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Go Long or Go Home? Tokina AT-X 400 AF f5.6
August 16, 2026 - Well, it has been a bit, I have been doing sparse photo stuff, but I have just not been wanting to sit down and process...
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Vintage Lens: SMC Pentax 50mm f1.4
July 07, 2026 - I'm finally back blogging, I hit a bit of a funk after damaging that lens and my K1 (see my previous post), and I am a f...
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Part 2 a Bag Full of Lenses Pentax 35mm's
March 11, 2026 - I am back with a big bag of lenses to test but this time all of the 35mm focal length. I have changed how I went about t...
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Let's Focus More Closely on the SMC PENTAX 1:3.5/28 lens
January 13, 2026 - My most previous post to this one came about as a off shoot of preparing for this post, asking a fellow Pentaxian for a...
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SMC PENTAX 1:2.8 24mm Tested and a little compared.
November 18, 2025 - Time for another post! I believe I mentioned in my last one that I was going to be testing this one next, but if you mis...
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The Good, The Bad & The Chromatic Abberant Pentax SMC 135mm f2.5 on Full Frame
October 20, 2025 - After a little break, back to the blog!
On a personal note life has, as always. been busy between work, and yard and a...
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Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC in Pentax K Mount
August 26, 2025 - I sometimes find myself believing that the purest form of photography involves identifying a scene you want to capture,...
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When Plans Actually Work!!!
August 09, 2025 - I had never been to Washington D.C. I HAD wanted to visit for years. So when an opportunity to go was presented I was mo...
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Playing with old lenses is FUN!!!!!!
July 14, 2025 - Every now and then something fun happens. You run into an old friend on the street when you were just thinking about the...
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Part 17: Durham Cathedral & Last Stop: Chatsworth House
June 23, 2025 - You will have to forgive me a but of meandering here. I am both happy to be nearing the end of this project, I am realiz...
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Part 16: Paisley Town and Thereabouts
June 21, 2025 - Ah... Paisley. My wife had ancestors living there in the 1850's before they immigrated to Utah. They were weavers as so...
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Part 15: Hermitage Castle & The Borders
June 09, 2025 - We are in our last week now, we have revised itinerary a little, I knew I had one castle left I HAD to get back to, and...
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Part 14: Edinburgh and Thereabouts
June 07, 2025 - On several FB pages I followed when planning our trip and that I still follow. (Trying to be helpful when I can.) Severa...
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Part 13: Skye but mostly Dunvegan Castle then Inverarary Castle
June 02, 2025 - Sadly our trip required significant sacrifices, one of them was a thorough exploration of Skye, we are not hikers and we...
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Part 12: Isle of Harris & Lewis featuring Callanish Standing Stones
May 27, 2025 - Lewis and Harris, northern end of the Hebrides Island chain, I had visited Barra back during my school days. I had consi...
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Part 11: Thurso to Ullapool
May 18, 2025 - This post really made me a little "Travelsick" which is the opposite of Homesick. I found myself wishing to be back on t...
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Part 11: Orkney: Standing Stones of Brodgar
May 11, 2025 - If there is anything beyond Castles that I love about Scotland it is stone circles. Yes, I know that there are circles f...
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Part 10: Strathspey to Orkney
May 04, 2025 - Who does NOT like the Highlands of Scotland? If it is you, well I doubt your taste in travel. While we did not spend day...
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Part 9: Day Trips From Aberdeen = Castles
April 30, 2025 - I know there is more to Scotland than Castles, but my brain simply equates them as the same. The castles are not the gra...
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Part 8: The City of Aberdeen
April 21, 2025 - I have been struggling with order of presentation of this trip and not just dumping every photo on you that I took. Prob...
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Part 7 Aberdeen and Thereabouts
April 20, 2025 - From a travelogue viewpoint our overnight train from London to Aberdeen was uneventful in a good way. We were tired and...
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Part 6 Finishing Up London
April 06, 2025 - Time to wrap up London and prepare for the trip north. We wanted to see the Notting Hill area, being fans of the movie,...
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Part 5 Tower of London & Tower Bridge
April 06, 2025 - Ahhhh... the Tower of London, I love it for the history, I love it for the location. Visiting it should be done at least...
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Part 4 St. Paul's Cathedral
April 06, 2025 - I gotta tell ya, this was the one place I had to go to when I was in London, seriously, I could have skipped the rest an...
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Part 3 Breakfast Spot and Kings Cross Rail Station
March 23, 2025 - After waking up at a late London morning hour but not too late, to adjust to the jetlag. We headed out for breakfast and...
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Time to go on a Trip Part 2 of Many: Big Ben & Westminster
March 23, 2025 - When I go to a famous landmark I am quite aware that those landmarks have been photographed more times than can easily b...
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Time to go on a trip... part 1 of several...
March 18, 2025 - Are any of you readers old enough to remember when one of your parents friends, or maybe your cousins family would go on...
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Old Manual Focus Lenses and Modern DLSR's, Pentax SMC 200mm f2.5
March 11, 2025 - I believe I mentioned this before but, one of the draws to Pentax is the backward compatibility of their lenses. In my m...
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Gaining Experience and Confidence With a New Camera
March 08, 2025 - Have you even had to re-learn something that had become automatic? After 11 years with my K-5, I KNEW that camera, what...
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There are sensors and then there are SENSORS......
February 25, 2025 - One of the biggest, and most expensive parts of modern Digital Cameras is the actual sensor that receives the light and...
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Getting to know a new camera....
February 23, 2025 - So... you just bought a new camera, like I did, what now? You gotta stretch and try stuff you couldn't do with your old...
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Life and GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)
February 17, 2025 - Well, I have neglected this blog a little and that is OK. I hope to spend more time here for the near future as a way to...
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