Opinions, Reviews, & Musings of the ZooKeeper
And it’s about time! In the years that I was using the Canon Elan IIe, I took thousands of shots on professional grade color slide film. In the beginning, I paid a local printing company to scan them on their high-end flatbed scanner. It really did a nice job, although it was too costly to […]
A Glimpse Into The Kitchen Of The Roaring Twenties A long, long time ago, I came to possess a cookbook that was published in 1927. It was a one-off publishing of a fundraiser entitled “Selected Recipes Chosen by The Woman’s Board of The Jackson Park Sanitarium Stock Yards Day Nursery” I was still a teenager, […]
A World Of Difference In The Resulting Images The only way to get a true representation of the difference between a digitally captured image, and a film captured image is take the photos of the same subject at virtually the same time, with the same lens and camera settings. However, you can still see some […]
My Sony Cybershot Turned out to be a very good camera for closeup shots of roses and other flowers, with macro capability at the press of a button. The problem with changing from one camera to another–from film to digital, or point and shoot to dSLR–is one of experience. As you work with a camera, […]
In 2003, I was still using my Canon Elan IIe and slide film. Here are a dozen photos of roses I took over the course of that summer. I had only come to realize I had an eye for floral photography the year before, so I spent a lot of time at the local rose […]
Long Before The First Digital Camera I started my on-and-off-again love affair with photography in high school, when I took my first photography class. My desire to work behind the camera never waned, to tell the truth, but my resources were often too thin. Until the last decade or so, the serious photographer–hobbyist or professional–not […]
Angels We Have Heard On High I thought I’d share some of the photos I’ve taken of my Christmas Angels. After all, Christmas will be here before you know it, or at least before you’re ready. The truth is out. I like to collect things. And among the things I like to collect are Christmas […]