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Photographing football means getting very close to the athletes, cheer squad, managers, and the like. My wife and I had photographed this one high school for 8 years and the kids knew us well. They always would signal us if they wanted a picture and here is some of what we got. I will also...

I totally agree but to this ols Kansan, the traffic on the highways was more than I would want to do. We ended up using the toll express way to get some traffic separation.

On November 6th of this year, my wife would have celebrated another year of life, but instead, we celebrated what was her life in a celebration of life for her. It was held at the gymnasium of the school she loved and was injured while covering a game a couple of months before. Most of the...

My daughter and my son-in-law decided that I would spend a couple of weeks with them for Thanksgiving. They knew that with my wife just passing that a holiday alone was not to be. They drove to pick me and my three dogs up and brought me to their home in Plano, Texas. Yesterday, they took me...

I own a D750 and have used it with both AFS and D lenses. I don't own a lot of Nikon mount lenses now having sold most of them but I could see only a tiny bit faster focus with AFS. I now have a Sigma AFS 12-24mm, a Sigma 180 3.5 macro, a very old 70-210 f 4 Nikon, a 50mm 1.8 D, and a couple...

I have only one binocular. It needs an eyepiece cup and it is not the brightest but I would not think of getting rid of it. The Binocular is a desert camoflaged Zeiss German army pair from the North Africa campaign and my dad bought? (appropriated) it from his fighting in Sicily, How it...

I admit that I have a problem. I am thinking about selling much of my wife's gear and I find a UsedPhotoPro listing for a very old Nikon 70-210mm f4 for 53.00 with 5% off so I clicked to buy this lens for the sum of $57.00 including tax. It arrived today and works perfectly on my Nikon...

I think I will get estimates on a lot of gear. In addition to the OM-1, I will list a EM-1ii, EM-10, Panasonic DMC-G5, a very old and little used Oly EPL-1, 25mm 1.7Panasonic, 60mm 2.8 Sigma,, 50MM 1.8 NIKON AF,and maybe some older Nikon bodies such as D2xs. It seems that the realization of...

Some of you know that my wife had an accident while shooting a football game when she was knocked into a concrete apron when two players in pursuit knocked her down. She was using her Olympus OM-D Em1x with the 40-150mm 2.8 with 1.4x teleconverter. The force of the collision broke the 40-150...

Sometimes I wonder about the transition from one image to another and how it relates to the one above. :)

I have probably 50 old film cameras. I mean very old ones including Zeiss Ikon floders brought from Germany by my dad after WWII, Kodaks, Bosley B2, Argus, Contax, Kiev, Yashica, and others but they are in a cabinet. I worked as a sales rep for commercial clients for the old Nikon importer...

I did not buy this computer but I inherited it from my wife who had just got it. A desktop supercharged AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX, 32GB RAM, 2 TB SSD, and another 2TB SSD external drive. It is much faster than the Ryzen 5 that I was using as my desktop. I am still trying to decide which of the many...

I just received from Amazon an iShoot tripod mount ring lens collar for my Fujifilm 55-200mm lens. It also fits the 70-300 lens. It is well made and fits with the battery grip attached (just barely), No vertical shots but it is nice for horizontal shots. $44.99.

looks like a keeper

One more post. I was amazed that this story had gone viral. It was on the national TV show, Inside Edition and People Magazine posted a story on their internet page. This is the Bar Association tribute at our annual meeting and a show for Judges and attorneys all over the State. Over 800...

Friday nights during the fall have meant football. Even without my shooting partner, my wife, I went and did the best I could. I hope she would be proud of my effort. She always was a better photographer!

I hauled out my old and trusty Nikon D2x with the Sigma 180 3.5 macro lens and waited to find a shot of a bee on the flower,

I apologize for posting so much about this tragic accident but my memory of her is absolutely burned into my soul. She was taken off life support at around 4 pm last Friday and we went to the football game as a family. A volunteer took this picture of me and a football player who was one of her...

I want to thank all on this forum for your thoughts and wishes. It is hard but I have been amazed at the outpouring of love and respect. I have had over 4000 messages on Facebook. My Bar Association is honoring her with a program. Photographers from all over the world have sent their...

I was on the sidelines tonight with her favorite camera, Olympus EM-1X. Even though the lighting was good and I was using a monopod, the steadiness of her hand was not what I had. My entire family of two daughters, her family of daughter and son, my grandson, and many friends were on the...

The l; ink outside the paywall to the Post article is...

