun to explore the more playful side of my work. One thing us nerdish-leaning photographers do is pull out old lenses and explore their “bokeh,” which is a term used to describe the quality of the out-of-focus…
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One of my biggest ongoing projects this summer into fall has been my efforts to make certain my digital life – the photos, videos, writings, audio recordings, and everything else that lives as data – is safe and easy to access. An interesting, even counterintuitive, part of this project is that I am throwing away…
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