Effective Efforts to be “Explored” on Flickr

If you are an amateur photographer you certainly have a showcase for your images somewhere. I've always wanted to do a "real life" exhibition, but can never seem to find the time to organize one. So for me it's got to be on the internet somehow. I like to post my images to some of...

How to take great landscape photos

This isn't going to be a technical guide of some sort, I just want to pass on some of my thoughts on the matter, which I think are important to many of us who aren't professionals. I think learning how to photograph will be more or less the same process for every ambitious amateur photographer...

Leica vs. Zeiss – Episode #1 – 2/50 vs. 2/45

Summicron-M 2/50 v4 vs. Summicron-R 2/50 v2 vs. Contax G Planar 2/45 Being a lensoholic for almost 15 years I have now graduated to Leica lenses, something I was sure I'd "never" do, a couple of years ago. Provocatively I just used the term graduated, but I don't intend to suggest, that I'm wise enough...

The Leica bug and a trip on Haymountain

The career of becoming an Altglasoholic is a long process, at least for me it was and still is. Usually you get into vintage lenses at a price point of about two beer crates, maybe you got an Auto Revuenon or Vivitar lens or a 50mm from Minolta or Canon. You try out many of...

Some of the finest fifties for fullframe

Introduction to a few review articles about some high end, mostly vintage, manual fullframe lenses, made by Canon, Konica, Leica, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and Zeiss If I had to own just one lens, it would likely be a fifty, mostly because it provides the best compromise for what I shoot, the optimum in versatility. Also,...

Photographing a less than pleasant spring

About the discomfort of shooting dragonflies with the Sony FE 200-600mm lens, the joy of using the Laowa 2.8/60 Ultra Macro and 4.5/11 Hyper wide lenses, the continuing love for the Contax VS 100-300 and what to do, when the weather hardly ever is nice This spring sucks, well at least it did until a...

Cinematic Autumn reloaded

I really enjoyed compiling the images for my 2020 cinematic acticle. In fact it was so much fun that I continued working on my recent images in the same way, particularly the ones from my trips to a mountain close to where I live. Going there allowed me to scratch one item of my long...

Vintage normal Zooms revisited

This article is an amendment to the one on "normal" Zooms here. Recently I followed a discussion on the qualities of the Minolta MDIII 3.5/35-70 on dpreview and got curious again: After my article I had often been suggested that the Minolta zoom lens would have been another worthy candidate for my original comparison. But...

It’s Greece! Again!

Being a family person I don't have the luxury to go on dedicated photo trips. Sadly. For a couple of years now I've never been part of the decision making nor the planning. I don't read tour guides or make any kind of plans for the trip. We travel as one big family pack (my...

Hamburg Reflections

My family and I just took a trip to Hamburg which is pretty much on the other side of Germany from where I live, 860 km or 530 miles away. Thanks to the German ICE-train travelling there is both comfortable and quite fast. It took us about 7 hours of travelling (plus one hour of...