the last word

The spirit may move me to comment on one or two narrow aspects of my photographic journey from Sitka to Seattle, but I think it’s time for me to summarize my experiences. If you want to start this report from the beginning, look here. A little context: as I said at the outset, I eliminated… [Read More]

We stopped at some fishing villages, and there were  interesting things to photograph.                

This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. Rather than post more pretty pictures from the Alaska trip today, I thought that I’d show some things that might be useful to photographers planning something similar. Here’s an inflatable (which I’ll call a Zodiac, even though,… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. I made six or seven thousand exposures on the trip. Close to 90% of those were destined to be components of panoramas that I planned to stitch once I got back home. I made images for panoramas… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. I ended up using ISO 100 and ISO 800 for virtually all my exposures on the Alaska trip. Since the a7RII is fairly ISOless from ISO 100 through ISO 500, there is little reason to use ISO… [Read More]