Day 4 consisted of waking up early in the morning in Susanville, and simply heading back. Despite being having driven more than 12 hours the previous day, we still had a 9+ hour journey ahead of us and as with much of our short break, we didn’t have too much time for stopping and photography. On the way back we did want to choose one place to stop however and that ended up being a little park in Lassen National forest. After a short break there, and a few photos, …

I recently wrote about an adapter I bought for my 5D which allowed me to mount my old Olympus OM Zuiko lenses on it. In that post, I provided a couple of samples with a normal range 55mm f/1.2. Here’s a quick update with a longer lens – the Olympus OM Zuiko 135mm f/2.8, with a particular emphasis with how it performs with a Canon 5D Mark II.
I’m a big fan of the old Olympus Zuiko lenses which have a few interesting characteristics:

They are very compact
They can be cheap …

Most of you who are familiar with my pictures will already know recognise Akuri from my pictures. Well recently, she’s been active behind the camera, making use of one of my Olympus OM-1’s. Here are a few pictures from her from the past couple of months… It’s interesting – our house has been filled with the best DSLR equipment in the past 5 years yet Akuri’s never really picked up a camera with much interest. It took an old dusty OM-1 lying around to get her on the photographer side …

This weekend I experimented with a new technique called “Painting with Light”. It involves shooting subjects in total darkness with very long shutter speeds, and then taking an artificial light source (e.g. a lamp) and “painting” the subject with the light. When done properly, the effect is very interesting – more interesting in some respects that what can easily be achieved with regular studio equipment due to the degree of selective lighting.
This is my first serious attempt so bear with me. You’ll see more of this in coming weeks …

Once in a while, friends of mine ask me to photograph their family / dogs / childen/ etc. The conversation is not always an easy one. In the early days when I was just starting out with photography, and I…

I am nearly finished with shooting at the abandoned mansion featured in all the images in my Fragments gallery. I’ve just a few last photos to take and then will stop visiting there regularly after this weekend. So these are…