This is mainly a comparison of the 28-300 and the 24-120. I head read that the 28-300 is actually a sharper lens, so that would seem to obviate the need for even considering the 24-120. But let’s take a look. The first pair is a full photo comparison; the second pair is a full-res crop. [...]
Truc, the girl in the first photo, is our company cook. Without her, our team could not do the amazing things they do. Here are photos from a week of lunches. We are a happy lot.
The hotel complex where Nixon and Mao signed the Shanghai communique in 1972, the Jinjiang was built in the early 1900′s in the art deco style and renovated beautifully. I spent hours just walking around the room itself, as well as the hotel and ground…
A study of people outside the venerable Wing On department store on Shanghai’s Nanjing East Road – formerly named “Bubbling Well Road” during the British occupation of this quarter of the city.
Every once in a blue moon, we get three moons. I was fortunate to capture them from the top of the Space Needle. Maybe it was the champagne?
Summer came late to the Pacific Northwest – the warmest day of the year came in September. This was a nice vantage point, the top of the Space Needle at dusk…
Annual Labor Day celebration up here in the Pac Northwest…
It’s not just about music, but that’s how it started…
…for example, the water fountain…
A: You usually don’t.
See why it’s called the “Fastest Sport on Two Feet“…
Photo: Reynolds Yarbrough is the youngest goalie to ever start in a Washington State Lacrosse Championship game.
We spent the weekend at the family compound for the the annual “summer clean-up”. Here are a few photos from the weekend.
I’m just setting up this Promise Pegasus 4-drive array to my MacBook Air. It connected up immediately. The nice thing is, I can connect my non-Thunderbolt external display to the back of the Promise drive using a standard mini-display port adaptor (which fits in the Thunderbolt connector). That’s nice to know, since the TB cables are [...]
The Barn House Boys – Joe and Jermonne – host one of the premiere “vintage” markets in the country once each summer, in the “back yard” of their enchanting farm house in rural Battle Ground, Washington. People come from all over to see, buy, eat, drink, listen, play – and [...]
I love the internet. Got a $250 room for $55. This mansion, in the middle of the French concession of Shanghai, belonged to I.M. Pei’s father in the 1930′s and was recently converted into a boutique hotel. The only thing that was not completely 1930′s art deco was a modern toilet that did everything except [...]
I don’t get out during the days much, except on weekends. So most of my photos tend to be around “night street” life – which, in this city, is pretty much always in motion…
My favorite thing to do is just park myself on a street corner, listen to the cacophony, and watch the motorcycles stream by like schools of fish – hoping that the overhead power lines will not collapse onto my head…
This is how you advertise in Saigon – go around with [...]
This is why I visit Vietnam every several months. I run a small software development company. It’s a lot of work but we all sit together at the same table, in all senses of the word. We work together in a villa. We take our meals together. I sleep in the office, to save money [...]
Located in the middle of the French Quarter of Shanghai, this park is full of retirees from the generation that knew the opulence, decadence and culture – of the British and French colonial period.
I was lucky to see Yasin Farid during his first ever visit to the U.S.
Yasin is the country manager in Afghanistan for PARSA, an NGO that is run by Fran’s sister Marnie. They showed a short documentary made about their efforts to educate children in Afghanistan in the shadow of the Taliban (who don’t [...]
The last in my series of yoga animals. I promise. Xena did, however, appear earlier on Qamera, and the second photo here is a reprint…
The red eye from Saigon arrived at 7:00am, and I had about seven hours before the connecting flight was to leave for Seattle. The weather was beautiful. So I ditched the airport and took the train in to my favorite part of Tokyo, Shibuya – “crowded valley” – popularized by the film “Lost in Translation. Those Japanese [...]
Ho Van Hue – the main street near our office here in Saigon – is filled with wedding dress boutiques. Paradoxically, it also has a more-then-average number of casket shops. Still, from one person’s viewpoint, you’re never too young to start wishing….
More photos in my Vietnam Gallery…
There’s something about the garish neon, the smoke, and the piety of prayer. I’m not sure what, but there’s something…
I was invited to a Vietnamese wedding here in Saigon and was expecting to see a traditional wedding but it turned out to just be the reception dinner in a fancy entertainment complex. Still, I managed to get a photo of the proud mothers of the bride and groom…
We don’t have a lot of sun up here in the Pacific Northwest, but we do have some interesting combinations of weather and scenery. While the rest of the country is frozen or under snow, up here everything is verdant, lush, moist, spongy, misty – even sometimes mystical. And it somehow makes the morning coffee [...]
This is Zena. She is one of two temple cats that belong to the Seven Centers Yoga Arts down in Sedona. She and her sidekick Lionheart are quite a pair.
This looks like a Fedex ad. We had to do the drive, though, because my cousin George recommended it. And George knows every road in the American West. So we did it. And we were not disappointed. This is actually on I-70 west of Green River, just before it merges with I-15.
Moab is just a two-hour drive from the dizzying heights of Telluride. It’s a different world. View the entire “Rockies” road trip here. Click any picture to see full size (maximize your browser first).
