Category Archives: Telephoto

Learning by Experimenting 1

Fall Focus, by richard It was one of the last warm days of summer.  The reeds and grasses in the bird sanctuary had started to go to seed and the light was getting lower and warmer earlier and earlier.  We took the gear for a walk and I mounted the old Nikon 500mm mirror lens [...]

Canikon 0

Flower bug at 500mm by Richard. I got a Nikon lens to Canon body adapter from Zork and have used it on several of my lenses from the Nikon F film days. This is the 500mm mirror lens and it’s a beauty! It is fixed f/8 so there is no whining about having to shoot [...]

Take out slide 1

Second Base Ballet by Richard. Scott Kelby and Mike Olivella are holding a contest for amateur sport shooters called “Shoot on the Sidelines With Scott & Mike“. We can upload a single sports photo to the contest’s Flickr site and a winner will be chosen to join them on the sidelines of the Florida State [...]

Baltimore Inner Harbor 0

Walker Photo, by Richard. We went to Baltimore on Friday to participate in Saturday’s Worldwide Photowalk sponsored by NAPP and the brainchild of its founder and president Scott Kelby. We chose Baltimore for this year since we drive through it when visiting friends in Virginia and wanted to see a bit of it from somewhere [...]