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Nikon Zfc and Ulanzi Falcam Foldable Half Cage

I have been using a SmallRig cage with my Nikon Z 50 when recording handheld videos. Unfortunately, the Nikon Z 50 doesn’t use external power via a USB cable unless the camera is off. The Nikon Z fc does, but no one made a cage for it. The Ulanzi Falcam F22 & F38 & F50 Quick Release Foldable Half Cage For Camera said it works with it and try it I did. Pico review: it works Short review: I…

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Random 2023 Photos

Various photos I took randomly in 2023. They are all mobile phone photos. The first is a box of bananas that looked like leaping dolphins. Sky Shots Street Art

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A Selection of Viking Forge 1/2400 Ship Miniatures

Here are a selection of photos of Viking Forge 1/2400 ship miniatures I picked up in the last year (or longer). All are Cold War/Modern. Unfortunately, Viking Forge doesn’t yet have photos of a number of them. The photos with multiple miniatures were focus stacked. I tried to get the white balance correct, but they may be off. German American

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Rockport 2023

Should have posted these photos from Rockport months ago, but better late than never. This photo is a panorama that would have been improved if I had taken a picture or two of the left of the wall and the ocean. Lesson learned. I took the daytime photos with my Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8. The nighttime photos I took with my manual focus Nikon Nikkor-S.C. 55mm f/1.8. The full album is:

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What I read so far in 2023

I set out to read a book a month … January was 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline. Interesting overview of the centuries before, during and after, but so much of it was “here are a bunch of reasons why this series of events occurred, but we don’t definitively know and, oh by the way, we should keep this in mind because modern society has become too complex.” 2000 was…

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Saturday: Fight back against government surveillance!

Reprinted from the Massachusetts Pirate Party. This year is the 22nd anniversary of the signing of the PATRIOT Act made possible by the 9/11 attacks. Since then, government and corporate surveillance continues to expand. We will join Pirates nationwide to push back on the effort to surveill our public spaces by mapping the surveillance cameras in East Boston. Join us! At noon on September 16th,…

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Northern Mockingbird

A Northern Mockingbird visited our neighborhood. I was able to get several good photographs and one good video. Propping your lens on a car is a helpful technique for maintaining stability with a telephoto lens. A video of the bird singing. Did I mention that placing your lens on the top of a car really stabilizes the telephoto lenses. An external microphone would have helped here too, but I…

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Belated goodbye to gak8346

Belated goodbye to gak8346

Last year, I learned that gak8346, the painter of most of my modern warship miniatures, died. His name was Garry Allan Kinsey. We only chatted via eBay messages or blog comments, but he was always personable and dedicated to his craft and his fans/customers. Reading his obituary, he sounds like a modeler I and many others wished we could meet in person. You can find more about him in his…

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Into the Woods

I attended the Somerville Highlander Theater‘s performance of Into the Woods in early December. As is my custom, I photographed the performance. I decided to try something different and photographed it with an anamorphic lens so I could get more of the actors and stage. You can tell from the occasional lens flares. I cropped only a few of the images. A big congratulations for the crew, cast and…

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Don't Get the Glorich EN-EL25 Power Adapter

Don’t Get the Glorich EN-EL25 Power Adapter

This post has been sitting here and since I don’t have another post ready, I will just publish it. I occasionally live stream. My Nikon Z 50 allows me to turn off sleep mode, but changing batteries is a pain when live streaming. Unfortunately, Nikon decided that the Z 50’s USB port can only charge the battery, not power the camera. Unlike the Z 6/7 (which uses the D850 battery), there is no…

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2022 Trans Resistance March

2022 Trans Resistance March

Attended this year’s Trans Resistance March in Roxbury with the Mass. Pirates contingent. Included are photos I took of or after it. Some crowd shots: https://twitter.com/masspirates/status/1540733472557322241?s=20&t=S4mLPaYeBYvsWKJIAVweCQ Our waving Trans/Jolly Roger flags were popular: https://twitter.com/masspirates/status/1540733631261356032?s=20&t=S4mLPaYeBYvsWKJIAVweCQ I was joined by…

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Elf Land

The photos of Elf Land, a neighborhood space in a to-be developed lot in Somerville, I have seen tended to be at human level and not elf level. As such they didn’t do Elf Land justice. Before the big storm in January I set out to change that. Here is the result: You can find all of the photos at this album:

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May 6th, 2022 Pro-Choice Rally

May 6th, 2022 Pro-Choice Rally

The Boston branch of the Party of Socialism and Liberation held a pro-Choice rally Friday. My wife and I joined it. It was well attended: The signs were great: Some interesting photographic opportunities presented themselves: You can find the rest at this album:

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Singing robin

I recorded a brief video of a robin singing in my backyard. I have a bunch of photo edits to post. Hopefully soon.

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Birds and the Moon

Birds and the Moon

I had the Sigma 150-600mm Sport lens so I found other uses for it. It was probably excessive to use it photographing birds in the backyard … … but I got many good photographs of the moon that I hope to try focus stacking. In retrospect, since I used a tripod, I should have used a slower shutter speed. One unfocus stacked image:

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Warship Wednesday: DDGs LBJ & Inouye

Warship Wednesday: DDGs LBJ & Inouye

Over the summer I planned to head up to Bath, Maine to photograph the USS Lyndon B. Johnson. I planned to take the Maine Maritime Museum’s Shipyards & Lighthouses Cruise just as I had when photographing the USS Monsoor. Due to the pandemic that was not possible, so I instead rented the Sigma 150-600mm Sport lens from Hunt’s Photo Video. My son and I drove up and tried finding locations to…

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Worcester Walkabout

Back in October I walked around Worcester mapping surveillance cameras at a Pirate Party outing. Got a chance to photograph some of the murals and other sights in downtown Worcester.