Monthly Archives: March 2012

So what is in My “Kit?”

San Diego — We are getting ready for the Yosemite Field Trip to take place shortly after Spring Break.  And each time we start to get ready for a major trip the questions keeps coming up about my “kit.”  Books … Continue reading

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Taking a Wide (Angle) View and a Revisit re Tools

San Diego — Over the past weekend, as you know if you read the previous post, I took my Landscape Class students on their first major field trip, a 3-day trek into the Owens Valley, home of some truly interesting … Continue reading

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Back from Alabama Hills Field Trip

San Diego — The Landscape Class at City College’s Photo Program took its first major field trip to Owens Valley and the famed Alabama Hills this past Friday through Sunday.  This wild and bizarre terrain has been featured in a … Continue reading

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Nibbling on another Photographic Sacred Cow…”The Tool Does Not Matter”

I just caught myself parroting one of the current accepted wisdom comments that (and this was specific to photography but I think should be expanded) the equipment is irrelevant.  The normal line goes that it doesn’t really matter what one … Continue reading

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Lens Review 24mm TSE

San Diego — I have been toying with a Canon 24mm TSE lens, thinking it would be a good one to take on theLandscape Class’s Field Trip to Alabama Hills next weekend.  My impressions of the lens are that it … Continue reading

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Quiet time…

This first part of the semester has been fairly quiet for me with only one shooting trek so far.  THat was to Salton Sea via Anza Borrego State Park.  On the road down the Montezuma Grade is a wonderful rock … Continue reading

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