West End Funk
On the first day of 2025, the weather was iffy. Wind and potential rain were in the forecast. I saw an opening around …
Happy Holidays 2024
Holiday Greetings As we approach the end of 2024 and prepare for 2025, I wish everyone a happy holiday season and a …
ROGETI RG-1 Geared Head:
Position Precision
Geared tripod heads are not new. I don’t know when they started, but I remember scenes in movies where a …
A Close Look at A New 100mm F2.8 Pergear Macro Lens
Coauthored by Dennis Goulet This will be the second Pergear macro lens review after my earlier 60mm version. The new one …
Toning Monochrome Images
In the days of darkroom photography, many photographers toned their B&W photographs for various reasons ranging from …
Intersect Lightroom Masks
Lightroom Masks From the early days of Lightroom to today, it has changed in many substantive ways. The relatively new …
Arcadia Management Area
Arcadia is Rhode Island’s largest public recreation area with over 14,000 acres of land, lakes, ponds, and trails. …
Happy Birthday Mina
We are very happy to have Elif and Mina with us to celebrate Mina’s 18th birthday. Many happy returns of the day, …
Fungus Among Us
A week ago Sunday, Jan and I decided to go out and see the new public art on Weybossett Street in Providence. It was on …
Photo Studio Session At
Newport Car Museum
Steve asked me to join him for a photo shoot at the Newport Car Museum studio a week ago Sunday. It was a very nice …
Remove Unwanted Reflections
in Photoshop
My friend Steve Szydlowski has been photographing exotic cars for the Newport Car Museum and recently complained about …
Heritage Photo Auctions – October 2024
Whenever I get a notice of an upcoming photo auction from Heritage Auctions, I make a beeline to the site and spend one …
Public Parks Around Us – 2
I was talking about the public parks in Rhode Island and presented views from two of them in the previous post. This is …
Public Parks Around Us – 1
The availability of public parks is a great service provided by the state or the cities. Since Rhode Island has a very …
A Black and White Conversion Approach in Lightroom
I wrote an article titled Better B&W Conversion In Lightroom many years ago and have been using that method since. …