# The Noisy Shutter

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## Posts

- [Minolta X-700:  An Old Friend](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2026/01/04/minolta-x-700-an-old-friend/): “The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson 
- [“Trash Table” Lenses:  How bad could they be?](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/11/30/trash-table-lenses-how-bad-could-they-be/): “Did I not say that you would be a burden, that you would not survive in the wild and that you have no place amongst us? I've never been so wrong in all my life.” -Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), The Hobbit 
- [Canon in the Canyon:  The EOS 650](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/11/08/canon-in-the-canyon-the-eos-650/): “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam 
- [A Look at the Effects of Maximum Aperture](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/10/15/a-look-at-the-effects-of-maximum-aperture/): “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” -Alan Watts 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Olympus OM-1n](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/10/07/classic-camera-review-olympus-om-1n/): “Make a picture, make a friend.” -Joe McNally 
- [Pentax P3 Goes to Tennessee](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/09/14/pentax-p3-goes-to-tennessee/): “They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.”  -Tex Ritter 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Minolta AF Reflex 500mm f8](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/08/25/legacy-lens-review-minolta-af-reflex-500mm-f8/): "It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible." -Aristotle
- [Classic Camera Review:  Pentax ME Super](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/07/17/classic-camera-review-pentax-me-super/): “Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru 
- [Follow-Up:  Olympus 55mm f1.2 UV Treatment Successful!](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/06/23/follow-up-olympus-55mm-f1-2-uv-treatment-successful/): “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” -Claude Monet 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Olympus Zuiko 55mm f1.2](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/06/11/legacy-lens-review-olympus-zuiko-55mm-f1-2/): “Dream delivers us to a dream, and there is no end to illusion.  Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue…” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Minolta XE-1](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/05/14/classic-camera-review-minolta-xe-1/): “I long so much to make beautiful things.  But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.” -Vincent Van Gogh 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/04/16/classic-camera-review-mamiya-sekor-1000dtl/): “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”. -Herman Melville
- [Classic Camera Review:  Minolta XG-M](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/02/19/classic-camera-review-minolta-xg-m/): "We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement.  That has been the sole purpose of our flights.  This one flies higher, that one faster.  But now we will make ourselves at home.  We will forget the machine, the tool.  It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed.  And through this tool we find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- [Classic Camera Review:  Olympus XA](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/01/25/classic-camera-review-olympus-xa/): “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” -Mark Twain 
- [Thoughts on Snobbery](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/01/22/thoughts-on-snobbery/): “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Contax 139 Quartz](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2025/01/04/classic-camera-review-contax-139-quartz/): “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” -Steve McCurry 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Nikon FM10](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/12/04/classic-camera-review-nikon-fm10/): “All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Canon A-1](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/10/27/classic-camera-review-canon-a-1/): “I mean, Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes that everyone liked…They left that to the Bee Gees.” Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers), Wayne’s World 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 AF](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/09/25/legacy-lens-review-vivitar-series-1-19-35mm-f3-5-4-5-af/): "I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces
 I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
 I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains
 I sing my song to the free." -Pete Townshend 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Pentax P30t](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/09/04/classic-camera-review-pentax-p30t/): “Handsome is as handsome does.” -J.R.R. Tolkien 
- [From the B-Side:  The Motor Drive](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/08/19/from-the-b-side-the-motor-drive/): “I have a thing for tools.” -Tim Allen 
- [Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor-O 35mm f2 Pre-Ai](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/07/15/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-o-35mm-f2-pre-ai/): "Old age hath yet his honour and his toil."  -Alfred Lord Tennyson
- [Classic Camera Review:  Canon EOS Elan 7E](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/06/22/classic-camera-review-canon-eos-elan-7e/): “Eos rose from her bed, where she lay by haughty Tithonos, to carry her light to men and to immortals." -Homer, Iliad 11. 1 ff (trans. Lattimore) 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Minolta X-7A](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/05/27/classic-camera-review-minolta-x-7a/): “Every artist was first an amateur.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Olympus OM-2n](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/05/06/classic-camera-review-olympus-om-2n/): “The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.” ― Suzy Kassem
