Today I took my daughter to Zenkoji Temple located in Nagano city Japan. It was a rather cold morning today, but we were both excited to get out and walk around the temple grounds. Today there seemed to more tourists arriving than usual, so it actually turned out to be a rather busy […]

Lab Color is something I’ve been experimenting with. This photo may not be a good example, but I thought I would mention the fact that Lab color was used. This shot was very difficult because it was taken during a very very sunny high contrast day. Looking back it probably was not […]

Color is something that I’m lately very fond of with regards to digital photography. In this shot of my youngest daughter Sasha, I worked with trying to bring the red out while at the same time maximizing the color of the wooden bench. This photograph was taken with the Nikon D200 and 17-55mm […]

This is a photo I took today of my 3 year old daughter Aily. I used the Nikon D200 and the 70-200VR zoom lense. The original photo was edited in Photoshop to apply some color and cross processing that I like to do on my photos at times. I thought this one […]

I`ve had a couple of questions about what I thought the difference was between the D80 and the D200, or perhaps I should say why I chose the D200 over the D80.
First, I should say that I started out with a Nikon D70s before I looked at any other camera in the Nikon […]

I forgot to mention I ordered the Nikon AFS 300mm f/4 lense back in August that has been wonderful to shoot with. I was a little worried about this lense because I wanted something I could hand hold and not have to use a tripod. Packing around and using a tripod in some […]

Here’s a list of some new gear I’ve acquired over the past few months during my dry spell on this blog.
A couple of new lenses I picked up are the Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8 Fish Eye lense and the Nikon 180mm f/2.8 AF lense both new. These two lenses are really a lot […]

Not to long ago I received an email from a reader and for some reason my reply did not get delivered. So I thought I would post their question here and do my best to answer in the hopes they will visit my blog again in the future. Here’s the email:
Dear Jim,
I am […]

Trying to find support for Yervant’s Page Gallery is like finding a needle in a haystack. It takes weeks to get a reply from the Yervant website and the only support forum I know is at DWF which is for exclusive photographers only. First I think that’s pretty crazy to have a support […]

I`d like to start off by making a slight amendment to my comments in my previous post about how great Pixel Creator Post was.  I still agree with my comments, but I have now discovered one major flaw or shall I say annoyance with Pixel Creator Pro.  I really find the registration system very disturbing […]