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I’ve said it here before that you can shoot infrared any time of the year and I’ve made IR images made during the winter when deciduous trees have shed all of their leaves but I always feel that the results are not that much different from a well crafted black & white photograph. Or maybe not?

National Book Month is observed during October. As warm temperatures start to fade away for the cooler —or colder, snowier—winter weather, it’s the perfect time to kick back, have a cup of tea or glass of wine and curl up with a good book.

I’ve loved Westerns since I was a kid. Maybe it was because it was the first kind of movies that I saw when I started going to the movies by myself when I was about six or seven years old.

“Our lives at times seem a study in contrast … everything seen in absolutes of black & white. Too often we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes.”—Ansel Adams

To me, the exposure compensation control is one of the most important parts of any DSLR or mirrorless camera and it’s the first control—after how to adjust the ISO setting—that I look for when shooting a new camera.