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“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

I like cookies, at least most kinds of cookies. Like Snoopy, I’m no fan of coconut cookies and I simply love Christmas sugar cookies. Oreo’s? I can take’m or leave’em, unless they’re a lens!

Paul Simon once said that talent evolves, changes and grows over time. Take his own career, for example, “Sound of Silence” doesn’t sound anything like “Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes.” I think this applies to photographers as well.

The long answer to the above question is no and yes. The big summertime car shows are still far, far away, especially as I look out the window of my office and there’s still lots of snow on Daisy Hill today.

Back in the film photography days almost every lens that you bought came with its own lens hood. And not just any hood but a real jumping-up-and-down metal lens hood. Nowadays most camera and some lens companies make lens hoods optional and some of these hood can be expensive,

A reader once e-mailed me asking “Why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?” I wrote a post responding to that question and you can see some of my answer to her question here. But today I would like to explore and maybe explode some common myths about digital infrared photography: