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While browsing the Internet, I saw what I was looking for: The Samyang 85mm f/1.4 that’s priced at $229. Since that’s less than a EF 85mm f/1.8 costs I knew there had to be a catch and there was: The lens is manual focus.

Today’s Post by Barry Staver. Joe’s a modest guy who’s blushing right now as you read this. He wouldn’t share it himself so with arm-twisting I’m doing that for him.

One of my favorite classic movies is 1936’a Things to Come that’s based on a novel by H.G. Wells and directed by William Cameron Menzies. What’s that got to do with this post. Well not much, but it’s shot on film and foretells what’s to come and that’s what I’m going to try to do today.

When used for portraiture, how much light output is a single LED light bulb going to produce? Today’s Post tells it all…

Much to my wife’s consternation I have always wanted to visit Easter Island to, what else, photograph “the heads.” I’ll probably never make this bucket list trip so this infrared photograph made at the Arvada  Center for the Performing Arts may be as close as I get.

There are three reasons why I wrote the 37 books that have been published so far. I once told one of the editors of my most recent books what the three reasons were and she asked, “what said that?’ I told her: “I did.”