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The Streets of Alaska

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My annual photo safari road trip needed an upgrade, so I renewed my passport and booked an eleven day cruise of street photography along the Alaskan coast.

The Crown Princess, 19 decks of floating buffets, lounge singers, duty free alcohol, restaurants and bars, left the…

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Reflections Of...

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A gallery of street photography.

First of all, YES, you are supposed to have Diana Ross in your ear now.

I’m attempting to work mostly in camera. The goal is to post the camera produced jpegs. It’s also an experimental platform for programming film simulations…

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And Yea, We Bounced Through the Valley of Death

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Don and Dave Expose Themselves in Death Valley

We loaded Dave's pickup full of snacks and lenses and booked it out to Nevada for the first photo safari of 2022.

This was the long-awaited sequel to our 1993 Field Studies with San Jose State University's…

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The Piano in the Meadow

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The last photo safaris of 2021.  A weekend in apple picking country and another in Mariposa.

Apple Spice Safari

Highway 101 North to Rohnert Park put us on 116, leading us to Sebastopol and Guerneville. Along the way, we passed a grand piano in a…

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High Speed Flash Sync

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By Default, the X-T3 (and X-Pro3) will synchronize a flash with the shutter at shutter speeds of 1/180 s or slower.

By setting the flash sync setting in the Camera menu, you can sync the Godox flash up to 1/4000.

>The flash must be attached…

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Photo Day Trips

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Grab the camera, a bottle of water, hop in the Prius and get the hell out of town for a few hours.

The Marin Headlands, just across the Golden Gate Bridge is home to Fort Army Barry and the Nike Missile Launch Site SF-88.  This…

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Photo Crawl MeetUp

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Photo Crawling Back, 2021 & 2022, and then some 2023

The vaccines are flowing, the mask mandates are lifting, the country is getting back to normal, and the San Francisco Photography Workshop and Portfolio Builders MeetUp (#SFPhotoCrawl) is back.

Time to see if I…

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Up the Coast

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Cracked, Stacked and fully VAXed!

Time to make like a tree and get the f******ck outa town.

Though the mask mandates are still in place in much of California, enough of the state has opened for a roar trip up Hwy 101.  From the Bay…

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