If you look at a famous painting, you don't wonder what brand of brushes the now-decomposing artist used. Of course, if you go to a painters forum, you'll see passionate debates about which brand of brush to use.

Only a poor craftsperson blames their tools, but a good craftsperson will tend to get better results with better tools.

I'm primarily a film shooter, even though outside of photography, I'm quite "digital". My tastes in cameras are best described as somewhat idiosyncratic. I like to own reasonably priced cameras that can be made to produce excellent results.

Sodium Lit Lake
A picture of a little pond taken at night
The Stars, Like Rain
Star trails over a mountain ridge at night
Star Trails
Star trails, seen through the trees.
Candlestick Point and Hunters Point
Candlestick point, the 101, Bayview, and the old Hunters Point naval shipyard, in a stitched panorama.
Night Windmills
Windmills in southern California stopped at night
Sutro Tower at night
The Sutro Tower at night, complete with star trails.
Cutiful
Cutiful in a dress
Elea
A headshot of Elea
Elea
A headshot of Elea
Kimberly Marvel
Kimberly Marvel in a skirt on the rocks near a waterfall
Katherine
I had Katherine over the other day because I wanted to take some portraits of her now that I know how to take portraits (See, she was one of my first portrait victims as well)
Elea
A headshot of Elea
Kimberly Marvel
Kimberly Marvel in a skirt on the rocks near a waterfall
Star Trails II
Star trails, seen through the trees.
Under the Manhattan Beach pier
The columns holding up the Manhattan Beach pier, lit by sodium vapor lights.
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