Telluride lies several hundred miles southwest of Aspen – actually, it’s just over an hour’s drive from the Four Corners area where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona all touch. It has one foot in the desert country, and one foot in the San Juan Mountains, an offshoot of the Rockies that is millions of [...]
Somehow, black & white seemed more appropriate. More photos in my gallery http://qamera.smugmug.com/Trips/Rocky-Mountains-Circle
I had forgotten how peaceful and serene horses are. That is, most of the time…and when you’re not on their backs…
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Bremerton Ferry
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The 101
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oobleck
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if pigs could fly
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zen of ski
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14,000 ft up on the Pamir Plateau
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What's Going On?
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Something going on here...
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Mustagh Ata
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Courderoy
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Seoul in 6 hours
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Wedding Dress Street
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Buzkashi
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Temple Horse
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Morning in the PNW
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Las Vegas
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Pike Place Market
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All Hallowed's Eve
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A comparison of Nikon's 28-300 f/3.5~5.6, 24-120 f/4, and 16-35 f/4
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Sunrise, Taishan, 1980
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West Lake, China, 1979
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Gastronom, 1978
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Wings
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A Few Hours in Tokyo
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A Week in Saigon
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Jinjiang
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Wing On
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The Three Moons of Seattle
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Sky Dining
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Bumbershoot
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Old China
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Scanning Slides with the Epson V700
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Thunderbolt 102: As Advertised
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Q: How do you stop a point-blank shot at 95 mph?
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Forbidden City
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Harper Work Party
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Watching Time
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Thunderbolt 101
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Much Ado About Something...
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The First Commercial Billboard in China
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Barn House Market in Battle Ground
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Pei Mansion
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Things to do in Saigon during Rush Hour...
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Another Night in Saigon
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Saigon Sunday Streets
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Market People
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Rainy night in Saigon
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No City for Cars
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Happy Family
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Fuxing Park
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Things to do in Shanghai when you're retired...
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"Almost Mile Long" Parade
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Independance Day on Bainbridge Island
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First iPad Photo
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How I Use Lightroom - Part 1 - Basic File Stuff
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A Voice from Afghanistan
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Surprising restroom finds
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Happy Father's Day, Dad
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Three down, one to go
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Reach For The Sky
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Market People
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A day with daddy
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Lacrosse: Sometimes "Slow" is Fast
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Face-off Fashion
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Barn House Eggs
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Seabold Vintage Market
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Is this Lacrosse?
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Lax is here...
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Downward Cat
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Route 89a
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Sky Texture
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Downward Dogs
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Sedona
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My Generation
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A Change of Planes: A very short walk through Shibuya
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Wedding Dress Street
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Saigon Prayer
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Proud Mothers
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Over Siberia
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The Technology of Democratization
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Window to another world
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Images of Egypt
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Somewhere on the Karakorum Highway...
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Somewhere on the Silk Road...
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Human (vs) Nature
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Frigid
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Signs
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Sunday Morning
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Panama Limited
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The Lightning Bolt
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Magazine Street
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Just one more step...
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Telluride
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Rocky Mountain Circle
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Xena
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Desert Rain
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Across the Utah Desert
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No Aspens in Moab...
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Aspens of Telluride
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The Aspens of Aspen
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The Aspens of Vail
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Grand Tetons
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Yellowstone
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Important Message
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Livingston
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Horses in Montana
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Glacier: Morning
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East Glacier
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West Glacier
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The Palouse
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North Cascades Highway
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Seabold Vintage Market
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The Fall Sport
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Glaciers in the clouds
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Izzy & Joe
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End of Summer
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A walk through Shibuya
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Kamakura
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Tokyo Faces, and...
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Tokyo vignettes
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Harajuku
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Tokyo Trains
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The Manga is dead...
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Morning Market
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Sax 'N Art
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The Saigon Foodie
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Muine
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Night Ride
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Meet George Jetson
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A Visit to Nirvana
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Symphony Cacophony
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Trams and People
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To Victoria Peak
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Midlevels Escalator
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Hollywood Road
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Leaving Seattle
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Sunset on Alki
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iPhone food
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Meat Here
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Don't try this
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Wadi Rum
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Inventive Skylight
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Mendocino Light House
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Monks of Labrang
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Baguettes au Vietnam
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Frontier of the Empire
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Hazel in China
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Chinese grafitti
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Truth in Advertising
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Billy Was Here
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Meet the Pavement
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Runaway Train
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Tomahawk Twilight
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Things to do...
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Zurich Tram
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Artisans, Cortisans
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Obligatory Flower
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Sedona Vortex
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Family Fun
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Country Comfort
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Reflections
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Your ice
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Feather in cap
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Puget Sound
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Homecoming
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An unlikely couple
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Indian lawnmower
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Jaipur, India
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Tibetan Prayer Wheel
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Karakorum Highway
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Curious in Lhasa
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Fremont Troll
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Grand Canyon
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Jerash Jumper
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Hong Kong
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Negro Bill Canyon
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Saigon morning market
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Message from above
