Welcome

For those who know me, yes, this is a second blog. The first really had no purpose and quickly lost steam. This one has a purpose, mainly because I seem to have a purposeful hobby now - Photography.

We'll straighten this out from the start: I'm not a professional, nor do I consider my self a "prosumer" level photographer either. Entry level amateur is the best description. I know my way around a camera and most of the time can get the "look" I want in a photo. I do have so much more to learn and look forward to each day that I can use my camera.

My weapon of choice for capturing that moment in time is a Pentax K10D 10 megapixel digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera. I have two new lenses at my disposal: a 16-45mm f/4 wide angle and a 50-200mm f/4. At this time the camera says it's shutter has moved just over 4000 times. That's a lot of practicing;-)

On top of the new lenses I also have access to some older Super Takumar M42 screw mount prime lenses that I use on my K10D via a mount adapter. Those lenses belong to my lovely wife as well as her Pentax Spotmatic II film SLR. The Super Takumar lenses are 28mm f/3.5 wide angle, 55mm f/1.8 and 135mm f/3.5. On loan from my father in law is a 400mm prime with the name "N.P.S" on it. Not sure about the origins of the lens, but it is, as I said, 400mm f/5.6. Great for wildlife.

I am an avid user of Photoshop and I do believe in post processing photos. My Photoshop knowledge is all either self taught or info gathered from assorted websites. Some of my photos are heavily post processed while others don't have anything done to them. I'll let you know which way the photos go when I post them here.

Which brings me to the purpose of this blog. I can't showcase all the photos I take (well I could, but that wouldn't make for a very fun blog) so I'm going to focus on my favorite shots that I take. I'm going to try and update at least once a week but it could be more or less often than that depending on what's going on at the time outside of the photography hobby.

So sit back... or lean forward to see your monitor a bit better, enjoy the photographs and leave comments.

Thanks,
Tony