Time to clear up the March backlog. Here is a collection of pictures I took back in March, but didn’t really fit into any previous posts. Some are of a tank in Jefferson. Some are with a toy plastic camera I bought for a few bucks. Other’s involve Bokeh making… Read More »I’m A Loser
As you know, I enjoy buying photography toys. Often not useful. But sometimes just fun to play with. Which if you aren’t getting any joy out of photography, you are doing it wrong. I bought an entirely plastic toy camera for about 10 bucks early in the year, but that… Read More »Chuzhao
I keep forgetting to announce that Teresa recently won a major award from Iowa State University. There was even a big article on her and everything. Have a read: The go-to teacher licensure resource in IowaSeptember 16, 2025 Teresa Kahler appreciates a good spreadsheet. When done well, it guards a… Read More »FE 135mm F1.8 GM
I recently spent a few bucks on a lens built out of an old disposable camera lens. It really is just the old disposable lens built into a lens cap. It is really cheap lens just meant for fun. The look of old disposable cameras has become popular in some… Read More »Disposable
I’ve tried to be better about writing about when I add new equipment to the arsenal. I haven’t been, but I’ve tried. I have a few lens I want to purchase in the coming year, if prices don’t skyrocket too much! Not just fun, gimmicky lenses, (although there are a… Read More »Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM Lens
Back in August I replaced the mid focal length lens of my Big 3. I was using a Tamron, but decided to replace it with a newer Sigma lens. I had already replaced my super wide of the Big 3 earlier in the year. I have yet to replace the… Read More »Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN Art Lens
Time to reveal the March image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: MARCH TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: 14-24 Sigma f/2.8 DG DN Art FOCAL LENGTH: 24mm APERTURE: f/8 EXPOSUER: 1/800 ISO: 400 DATE: June 12, 2024 I took this picture because I wanted a Bokeh picture to enter… Read More »Sweet 22: The Beginning
I recently needed to purchase a new ultra-wide zoom lens cause lately, I just am having all sorts of bad luck. So I picked up a new Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 DG DN Art Lens. Here is what it looks like: Here are the first pictures I took with it: So… Read More »Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 DG DN Art Lens
I recently purchase a new lens. The SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS. It filled the most glaring gap in my Sony E Mount lens arsenal. I was badly missing a long telephoto lens. My longest lens before purchasing this was my Tamron 70-180. Here are the specifications for the… Read More »SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports
Back in October I picked up a new Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD lens. I always meant to right and in depth piece on it, and well, here we are… almost seven months lately and I haven’t even gotten to look at the first set of pictures I took… Read More »Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD Lens
It has been a long time since I bought a new camera. Something like 3 years. I had circled early 2022 as the time to make the move as I am committed to Sony (as it is a family tradition by default)* and their mirrorless system (because it is the… Read More »New New
This is a collection of some more of the first pictures I took with the Tamron wide angle lens. some are at the courthouse. Some around the high bridges. Some around the Kate Shelley Museum: I do love that wide angle zoom lens! +++++++ This is your reminder that this… Read More »Wide Angling
This is the third and final batch of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85. These (most of them) pictures were taken at the sculpture garden in downtown Des Moines. I still might get into the technical details of the Lensbaby Velvet 85 some day, but today… Read More »Even More of that Velvet 85
The third new lens I purchased at the beginning of the year was a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Art Lens. I had a 50mm macro lens, but I needed a longer macro lens. Here are the first pictures I took with it: I might go into some technical… Read More »Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Art Lens
At the moment of the publishing of this journal entry, my Covid vaccine will be fully marinated. It will have been two weeks since my second shot. While life won’t return to normal exactly, I look forward to at least, maybe eating in a restaurant, or maybe having a movie… Read More »Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 Di III RXD Lens
I should point out that I messed up the coding in yesterday’s post. You should go to that post again to see the corrections in the code that allow you to see Kim’s and Shannon’s submissions. My Christmas present to my self was a Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 lens. I… Read More »Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8
When I got a refund for my Iowa State football season tickets back in August, I used the money and put it towards the purchase of a new lens. The biggest gap in my Sony mirrorless line up was what I would call a mid-telephoto lens. I don’t need a… Read More »Tamron 70-180 f/2.8
This post is mostly a catch-all of cleaning up some image collections taken back in August, that were either going to part of bigger journal entries that I have abandoned or just a few rando pictures taken here and there that I just want to clean up and get out… Read More »A Little Here, A Little There
I meant to publish a post on this subject a week or so ago, but the derecho put those plans on hold. I’ve meant to be more proactive about writing about when I get new equipment, even equipment that is fairly small or seemingly inconsequential to most people. Hopefully this… Read More »Red Fish, Blue Fish
Photography 139 subscriber and all around swell person Alisa Baker was recently featured on the podcast “The Upside Down Kingdom”. I encourage you to give it a listen, because she has some real interesting things to say: If you got this blog in an email, you will have to go… Read More »Singleness
I took Thursday and Friday off this week to watch basketball. Obviously there is no basketball right now. There is no basketball for at least a month and there is no NCAA Tournament this year at all. I wasn’t sure if I was going to still take these two days… Read More »I Don’t Know Why You’re Mean to Me