Monday, October 15, 2007





At a weekly street music festival, Summer 2007. These photos were taken with a wonderful Nikon D70s that was given to me by a good friend. They were taken with a Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens and the people were very gracious about being photographed. "Street Photography" isn't really very dangerous if your are happy and positive to those whom we are photographing. Kindness works miracles.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Below are a few more digital Holga photos. These are photos taken with a high quality Digital SLR camera, but the high-tech digital lens has been replaced with a simple one element plastic Holga toy camera lens. This produces an image with a special soft glowing feel unlike most expensive lenses.

These photos are of a wind-spinner on my porch. The first is a straight image of the spider spinner, then a photo taken through it focusing on the branch in the background, and finally, a photo of the spinner with a close-up lens diopter on the Holga lens. The photos were converted from color to monochrome.




Monday, January 22, 2007

HolyOly Photos





Recently I've been doing some photography with a digital camera and Holga toy camera lens. The Holga lens is mounted onto a digital camera body cap and that is mounted on the camera. I have one I use on my Olympus E-300. I call it the HolyOly. These digital Holga body cap assemblies can be purchased through Randy Smith at www.holgamods.com. Attached are a few samples I took today.

Cell Phone Photography


I recently obtained a new cell phone and it was equipped with a very decent camera. Yesterday I was walking my dogs on a very foggy morning and did not have my standard camera with me. I saw about 8 Turkey Vultures sitting on the fence and warming up in trees and on telephone poles. All I had was my cell phone, so I tried taking a few snaps. It was difficult to see the monitor so I needed to line up the phone with the poles and street and hope for the best. Here is one interesting example. The photo is converted to b/w.