by activelight | May 26, 2016 | Ancestral Puebloan, Colorado, Ruins |
Beginnings They came north. Others had lived there before, but none on the mountain. They found rich soil, game, a river, hard stone for tools, weapons and building, trees for wood beams in construction. Someone saw the moon rise between the stone gates when they were...
by activelight | May 19, 2016 | Equipment, Leica, Night Sky, Photographic physics, Travel |
Cameras without SLR mirrors aren’t new. From Oskar Barnack’s first Leica in 1913, photographers have wanted small, light cameras and lenses to reduce their load. Desert cottontail, Petroglyph National Monument Fuji X-E2 camera with Fuji M-adapter and Leitz...
by activelight | May 12, 2016 | Ancestral Puebloan, Colorado, Ruins, Travel |
Wetherill Discovery Cliff walls in southern Colorado hide the ruins everyone thinks of when they hear ‘Anasazi’. Richard Wetherill’s brother Al actually saw the Mesa Verde ruins first one day in 1887, but since it was late and he was tired, Al turned...
by activelight | May 6, 2016 | California, Equipment, How to shoot, New Mexico |
Early Morning… Rain Your alarm goes off at 4:30 am. You hop out of bed, excited to shoot in some great morning light – sunrise is in two hours, so you have plenty of time to get to the site and set up. But looking outside, it’s raining. Is it time to go back to...
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