The flooded playa at Death Valley, as it would be seen by a being who evolved on a planet orbiting a cool red star…
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In late summer 2023, an extreme rainfall event transformed Death Valley’s arid landscape. Flash floods converted the Badwater salt flat into a shallow lake, which was strikingly captured in photographs during a stormy winter evening.
Leave a CommentThe Minolta M Rokkor 28mm f/2.8 may be the 28mm legacy rangefinder lens most suitable for use on digital mirrorless cameras. In addition to outstanding sharpness and contrast, it displays no noticeable corner color shift and easily corrected vignetting.
4 CommentsHaleakala may be the crown jewel of Maui and the Hawaiian Islands. It is a landscape that resists plant colonization owing to its harsh climate and infertile terrain. Its ephemeral beauty is best captured during the fleeting perfect light of dusk, as the red and orange cinders shimmer in the quick-fading tropical twilight.
4 CommentsAs practiced today, geology is not a science but a pursuit of observations for their own sake, not all that different from collecting stamps.
Comments closedJG Ballard’s The Delta at Sunset, written in 1964, bears more than a passing resemblance to Hemingway’s much more famous The Snows of Kilimanjaro, from…
3 CommentsThe 28mm focal length is versatile, but not easy to use. Street photographers like it because of how much they can fit into it, but…
23 CommentsI remember the short-lived Icarex 35 SLR system from the time when I was becoming interested in photography, in the mid to late 1960’s. Even…
10 CommentsIn an accompanying article I wrote some generalities about the Icarex 35 SLR system from the 1960’s. I wrote there that, in my view, there…
20 CommentsWas the age of steam in black and white? No, of course not, but the temptation is there, when photographing ancient railroads, to render them…
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