When I was a kid, I had the good fortune to have parents and grandparents who loved me and wanted to give me as many opportunities for personal growth and learning as possible. They found a camp for me; a month-long, sleepover, boy’s camp founded on Christian values and building self-confidence in young men–you know, […]
This blog is dedicated to my wife Hanna, who has to put up with my complaining and frustration every winter as I pass through these winter doldrums. It is also dedicated to Isaac, my intrepid companion on many of my excursions. He puts up with cold, rain, and boredom in exchange for the occasional ice […]
Fuji shooters, I somehow missed the announcement of this lens firmware update, so presumably others did, too. Yesterday I updated both my X-E1 and X-E2 with the recently released firmware, and upon mounting my 18mm f/2 to the X-E2, found that it had firmware available also. This update follows the others from a few months […]
 “The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart….To go alone…into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth–it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.†–Thomas Wolfe As I prepare a ‘Year in Review’ […]
Dawn and Robert have been married for ten years, and finally had the wedding they’d always wanted. Durham fixtures who I have had the good fortune to get to know over the past few years, Dawn and Robert are incredibly kind, thoughtful, and charismatic people that have assembled a fascinating crowd of friends and family […]
Okay, okay… all you folks have been champing at the bit since what seems like the beginning of September to get your holiday spirit on and put up the lights, wreaths, and Christmas trees, and it’s finally time. Let loose the caroling crooners over the airwaves, bring on the gingerbread, stockings, elves, menorahs, and dreidels. […]
I’m going to go off script for a moment. It’s Black Friday, I’m at home with my family, eating homemade beef stew that’s been slowly cooking for more than twenty-four hours. My family’s all out of town for Thanksgiving, spending time with other family, and I am acutely aware of their absence. We had friends […]
My annual trip to the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro represents my first opportunity to shoot the Fujifilm X-E2 since it came recently. I had used it some before today, but not extensively, and not handling it in more “real world” scenarios. I had a day off with my son, the weather looked promisingly mild […]
This morning I opened Photoshop to edit the above photo, with the intent of using Color Efex Pro to make the photo look suitably hipster-vintage. Lo and behold, the new Analog Efex Pro had quietly inserted itself and is now another tool available when I want to make my digital photos look analog! I have only […]
My dad’s expression here pretty much sums up my feelings about the new Fuji X-E2, which I just got in my hands today. I am being hyperbolic, but I’ll explain myself. And no, I am not unhappy with the camera–in fact, I love it, and it fixes so many of the little niggles that I […]
