olympus

a building in a suburban industrial park...

Dynamic contrasting, contrast and structure boost, custom lens vignette, burn edges and sepia toning in Silver Efex.

Dead tractor on an abandoned farm.

Abandoned truck on a ridge, found along a county road today on the way home today.

Saturday night special @ Chet's Lakeside in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota - "Swedish" recipe fried chicken, stuffed shrimp, and mashed potatos/gravy. Oh yeah, and a trip to the salad bar (hello iceberg lettuce and thousand island dressing!). My mother-in-law's family has been coming...

Everything but the kitchen sink? Found at my mother-in-law's old family farm today.

Light above my father-in-law's fish cleaning table. It was opening of fishing season today, but Lake Carlos was quiet. It is deeper and colder than nearby lakes and so, apparently, the walleye and northern pikes are not biting here.

(#37 extra credit, which i definitely am going to need!) Lunch hour bike ride through the city park and I saw this sign at the archery range. Next challenge, I will have to learn archery and then do something here more advanced like launching a camera body, catching flaming arrows (with...

the public beach at a small lake in a nearby city park... even though we had a unseasonably warm winter, spring looks back to normal and it will be a few weeks before the summer activities really begin.

Fire Engine Red =D (cropped)

A crosswalk sign on a very rural road in Wisconsin.

10 PM in Minneapolis for the Yann Tiersen show at First Avenue.

I drove by an abandoned school bus I had captured one and thought it would make a decent "time has passed." I did almost get a tick for the cause... found a little deer tick crawling up my pants after getting back to the car.

Abandoned farmhouse in Western Wisconsin small dairy country. Captured with E-M5 and Panasonic-Leica 25mm lens.

A young Blackbird doesn't seem so keen on berries as a diet

A newly fledged young Blackbird

A newly fledged Blackbird shows interest in the male birds beak full of worms

(Oops... uploaded this initally to my own gallery) Yesterday I presented the interior of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. This is a photograph of the exterior of the Beinecke as seen from Commons. The photograph is an extension of the idea I have been pursuing wherein the...

Well, I've done quite a few gothic interiors and portals; I will return to those shortly, but here is some modern architecture. On Day 1 I showed the exterior of the Malone Center. I mentioned in the description that the "front" of the building "features a sweeping glass...

Linsly-Chittenden Hall was originally two separate buildings that served as annexes for the old University Library (then located in Dwight Hall). Today, Linsly is a recitation hall and faculty office building for the English Department and Chittenden is a classroom building. Chittenden Hall...

Continuing the theme of Gothic portals apparently... this is taken inside the Trumbull College Master's House gate. Trumbull College is one of twelve undergraduate residential colleges of Yale University. The college is named for Jonathan Trumbull, the last governor of the Colony of...

This photo is from Sterling Memorial Library, on the first floor, in a section called "Cloisters." The Cloisters is a long hallway lined with these windows, and you can see that it goes off to the left here. This is from a hallway off of Cloisters that leads to the Irving S. Gilmore...

David S. Ingalls Rink shot at twilight tonight. Designed by architect Eero Saarinen and built between 1953 and 1958 for Yale University, it is commonly referred to as The Whale due to its appearance. The building was constructed for $1.5 million, which was double its original cost estimate...

Continuing the sacred theme... I've tried this shot several times. Neither my Pentax K10D nor the K-x I briefly owned rendered acceptable results. Yet my E-PL3 made quick work of this. I would like to have captured the whole door, but this perspective is taken from a very narrow alley...

The students are not around this week at Yale, so I thought I'd grab this opportunity to shoot interiors this week. Besides it is pretty cold and it's nice to settle into this kind of contemplative shooting indoors. This is Dwight Memorial Chapel, Yale University, Old Campus. Originally...

This is a walkway outside of Kroon Hall, home of the Yale University Forestry Department. Locally-based Centerbrook Architects & Planners acted as the Executive Architects in collaboration with Design Architects, Hopkins Architects of London and an all-star team of consultants. The building...

My first post, its part of an upcoming article on street photography realizations. Cheers, Jorge

I mistakenly added this to my personal gallery instead of SIJ; this is my entry for January 2. Continuing the theme of architecture generally, and further the idea of showing two buildings in one photograph, this is a shot of Sterling Tower from outside the Rotunda of Woolsey Hall. Woolsey...

A bit of an introduction. A year ago I shot a series of architectural studies at Yale University. In the interim I have happened upon Mu 4/3 and have decided to try to recreate a similar set of studies in this format. This is to satisfy a desire to learn these cameras and format as well as to...

About ten years apart Olympus introduced two mighty compacts, that the world should have paid attention to: first the mighty C-8080, with magnesium body, an articulated display, a high-resolution EVF, a superb grip, and a lot of other goodies. But sales were disappointing, the camera was...

The main problem with the K-5 (right) is size (although much smaller than many other DSLRs). The Olympus XZ-1 is excellent in bad lighting, but has a short zoom. The Sony HX9V is one of the best video cameras around, and has a decent zoom as well, but it doesn't like dusk at all! The...

Another mid air shot

An attempt at the levitation style photography.

My littlest daughter enjoying a static moment!Taken on Olympus E-P3 and M.Zuiko 40-150 cheapo kit zoom lens. ISO 200, 1/320 sec @ f5.2, 114mm focal length. Tack sharp, nice bokeh IMHO.

From the hip walking-by shot - the screen on the Pen E-P3 is pretty good at oblique angles to still see what is going on.

Heavily cropped view that accentuates the balance and horizontalness (!!!) of the scene. Taken on a foggy morning with 40-150 M.Zuiko at full power.

Yes, the E-P3 is small, but not riduculously so and the kit zoom is nicely balances the body.

From a walk along a local beach at sunset

Two of my favourite compact cameras in one shot!