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Posted on July 16, 2022September 10, 2022

Dragonflies and Damselflies

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Posted on December 18, 2020March 9, 2025

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.

Photograph of a vinyl LP record and turntable needle.
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Posted on August 16, 2020February 24, 2022

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.

Photograph of a ring flash
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Posted on July 31, 2020February 24, 2022

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.

Honeybee on Butterflyweed
Honeybee on Butterfly weed
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Posted on December 18, 2019March 11, 2025

Lenses are the real deal

Smartphones have crushed the camera market like a handful of dry twigs.

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  • Bricks
  • Woodpecker Portrait Session
  • The Northern Flicker
  • The Downy Woodpecker
  • Crazy Ice On The Creek
  • Photography: What’s Left?
  • A Highway At Night
  • A Darker Minneapolis
  • Hover Flies: Pollinators In Disguise
  • On The Franklin Avenue Bridge
  • Stay Cool In The Skyways
  • In The Wind
  • The Rusty Patched bumble bee
  • A Hot Day Downtown
  • The Sleeping Queens
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies
  • Cycling Nowhere
  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
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  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
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  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
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  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

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