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Pentax Super-Takumar 105mm f2.8](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/03/31/legacy-lens-review-pentax-super-takumar-105mm-f2-8/): “A great man is always willing to be little.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 
- [Finally! A Pentax 6x7](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/02/27/finally-a-pentax-6x7/): “Welcome, Lord Vader.  This is an unexpected pleasure.” -Moff Jerjerrod, Star Wars Episode VI, Return of the Jedi 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.8 QBM](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/02/20/legacy-lens-review-carl-zeiss-planar-50mm-f1-8-qbm/): Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate. -Patricia Briggs 
- [From the B-side:  Solar Chargers](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/01/29/from-the-b-side-solar-chargers/): “Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.”  -William Shakespeare, Richard III (1597)
- [Classic Camera Review:  Pentax Spotmatic ES II](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2024/01/17/classic-camera-review-pentax-spotmatic-es-ii/): “After all, the thing that looks most ordinary might be the thing that leads you to victory.” ― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library 
- [From the B-Side:  Gray, Black and White Cards](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/12/31/from-the-b-side-gray-black-and-white-cards/): “Best analytical skill is to find the simplest solution.” ― Sonal Takalkar 
- [Classic Camera Review: Nikon N90s](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/12/10/classic-camera-review-nikon-n90s/): “If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.” - Paul Arden 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Rolleiflex MX-EVS](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/11/03/classic-camera-review-rolleiflex-mx-evs/): “I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.” ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
- [From the B-Side:  Extension Tubes](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/09/13/from-the-b-side-extension-tubes/): “Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.” -Richie Norton 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Pentax Spotmatic F](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/09/04/classic-camera-review-pentax-spotmatic-f/): “Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.” ― Marius Vieth 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Olympus Zuiko 65-200mm F/4](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/08/19/legacy-lens-review-olympus-zuiko-65-200mm-f-4/): "Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."  -Yousuf Karsh 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 55mm f1.7](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/08/07/legacy-lens-review-minolta-mc-rokkor-pf-55mm-f1-7/): "I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music." -Joan Miró
- [Classic Camera Review:  Olympus OM-4](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/07/22/classic-camera-review-olympus-om-4/): "The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled." -Homer 
- [From the B-side:  The Cone of Shame](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/07/16/from-the-b-side-the-cone-of-shame/): “In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.” -Amit Kalantri 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Canon FTb QL](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/06/21/classic-camera-review-canon-ftb-ql/): Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. -Aaron Siskind 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Konica Hexanon AR 57mm f1.4 ](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/05/28/legacy-lens-review-konica-hexanon-ar-57mm-f1-4/): “How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Canon FDn 70-210mm f4 Zoom](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/05/01/legacy-lens-review-canon-fdn-70-210mm-f4-zoom/): An ordinary lens, if used only for making ordinary photographs.  
- [From the B-side:  The Humble Cable Release](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/04/17/from-the-b-side-the-humble-cable-release/): Underrated, but indispensable.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Tamron 28mm f2.5 Adaptall 2](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/03/30/legacy-lens-review-tamron-28mm-f2-5-adaptall-2/): “Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” ― Samuel Johnson, The Idler; Poems 
- [Legacy Lens Review: Vivitar Series 1 70-210 f3.5 Macro Zoom](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/03/17/legacy-lens-review-vivitar-series-1-70-210-f3-5-macro-zoom/): Sometimes price is a poor measure of value.  
- [Classic Camera Review:  Yashica TL-Super](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/03/08/classic-camera-review-yashica-tl-super/): Built like a brick outhouse, but infinitely more fun.
- [The Panatomic Disaster](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/02/23/the-panatomic-disaster/): "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"  -Winston Churchill
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Minolta MD Zoom 28-85mm f3.5-4.5](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/02/19/legacy-lens-review-minolta-md-zoom-28-85mm-f3-5-4-5/): “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” -Ayn Rand 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/02/04/legacy-lens-review-super-takumar-28mm-f3-5/): I hope I am in similar shape when I am that age.  Ok, maybe not heavy and round, but you get what I mean.  
