Recent content by Bongo

I used Nikon when I shot film. Then got a Canon Dslr when they first came out. Shot it so much I fried the shutter, then got a Pentax 10d when it first came out -battery grip, weather sealed, first digital with ibis, - at the time I too loved big heavy cameras. Thought I was cool by...

This painting envolks "heightened noticing" - (a theory of Peter Schjeldahl -art critic) That the validity of any kind of aesthetic experience lies in the quality of attention brought to bear upon it.

It's not the megapixels.... it's not even the photographs so much. It's the enjoyment of taking pictures. As mentioned you can get a good photograph out of just about any camera. But I want a camera that makes me smile just looking at it, admiring the function and form. And especially feels...

The thing is I already knew all this - and it's a trick used for just about everything --but what do you do?

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after much research and thinking about it, came to realize I don't need another hobby - which is what medium format film would be to me - but I do need/want a new camera - last I bought was my Sony Nex 6 -- 13 years ago. SO after more thinking and researching I landed on a Sony rx100 IV --...

Oly, that's great!. In the article I linked Leifer talks how he covered the first Ali v. Sonny Liston, and since Ali beat Liston resoundedly there wasn't a lot of interest in the rematch. Ali was a 7-1 favorite. The ring was set up in a youth's hockey rink and 4,000 people attended. No one...

He's the kid (22 years old at the time) who took the photo that's considered the greatest sports photo of all time: Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston after he knocked him down. GREAT READ and lots of takeaways and insights about photography and that night As a NYtimes subscriber I get to...

Very Ayinian. They stare at the viewer with a "what are you looking at" expression. I'm trying to understand the marks over the mouths. Cisco the kid, 1951 "welcome to Mexico" Cool and enigmatic at the same time.

love this one, the modeling is well done.

Nathan these charcoals are great. I'm an oil painter but a lot of the images I want to make would be better suited for charcoal, so I got a bunch of charcoal stuff and....going to be a very long road:)