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  • My future transportation... out getting measured for a wheelchair. link
  • Making an email newsletter Outlook compatible is about the worst (and hardest) task I have had for a long time. Never again!
  • Just bought a new Asus U36 laptop. Man it's a nice machine! But how I hate moving my stuff from one pc to another!
  • We're celebrating my wife's 50th birthday tomorrow and she baked a few muffins to sweeten the day. link
  • Signed up for Klout a wihle back. I'm now influential about photography, fishing, whisky and Iceland! Go figure...
  • Fantastic pictures with one man composited to dozens even hundreds link
  • Make that Interrupters and link
  • Watching The Interruptors link another excellent documentary. About fighting Chicago street violence.
  • Great Brocos Steelers game! Tebow deserved it.
  • The more I drink the better Tebow and Broncos play. Me thinks me'll have another glass!
  • Port, chocolate and playoff football. Not a bad combo! Cheers
  • #nfl play-offs starting. Woot! Great way to spend a Saturday night.
  • Watching Charles Ferguson's documentary Inside Job link It's good! But not improving my trust in the financial sector!
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More than 30 years with SLR's - film as well as digital
Date: 27/06/2006 - Updated: 20/01/2011 06:30
Latest pictures
Old shots from 2003, film and digital, all kinds of cameras and lenses
Posted: 06/10/2011

Sigma 50mm f/1.4

I have a weakness for bright lenses and always had great experiences with Sigma. So when I wanted a bright 50mm, I found it natural to look closer at Sigma's offering.
Posted: 03/10/2011

What's in my bag

I see these articles and videos all over the web, and like reading and watching them. Despite claiming that it's not the gear that does it, we're obsessed with equipment, aren't we? So here is my annotated gear list.
Posted: 15/02/2011

Exercise your photography muscles

Bring your camera, take pictures, have fun, become a better photographer,
Posted: 20/01/2011

I shoot RAW for the future

There is an ongoing and almost eternal debate on the net about JPG versus RAW. I don't take part in it. I just shoot RAW and here is why.
Posted: 17/01/2011

Fun with fisheyes

I have had a couple of fisheye lenses in my long career with SLR's and have always considered them a lot of fun.
Posted: 16/01/2011

Nikon 35mm f/1.8

This lens is a no-brainer for any Nikon owner! It might not be the best lens Nikon ever made, but the quality to price ratio is unsurpassed.
Posted: 09/01/2011

Sigma 20mm f/1.8

I've always liked two things in my lenses: wide angle and brightness. Combine the two and you have a winner!
Posted: 28/10/2010

Sigma 10-20mm

My acquisition of a Sigma 10-20mm wideangle zoom many years ago was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, to quote Bogart in Casablanca. It is just my kind of lens.
Posted: 18/10/2010

Simple setups

I often use some very simple ”studio” setups to shoot small items in my office or my living room, even my bedroom. There's no reason to make things too complicated.
Posted: 04/10/2010

Flash modifiers: filters or gels

This is probably the most often used flash modifier apart from the diffuser—if not, perhaps it ought to be.
Posted: 30/09/2010

Flash modifiers: snoots and grids

A snoot is a tube in front of your flash, which keeps its beam of light tight and concentrated, while a grid has lots of smaller, parallel tubes that do essentially the same thing.
Posted: 28/09/2010

Flash modifiers: diffusers

This article is about different small flash diffusers, definitely the most common light modifiers.
Posted: 28/09/2010

Flash modifiers: intro

This is the first of a series of articles on flash modifiers – thingamajigs that can make your flash photography more interesting and give you more control over the light.
Posted: 27/09/2010

Lensbaby, yeah!

If you want to have a ton of fun with your DSLR and like to take creative and different images, you need to acquire a Lensbaby.
Posted: 19/08/2010

How you can make your own books

Books on demand is a great way of getting your pictures on print. If no one else wants to publish you, you just do it yourself! This is a small guide to using the program BookSmart from Blurb.com.
Posted: 14/08/2010

Life starts at f/1.8

I have always loved bright lenses. If money was no issue, all my lenses would have f/1.4 and f/1.8 stamped on them. A few slow ones would be f/2.8, but only the slow ones...
Posted: 04/08/2010

Kodachrome

Kodachrome was the film love of my life. Now that love story is over. The last roll has been produced—and shot and processed.
Posted: 31/07/2010

Orbis ringflash adapter

I have always been fascinated by ringflash photography.
Posted: 30/07/2010

A small DIY striplight

Striplights are a great type of softboxes that give a nice, characteristic and very controlled light
Posted: 28/07/2010

I do books!

Publishing books has never been easier, and I thought I'd have some fun putting my own pictures in books.

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I have dug out this site and will start updating it again. For personal reasons I have left it alone for a while, but I miss writing about photography. So new and old writings will be finding their way her in the coming time.

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