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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 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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Long Exposures and Starbursts With Small Apertures
March 16, 2025 - Have you ever been disappointed? Yes? Me too, I wanted to see northern lights when they had been visible the night befor...
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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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Steam on the Rails
May 10, 2019 - Life always seems to get in the way of doing the fun things, but at the heart of it life really is the fun things as wel...
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Taking a Chance to RUN AWAY!!!!
June 10, 2018 - There are a few things about married adulthood with kids that are hard for me. One is that it is very hard to just up st...
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Finally Ready to Render an Informed Opinion: Pentax DFA 150mm-450mm f4.5-5.6 ED DC AW
May 07, 2017 - Alrighty, I was provided with a gift from a kindly benefactor, the Pentax DFA 150mm-450mm f4.5-5.6 ED DC AW Telephoto Le...
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Shoot what is in front of you...
February 12, 2017 - It is easy to want to take amazing photos EVERY TIME you pull out your camera. It is much harder to actually take photos...
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Horseshoe Canyon: Getting Down to Business
January 14, 2017 - Horseshoe Canyon... this place is on my list of where to go again, considering the number of places I have yet to go in...
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How to go Macro on a Budget... or not...
November 15, 2016 - I have long been fascinated by the ability of some folks to take incredibly detailed super close shots. One of the first...
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Balloons in the Fall! Does it get any better?
October 17, 2016 - The opportunity to look at, be near, chase, or simply revel in the presence of hot air balloons is one that I am loath t...
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What does it mean to "Photoshop" a photo?
September 02, 2016 - Yesterday morning Sept. 1st, I played hooky from work, but still got up early instead of sleeping in! Crazy right? My in...
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Looking up!
August 03, 2016 - I will be the first person to admit that if you tell me one lens is sharper than another that I already have and hand it...
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