Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity. —Marilyn Monroe

It seems like its a given that the movie is never as good as the book. I am sure there are more than a few movies that are as good as the book but I;d like to talk about one—Lost Horizon—that I think is much better than the novel it’s based on.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.—Ernst Haas

Some time ago, I wrote a facetious post about guide numbers called Guide Numbers: A Bedtime Story. Every now and then I hear forma reader who are looking for more information about Guide Numbers, even though they’re not a big a deal as they were in previous decades, wanting a more serious answer and so here it is.

One of Ansel Adams most famous quotes was that the secret of making great photographs is simply “knowing where to point the camera,” That’s something that is harder than it sounds, especially after schlepping a nine-pound Canon EF 500 f/4.0L IS USM lens, monopod, and camera body combination around California’s Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca all day.