On Monday, my sweet wife Linda Gregory was on the field as always photographing "her boys" at Northwest High School in their football actions as she has done for the past 9 years. She was hit trying to get out of the way by two football players in full gear and she was knocked to the ground and...

Unfortunately, the Nikon 80-200mm 2.8 I bought for a rock-bottom price turned out to be a dud. It did not zoom smoothly, had a non-functioning focus limiter but seemed to be okay at close range. It was badly decentered and would not focus at longer distances. I contacted the seller, a big...

All these pictures of motorcycles, remind me of my days of wanting to experience the motorcycle mystique. I bought a Harley Sportster but did not like it because of the exhaust sound it made so I traded for a new Suzuki 1100 Katana. The most uncomfortable bike I ever rode on but faster than a...

I got to stay home and watch the dogs. Truth be told, I could not stay up that late. She got home around 1:00 am.

I have a Viltrox 23mm 1.4, 56mm 1.4, and 85mm 1.8, and love them all.

Corvinus Castle, Hunedoara, Romania

Another shot with the Olympus EM-10 with the old Vivitar 75-150mm 3.8 lens.

It never fails to amaze me the complete stupidity of some people around dangerous wild animals. I have seen a father take his 5-year-old son on a trip with the final act being mayhem. We were in Grand Teton and a bison bull was showing signs of irritation by pawing at the ground. This guy was...

And now with the Nikon D750.

Here is a shot with the very inexpensive Nikon 80-200 2.8 Push/Pull lens on the Nikon D2X.

I really miss the trips to Rocky Mountain National Park. We would go at least twice a year---early summer and late fall. We would go during the snow melt time or mud season and then again for the elk mating season. We were very fortunate to have been trained in the way of letting the animals...

I guess they could be useful but to be totally honest, I feel silly with the phone. Look like every tourist on vacation. :)

I know my phone, a Samsung, has a pretty sophisticated camera but I have never used it. Oops, used it once to test it but have no desire to use a cellphone camera.

I bought an Audi 4000 Coupe with 5 cylinder engine when it was brand new. It was a remarkable car in not what it was but where it went. I owned a condo in Fraser, Colorado so at least twice a year and sometimes more often, it hauled me, my wife, two kids, ski equipment, photo equipment, and...

I downloaded ART and after I found out how to save the edits, I like it. It takes care of Nikon raw files, Olympus raw files, and Fuji RAF files. I think I will like it for editing some of my images with all these different formats. My wife downloaded it and will use it for her light painting...

My bargain 80-200 2.8 Nikon Zoom came yesterday. It has the push-pull zoom and the zoom is a little tight but okay. The focus limiter seems to be stuck on full focus. I can live with these defects for the price I bought the lens. The pictures were sharp and the focus was accurate.

I bought a well-used Nikon 80-200mm 2.8 for a price I never expected. It is the older push/pull Zoom which I owned many years ago. I replaced it with the 80-200 2.8 two-touch lens but in a fit of hysteria, I sold it. I still have a Nikon D750 and D2x along with a Fujifilm S3 Pro so it might...

Hard to beat the 80-200 2.8 for the price. My favorite older Nikon lenses were: 1. 70-200 2.8 VR, 2. 80-200 2.8, 3. 180mm 2.8 edif, 85mm 1.8 (any iteration), 4. 50mm 1.4, 24mm 2.8, and 5. 300mm 4.

It looks like an old American Hudson that has been customized.

Here my wife is telling the owner of the Corvette what she is going to do. Later, she came to watch over my shoulder as Linda worked with the lights in small sections and she was amazed at all the work to get the image right. Linda wears black so she will not show up in the photos.

My wife light-painted the home, the car, and the motorcycle of this local TV personality. I was the assistant that sat with her tablet and remotely recorded the images on her OM-1 when she said start and closed the image when she yelled stop. She is still working on piecing together all the...

W. Eugene Smith was born and raised in my hometown. He graduated from the same high school I graduated from albeit a little earlier. He was a sports editor as was I for the school newspaper and photographed sports all over town. He is fondly remembered here. I first saw his photos of Minimata...

This was my all-time favorite film camera. I preferred it over the F5.

Another Alien Bee B800 flash and another one received from Buff's repair. Unfortunately, it looks like the repaired one will have to go back since it failed to work at one of Linda's photoshoots of bank executives. In addition, she got a new computer with Ryzen 9 processors, 32GB ram, 2TB SSD...

I always hated the monthly subscription software and it took a long time for me to cough up the 10.00 per month for Adobe Creative Suite. I tried Luminar but every time it rained they had an upgrade that was, of course, not included in the initial price. Then they started changing the names of...