Category Archives: Reflection

Infinity Bird 0

Infinity Bird by Richard. These birds came and went as they pleased. The room was completely open to the outside and this was what we saw from the breakfast table. The birds would fly into the room and perch near the table and hope to steal crumbs or anything else that they could get away [...]

Prime lenses are…well, prime! 2

Heron in the Rain, by Richard. I had rented a 400mm f/2.8 prime lens for a trip I was about to take and brought it to our local bird sanctuary to test it out. It was heavy, weighing in at about 12 pounds and it was big, about 18 inches long without the #10 can-sized [...]

Amy at the Window 2

Amy at the Window, by Richard. At the last Dobb’s Ferry workshop that Joe McNally held, we were grouped into teams based on our small flash brand. Our assignment was to find a location in the fantastic old and deteriorating factory building where the workshop was hosted and to create a lighting solution for a [...]

From the archives… 0

Waiting for the Bus, by Richard. It was September, 1963. I had just gotten my first SLR, a black body Nikon F with a 50mm f/1.4 lens. It cost me $300 and I had to borrow it from my mother. I had been taking pictures since the mid 1950s with a variety of cameras, 4×5 [...]