- [From the B-Side:  Nikon Lens Scope Converter](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/01/30/from-the-b-side-nikon-lens-scope-converter/): Neither tool nor toy, it is a bit of both.  There really should be a word for that. 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Canon 50mm f1.4 FD and S.S.C.](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/01/21/legacy-lens-review-canon-50mm-f1-4-fd-and-s-s-c/): "Great battles are won with artillery." -Napoleon Bonaparte 
- [From the B-side:  Rubber Lens Hoods](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/01/21/from-the-b-side-rubber-lens-hoods/): ...Because I like my lenses.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Topcor 3.5cm f2.8](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/01/12/legacy-lens-review-topcor-3-5cm-f2-8/): “The horror…The horror.” - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now 
- [From the B-side:  The Soft Release Button](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2023/01/12/from-the-b-side-the-soft-release-button/): Another B-Side review of an accessory that you may or may not find useful.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Tower 51 Rangefinder](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/12/27/classic-camera-review-tower-51rangefinder/): A lofty name for a humble camera.
- [From the B-Side:  Mechanical Self-Timer](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/12/18/from-the-b-side-mechanical-self-timer/): “Oh, the Omega 13 device. We found that on the alien planet. We don’t know what it does, either.”  -Captain Jason Taggart, Galaxy Quest 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Nikkor ED 180mm f2.8 Ai-s](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/12/18/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-ed-180mm-f2-8-ai-s/): "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second." -Marc Riboud
- [From the B-side:  A New Category](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/12/18/from-the-b-side-a-new-category/): “What the heck is it, Edgar?”  -Beatrice, Men In Black 
- [Classic Camera Review:  Olympus OM-2S Program](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/12/08/classic-camera-review-olympus-om-2s-program/): "Back to Olympus, from the war's alarms, Return the shining bands of gods in arms; Some proud in triumph, some with rage on fire; And take their thrones around the ethereal sire."  Homer, The Iliad 
- [Fungus Among Us: Does It Matter?](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/11/30/fungus-among-us-does-it-matter/): “Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”   -Emily Dickinson
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Yashinon-DX 50mm f1.4](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/11/03/legacy-lens-review-yashinon-dx-50mm-f1-4/): A lens with flair…and flare. 
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Nikkor 50mm f2 Ai](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/10/26/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-50mm-f2-ai/): “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  — Leonardo da Vinci
- [Legacy Lens Review:  AF Nikkor 300mm f4](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/10/07/legacy-lens-review-af-nikkor-300mm-f4/): Yes, Mr. Wayne, it comes in black.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Canon AE-1 Program](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/09/01/classic-camera-review-canon-ae-1-program/): In a word, smooth.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Pentax K1000](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/08/20/classic-camera-review-pentax-k1000/): Another rescue puppy--but this one can hunt.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Vivitar 55mm f2.8 macro](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/08/07/legacy-lens-review-vivitar-55mm-f2-8-macro/): Seriously?  A Vivitar?
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f1.7](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/07/22/legacy-lens-review-konica-hexanon-ar-50mm-f1-7/): Better than I expected.
- [The Accidental Kit #2:  Olympus OM10](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/07/12/the-accidental-kit-2-olympus-om10/): "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?" -Bilbo Baggins
- [Classic Camera Review:  Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/06/23/classic-camera-review-zeiss-ikon-ikonta-521/): More fun with an old folder.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/05/26/legacy-lens-review-zoom-nikkor-35-135mm-f3-5-4-5-ais/): Not bad...Not great, but not bad.
- [A Fortunate Week for Critical Mass](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/05/20/a-fortunate-week-for-critical-mass/): ...Where it stops, nobody knows.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f4 Ai-s](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/04/24/legacy-lens-review-zoom-nikkor-80-20mm-f4-ai-s/): Yes, I know what I said about vintage zoom lenses…but this is an exception.  Another…exception.   
- [Classic Camera Review:  Kodak Retina IIIc](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/03/27/classic-camera-review-kodak-retina-iiic/): Funky foldable fun.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Nikkor 35-105mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/02/23/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-35-105mm-f3-5-4-5-ais/): I was pleasantly surprised.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 523/16](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2022/02/06/classic-camera-review-zeiss-ikon-ikonta-523-16/): A truly pocketable medium format folder.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Minolta 35-70mm f3.5](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/12/26/legacy-lens-review-minolta-35-70mm-f3-5/): Minolta really got it right with this one. 
- [Through a Pinhole:  The Noon 612](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/11/20/through-a-pinhole-the-noon-612/): The original mirrorless camera...
