“Wow!  That camera of yours takes great pictures!” said Howard, after seeing the professional-quality portrait I had just taken of him us...

The heat wave continues.  It’s hot and humid in Shenzhen, the mainland China province which manufacturers no end of consumer electronics go...

I love China.  Some of you might remember the China Blog I kept when I was teaching English there in 2003.  Well, now I’m back; this time...

The Great Firewall of China is blocking access to Facebook, youtube, my blog, flickr, and a host of other sites.  (Don't ask how I pos...

I don't know of any camera anywhere that can expose accurately when shooting in the forest.  Usually they come out overexposed and have...

Cleaning dust off my sensor has always been a 20-minute ordeal. You’ve been there: Stop down your lens, take a test shot, move it to your ...

So it's been awhile since my last newsletter.  Yeah, things have been busy.  My 12-year-old desktop computer died, so a whole week of p...

Recently one of the Spanish newsgroups had interviewed me (and my very talented Spanish translator, Francesc Garcia) about the books, photog...

 In December's blog entry I raved about how unexpectedly good the A500 / A550's metering system was, and at the time I had attribut...

You've heard of umbrellas and softboxes before - those are classical means of diffusing light (especially light from an accessory flash...

I wasn't going to write this.  After all, I never do camera reviews (I just write books about them :-) ) and I had not budgeted any time...