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Radiators
Once a main form of energy transfer between steam and air (convection and infrared), the simplicity of the radiator (originally called a “hot box” by the inventor) was, at one time, embellished to be something of an art form (and create more surface area for effectiveness). For those exposed in the grand Victorian home, the…
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The Rawness of It All
After using the Bf for about 2.5 months exclusively in JPEG mode I decided it was time to try it with RAW files. With this kind of endeavor comes the need to critically evaluate my use of the software and its results. The magic with RAW is the software conversion and photographer’s processing. When making…
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The City That Never Sleeps
The Christmas holidays distort reality in New York City. For a short time, the visitors revel in the holiday spirit, the street performers cater to the holiday cheer and the windows on 5th Avenue are decorated to interest the tourist with a style that is all New York… Sigma Bf, Meike 55mm 1.8 Pro But…
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Nostalgic Word Salad
(October 19,2020) Chuck Klosterman, writer/author, published an essay about nostalgia in 2011 and re-published it in a collection of essays with a prologue written in 2017. In both works, he references music and photographs to make his argument: the experience of nostalgia has changed. If I interpret Klosterman correctly, these experiential changes were a result…
Amateur in photography. Amateur in life. 