- [Classic Camera Review:  Nikkormat FTn](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/11/03/classic-camera-review-nikkormat-ftn/): Another great mid-century camera that will probably outlive me.
- [The Accidental Kit: Pentax Spotmatic SP](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/09/28/the-accidental-kit-pentax-spotmatic-sp/): “Spottie and the Super-taks” should be the name of a late 1980s cover band. 
- [In Defense of the Project](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/09/06/in-defense-of-the-project/): Photographic projects are fun and build skills.
- [Dark outside? Grab your camera!](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/08/16/dark-outside-grab-your-camera/): Leave the "Sunny 16" rule at home--you won't be needing it.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Nikon F3](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/08/05/classic-camera-review-nikon-f3/): Yes, there is a pattern forming…
- [Classic Camera Review:  Nikon F](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/07/07/classic-camera-review-nikon-f/): Let's call it the F.  You know, as in "Reflex". -Nippon Kogaku
- [Classic Camera Review:  Nikon FM2n](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/06/11/classic-camera-review-nikon-fm2n/): Every once in a while, the stars align and something goes right.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/05/30/legacy-lens-review-minolta-rokkor-x-45mm-f2/): An overlooked underdog.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Kodak Retina IIa](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/05/07/classic-camera-review-kodak-retina-iia/): More fun with another old folder...
- [Classic Camera Review:  Yashica Lynx 14E](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/05/03/368/): A classic rangefinder with an amazing lens.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiron 50mm f2](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/04/18/legacy-lens-review-meyer-optik-gorlitz-domiron-50mm-f2/): Surprise!  -The Universe
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Nikkor-H Auto 300mm f4.5 Ai-converted](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/04/10/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-h-auto-300mm-f4-5-ai-converted/): “Hello, Beastie.” -Captain Jack Sparrow
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Nikkor 200mm f4 Ai-s](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/03/16/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-200mm-f4-ais/): It looked a lot bigger on eBay...
- [Out and About With a Leica IIIc](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/02/27/out-and-about-with-a-leica-iiic/): My next guest needs no introduction.
- [Classic Camera Review:  Nikon F2](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/02/11/classic-camera-review-nikon-f2/): “Try not to use the words legendary or venerable…you’ll sound like a fanboy.”  "Fine".
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 58mm f1.4](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/01/29/legacy-lens-review-minolta-mc-rokkor-pf-58mm-f1-4/): My dear, need has nothing to do with it.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Nikkor 24mm f2.8 Ais](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/01/19/legacy-lens-review-nikkor-24mm-f2-8-ais/): Always in the bag.  Always.
- [Review:  Aoka Compact Tripod](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/01/12/review-aoka-compact-tripod/): Another great piece of gear.
- [Rollei 35:  A Modest Marvel](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2021/01/05/rollei-35-a-modest-marvel/): Size is a poor measure of potential.
- [Legacy Lens Review:  Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f1.4](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2020/12/23/legacy-lens-review-pentax-super-takumar-50mm-f1-4/): Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to put down the can of WD-40 and step away from the lens.  
- [Legacy Lens Review: Soligor 200mm f3.5 Prime](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2020/12/07/legacy-lens-review-soligor-200mm-f3-5-prime/): Surprise!  It's actually a Tokina.
- [Legacy Lenses and the Irony of Fate](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2020/12/04/legacy-lenses-and-the-irony-of-fate/): “Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.” -Morpheus
- [Camera Collecting and "Critical Mass"](https://thenoisyshutter.com/2020/12/03/camera-collecting-and-critical-mass/): ...and then there were many.

## Pages

- [Contact](https://thenoisyshutter.com/contact/): If any questions arise, please reach out to me at the following email address: thenoisyshutter@yahoo.com
- [About](https://thenoisyshutter.com/about/): I have kept a camera within reach since about 1987.  Initially, the purpose was to be able to document and share my experiences with my family while living abroad.  I found that I really enjoyed the challenge of photographing a scene in a way that accurately portrayed its beauty and communicated the awe that I felt at the time I photographed it.  Upon photographing something, one reduces the scene from three dimensions to two, shrinks it dramatically, freezes time, and removes all other sensory inputs. For a single image to still be able to evoke emotions, trigger memories, or inspire […]


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