I drowned my Canon PowerShot recently. I actually drowned several, but not on purpose of course. This last one was drowned for the sake of a few good images. Read the story about the surprisingly waterproof Canon cameras.
 

I was lucky enough to acquire a couple of lenses that I hade craved for a while: the 17-55mm f2.8 DX and the 70-200mm f2.8 VR. Both are exactly what I imagined. High grade, professional, sturdy and with an image quality to match their price. These lenses are not inexpensive... Here's a little snippet with my first experience and some samples.

I had some fun with B/W conversion these last couple of weeks and boiled my experience down to a small article on the subject.

The lack of mountains and widestretched plains forces me to concentrate my landscape photography on urban landscapes. The technique is basically the same and the results often strikingly similar. Find the vistas of your own town.

I have scanned a lot of slides lately, and that has reminded me about the dust, the grain and the hardship of handling film. Not that the result isn't good. It certainly is. But the trouble to get from unexposed film to finished image in the computer. Do you remember that?.

When I hear people whining about full-format or not, dust on the sensor or noise at high ISO's, I just recall the memory of developing Tri-X 400 ASA film and trying to get a decent B/W print from it.

I have been a Minolta-man for all my life. My photographic career started with a Minolta SR-7, which I kindly "borrowed" from my Dad, and I have stuck with Minolta ever since going through quite a few models: XM, XG-7, 7000, 7000i, Dynax/Maxxum 7 and 7D. Until recently, where I acquired a Nikon D200.

That marked a major change in my gear career. And that is the reason why I created this web site. I want to tell the story and talk about why I changed, what I gain — and what I loose.