Blue Tracks on Vinyl
Classic jazz and blues sound better on vinyl. The tracks really come to life when a diamond stylus extracts them from the grooves on an LP.

Insects with an LED ring flash
In an earlier post I said I didn’t like flash for insect photos because it looks fake-y. But I decided to try a ring flash anyway.

A Bug’s World of Color
Like many photographers during the COVID-19 epidemic, I’m finding it hard to get out to photograph things, so I’ve been thinking about macro. Luckily we put a lot of native plants in the yard a few years ago, and they attract a great variety of insects.

Lenses are the real deal
Smartphones have crushed the camera market like a handful of dry twigs.
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