I was having coffee with professional photographer and all around good guy Barry Staver last week and we were talking about the Panasonic Lumix GH7. The GH6 may be slightly cheaper but since the the word on the street is that while Lumix GH6 is a superb video camera, the GH5 or even G9 are better for shooting still images. Then there is the GH7’s size…

When my wife asked me to recommend a book about photography to her sister, I suggested Discover Your Self Through Photography by Ralph Hattersley. This was written in 1971 long before digital photography and smart phones and eschews the traditional approach to f/stops, shutter speed and film speeds prevalent at the time but it reaches deep inside to, in fact, help you Discover Your Self Through Photography. Then there is…

This casual portrait of my young Dad was made in the backyard of his parent’s—my grandparents—home on Montford Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland sometime around 1940. I don’t know if it was my Mom who made this shot but since he’s smiling it could have been and I like to think that it was.

I’m pretty sure that the first book I ever read was The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff that was originally published in 1933. The first English translation was published in 1933, which I didn’t read until 1949 when my second grade class from St Catherine of Siena school visited the Clifton Park branch of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library. I was hooked right away.

Last Saturday I decoded to take a chance and shoot some (infrared) photographs for the first time without Mary helping me. Armed with a Lumix GX1 that had been converted to infrared by Life Pixel using their Hyper Color filter, I set off to make some images at McCabe Meadows. How did it go? It was OK and not without some mobility challenges and pain but I shot enough RAW+JPEG images (48) to write this post.