Skool Photo Community JULY Challenge: SILHOUETTE

 

Canon 6D, 50 mm, ISO 400, f/16, 1 s. Bear suspended from doorway with fishing line. 

Converted to BW in LRc. 

Skool Photo Community JUNE Challenge: MOTION

Canon 6D with 24 mm, ISO 100, f/6.3, 1/15 s. Camera pan L-R as Pluto runs after the ball.

Minor global adjustments in LRc.

 

No Kings 3/28/26

Great turnout for the No Kings protest in Johnson City in deeply red Tennessee. Maybe the perfect weather had something to do with it, or a lot of people have realized that we are losing the fight for democracy. 

This was somewhat of an experiment. I used my Fuji X100F, a camera I purchased in 2019 and have not used very much. So, of course, when I arrived at the protest I fumbled with settings despite going over everything the night before (in hindsight I should have given myself more time). My fingers kept hitting buttons while shooting and I would lift the camera to my eye to see I was in some sort of mystery mode.  

I used my iPhone 16 pro for this one. I thought the battery in the Fuji was dead. The iPhone Portrait mode is pretty incredible. 

Joe here was a navigator in a B52 during the Vietnam War. He was quick to tell me he never set foot in Vietnam. 

I don’t think there is one photographer out there who could pass up the wall of an old building. 

Valerie and her sister, Nancy.