Further foliage and on Museums

October 30, 2009 by azazel1024

Further foliage fotos for felicitous fans. Sorry, I just felt like alliterating. I have a bunch more pictures of fall foliage in the Potapsco state park as well as some pictures from an outing to DC with the family.

Potapsco State Park

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4                               Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

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Sigma 21-35mm f/3.5-4.2              Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

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Tamron 28mm f/2.5

Western Howard County

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Tamron 28mm f/2.5

Western Howard County and on the DC Metro

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4                              Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

Air and Space Museum

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Sigma 28mm f/1.8

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Sigma 28mm f/1.8                              Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

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Sigma 28mm f/1.8

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

Of Apples, Renfest, Pumpkins and Foliage

October 26, 2009 by azazel1024

Fall is finally here in a big way. This means many things, Apple picking, Renaissance Festival, Pumpkin picking and fall foliage. Many pictures from all these activities.

The first was the Maryland Renfest.

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

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Tamron 28mm f/2.5

Stage play

Zuiko 135mm f/3.5

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

Then apple and pumpkin picking.

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

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Sigma 24mm f/2.8

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Zuiko 135mm f/3.5

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

Finally a little fall foliage. Sadly Potapsco State park was a bit beyond peak, but there are many other great fall pictures to come in the next few days.

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Tamron 28mm f/2.5

Dressed to Kill

October 14, 2009 by azazel1024

I finally finished scanning all of the pictures from the wedding over Labor day and got that DVD off to my wife’s cousin. For now here is a single picture from that weekend, though not from the wedding. He is getting so big!

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

Alive and well

October 9, 2009 by azazel1024

Its been a long time since I’ve posted. Still alive and well, but I’ve spent the last 6 weeks scanning pictures from the Hindu ceremony of my wife’s cousin’s wedding. It turned out great and it was a lot of fun to do the photography for. A good learning experience as well. I’ll have some pictures up from it in the next week or two. Its back to doing photography for myself now and I’ll have new pictures, and tales, up soon. Until then I have a review of the Lowepro Mini AW bag and Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 lens up.

New lens

August 14, 2009 by azazel1024

Just got a new lens, Sigma 21-35mm f/3.5-4.2. On the cheap as well, $40. So far impressions mixed. It is wide and it is relatively small, though with a 77mm filter thread it isn’t that small (it is pretty short though). There is a tiny amount of barrel sloop side to side, but otherwise pretty solid feeling. I think I prefer 2 touch zooms, at least at the wider focal lengths, but the push pull design isn’t to bad. More impressions and pictures later.

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San Diego trip overview

August 5, 2009 by azazel1024

I finally got everything scanned from my trip and I have the overview up along with lots and lots of pictures from my trip.

Here it is, my San Diego trip, now with more Cowbell.

http://omexperience.wordpress.com/travels/san-diego-2009/

San Diego sneak peak

July 30, 2009 by azazel1024

A few more pictures from San Diego. Half a roll left to scan.

Knarled Tree

Sigma 24mm f/2.8

Flowers

Sigma 50mm f/2.8 macro

Beach

Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8

Erosion

Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8

Back from San Diego

July 21, 2009 by azazel1024

I am back from my business trip to San Diego. Its going to take me awhile to get all of the pictures scanned. I took 3 rolls total, but I doubt I’ll be done scanning till next week. I also have finished scanning the pictures from the July 4th trip to the beach. So here is a mix of both of those. I’ll write up a full overview of my trip once I am done scanning the pictures. Till then here are some of the pictures. Something I am noticing now is that my Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 seems to have a bad astigmatism in the upper left corner (might be part of the reason why it seems to be hard to focus. For a variety of reasons I am thinking this is my sample, not the 28-70 in general). I’ll have to look over some more scans to see if this is actually the case or not.

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Zuiko 50mm f/1.8

Sandy Jack

Zuiko 50mm f/1.8

Truck and chair

Zuiko 50mm f/1.8

These are pictures from San Diego, Balboa Park.

Plaza of Balboa

Sigma 24mm f/2.8

Museum of Man

Sigma 24mm f/2.8

Botanical Gardens

Sigma 24mm f/2.8

Orchid

Sigma 50mm f/2.8 macro

Off to San Diego

July 13, 2009 by azazel1024

I am off to San Diego for work. I’ll be back Friday night. My camera is coming along. I am taking my OM-1, Sigma 28-70/2.8, Sigma 24/2.8, Sigma 50/2.8 macro and Vivtar 285hv for this trip. I’ve scanned a bunch of pictures from being at the beach the other weekend along with some others from the last month. Most will have to wait until I get back. Until then here are a few of them.

Civil War Bullet

Sigma 50mm f/2.8 macro

Clouds

Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

Sand Fort 4

Zuiko 50mm f/1.8

10,000 hits

June 22, 2009 by azazel1024

It might not mean much to many people, but over the weekend my blog reached 10,000 hits. A heck of a lot more people then I ever thought my blog would reach and only a little over a year since I started it.