Flower Macros

Something I overheard recently:
“When I took this photo I was about an inch away from the flower.”
Congratulations, you’ve just taken a flower macro. Unless that flower was in the middle of an active mine field, it is still going to be a redundant flower macro that will swiftly be forgotten no matter how close you [...]

Before I was a photographer, I was a zombie portraitist.

Before I was a photographer I had a strange artistic hobby of drawing portraits of zombies. This was in the early 90s when I was between eleven and fourteen years od age, and was sparked after catching the Tom Savini remake of Night of the Living Dead on Cinemax late one night.
I made a [...]

Visitor Feedback Day

I made a few minor changes to the site today in response to some visitor feedback I've received lately. This post is just a notification of these changes.
1. Individual gallery pages now contain a grid of thumbnails showing every image in it. Image you've previously have viewed will be marked by an orange underline.

2. [...]

Olympus XA2 – Infrared Blackout Edition

Modifying an Olympus XA2 for infrared flash use.

What are you shooting?

Can asking the questions "What are you shooting" reveal the type of photographer that someone is?

Ego Boost

Something that has never happened to me before happened tonight.
I was talking to a stranger, they noticed my camera and asked if I was a photographer. I said I was and there was a bit of small talk. eventually I pulled out one of my cards and handed it to her.
"Oh! You're K. Praslowicz. [...]

The Legacy Pro - Fuji Film Connection

Are the Legacy Pro films really rebranded Fuji films? I've got a smoking gun.