HUNGER makes perfect sauce
It’s been a while since I’ve made it up to the Summit of Mt Baldy so when an opportunity came along to take a day off from work I jumped right on it. I checked the weather forecast and it looked promising — sunny with nice, puffy cloud cover — just what I enjoy the [...]
I despised trekking poles until I could no longer hike downhill after straining my knee on the Ski Hut trail (Mt Baldy). It was either hike with poles or stay home. I figured it’s worth a shoot and boy oh boy what a big difference they made on the trail. The trekking poles tend to [...]
Clark Little lives in the tube with the Nikon D3 and NIKKOR 16mm Fisheye lens in an underwater housing. It’s mind boggling the type of images he’s been able to capture in just two years — he started in 2007 after his wife asked him to take a picture of a tube so she could [...]
As you spend more and more time in the wilderness you quickly realize that the heaviest thing you carry is water. Water weighs ~ 2.2 lbs. per liter (or quart). During a moderate hike I typically consume 1 liter per 4 miles, during high altitude (> 8000ft) or high elevation gain hikes my water consumption [...]
We failed! That’s right, we failed to summit Mt. Baldy via the Ski Hut Trail stopping 1213′ short of the summit. This trail was just too steep and the 3 liters of water that each of us was carrying in CamelBak was not enough! I was basing our water ration on 4 miles per liter [...]
Super Trekker loaded, originally uploaded by DigitalHeMan. Here’s what DigitalHeMan — nature photographer from Amsterdam, Netherlands solution is to carrying the big and heavy Nikon 600mm mounted on Nikon D3 is. Impressive load! I don’t know if I am dedicated enough to put this on my back for a day in the field!
After traveling with Think Tank Urban Disguise 60 to Italy which required traversing two airports and one smaller commuter plane from Germany to Florence I realized that I needed a small backpack to redistribute the weight evenly between my shoulders and hips. Because as you know, photo equipment gets heavier by the minute once it’s [...]
Why Domke F-4AF Pro System Bag? Because it allows you to retrieve and replace your camera quickly and snag-free. Typically, I keep the camera with an appropriate lens mounted on my shoulder and extra lenses stashed in the Domke F-3X (or any other small shoulder bag). But there are cases when that doesn’t work very [...]
Ever since I picked up 70-200mm I noticed two things: I take more people pictures. I take less pictures overall. Nothing wrong with that but I miss those spontaneous, creative moments where I’d just grab a camera and take a picture of something that looks interesting to me. That I cannot do with Nikon D3 [...]
Just received Canon 500D 77mm Close Up Lens and immediately mounted it on the Nikon 70-200mm with my Nikon D3 … WOW shallow depth of field is the first thing that hits you with this setup. But the smooth bokeh this combo produces is simply astonishing:
