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Your camera’s Shutter Priority (Tv) mode gives you control over whether a subject motion is sharp or blurred. When using telephoto lenses the old school rule is to use shutter speeds that are the equivalent of the reciprocal of the lens’s focal length and it’s one place to start.

Because of the nearly white reproduction of most vegetation’s chlorophyll, digital infrared photographs render landscapes as if they were glowing, moonlit or immersed in an extraterrestrial light.

these days you’ll find me on Instagram where all of my  posts are photographs that are related to this blog pr maybe just images that I wanted to make and are not driven by astroturfing and payola. It’s just photos I’ve shot and am still making. Why? To paraphrase Quentin Tarantino, “because i love making photographs!”

In the last episode of Things I Promised Not to Tell, I asked readers “… if anybody bothers to read this, maybe I can expand one of the sections into an upcoming installment…” Well this is that installment is one of them; more if you like.

Aside from a Holga, my only other medium format film camera was a birthday gift from my wife Mary. It’s a gold-trimmed Seagull 4A-107G Limited Collector’s Edition medium format TLR. OK, it’s not a Rollei but that didn’t stop Seagull from trying to make a nice camera.

Once upon a time, I was lucky enough to spend a few nights in the Cadogan Hotel, in the heart of London’s Chelsea neighborhood.  Way back in the day, Oscar Wilde frequently hosted friends at the hotel’s bar. Me? I had breakfast tea and toast in a cozy area just off the hotel’s lobby. What’s that got to do with photography? Let me tell you a story…