Recent content by Petrochemist

Not from Sicily but it will make it visible for a few seconds longer. So it makes sense to check.:D

I've had some fairly extreme focal lengths available for decades - I think I got my first 500mm (a cheap f8 mirror lens) back in the late eighties, when everything I shot was FF, and have used that or similar (longer or faster mirrors & a few refractors) lenses on both MFT & APSC as well since...

The timings here are fairly similar, and I've got to drive across the country tomorrow, so I wont. I did shoot the end of the total lunar eclipse back in 2015, my results weren't up to much. I hope to do a better job sometime, but it wouldn't be with the moon so low in tky. As regards to tips...

Classic GP by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Here's a somewhat more static vessel - which missed it's chance on the 'related' thread MRI adventure by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

My dad gave me my first real camera (a Pentax ME for my 21st) & I guess the simpler camera models before hand. But I don't think of those as inheritance, just birthday presents. He had studied at art school & worked most of his life as an art director & sometimes worked as his own photographer...

IMGP0721 small by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr NB the Helter Skelter & foreground are on Clacton's pier :)

Had to look hard for that one, it's almost lost in the haze :)

Could do with some space to move into, but I'll share it anyway: hydroplane 2 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

sml P1300444 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Docklands by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

What's that? by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

MTB102 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Another feline stare with shallow DOF: DOF exercise by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

kittens at 12 hours by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr