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Random photography-related musings & general photography jibber jabber.
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Granada, Andalucia, Spain
Test text. Colour. I spoke too soon. It was overcast and wet my first day here in Granada - I arrived having left the sun (sea & sand) of Malaga & the Costa del Sol behind. But that was a few days ago now & the anomaly of clouds & rain has passed. It’s...
Ireland vs. Italy, 2014
I was in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin yesterday to see a legend don the Irish jersey for the last time on home soil. It was a pretty special occasion. I didn't have the best seats but I was nicely positioned to get the following image at the game's conclusion, when a...
2013 – A Look Back
It's never an easy task choosing your favourite captures from a year of photography. At least it never is for me. Of course I don't help my own cause by travelling so much. I was on the road, camera in hand, for 6 of the 12 months of 2013, less time than I had...
Sony NEX-5r
I finally got to play around with my 3-day-old Sony NEX-5r today. So far so good. I'm loving the size, responsiveness & IQ. Plenty more fun to be had with this baby, that's for sure, especially when the 10-18mm lens I have on order arrives. This is Shadow, a...
Yankee Moments
Baseball has been a big part of my life for many years now. I fell in love with the game as a spectator in Yankee Stadium back in 1998, and even tried my hand at playing it, only to realise that it's a lot harder than it looks & that the only part of playing the...
Sunsets From Around The World
The Weather Channel are organising a 24-hour Google+ event on September 19th called Sunset Day. The idea is pretty simple – over a 24-hour period members of the G+ community are asked to capture & submit a sunset picture to the event page on G+. I saw that and...
Summer Weddings
The spate of Summer 2013 weddings that has my travels on hold is mercifully coming to an end; three down with one more to go (I'm off to Portugal in a few days for that one). I've rarely taken a camera out at any of the three weddings I've been to over the past few...
Syria 2008
One of my fondest travel memories of the recent past was of the days, in May 2008, that I spent in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. Like a lot of people around the world, I've been following, as best I can & with an overbearing sense of ruefulness, the...
Pancake For Breakfast
This morning was my first photography outing of 2013 but unfortunately a pre-sunrise trip to a windswept Rosses Point in Sligo, west Ireland, didn't throw up too many (good) photo opportunities. But it wasn't a total bust. I do like this simple capture, my first...
2012 – A Look Back
I knew at its outset that 2012 was going to be a special, albeit busy year for me. I mentioned in a blog entry this time last year, when doing my end-of-year pictorial recap for 2011, how photography & the online presence I had built around photography had gone...
When ‘Less’ Is ‘Just As Good’
Forward As with most things in life with photographic equipment it's generally a case of you get what you pay for. But sometimes not. Sometimes less is more, or if not more then less is just as good. Either way, less is rarely, if ever, three or three-&-a-half...
Pixel Peeping Pixels
Forward I’ve already blogged here about how, when it comes to all things photography, I like to think of myself as a simpleton, the kind of guy who just likes to take pictures, look at pictures & read up on all things photography. As a result of the latter I know...
2011 – A Look Back
I wanted to put together a blog entry to look back photographically on 2011, an entry where I group together & highlight my very favourite captures of the past 12 months. I've done that but in the process I've come to the realisation that photography - including...
Eureka! IS Works
Forward I never did any kind of testing of my camera equipment before but sitting here this evening I said I’d conduct a quick & simple test (it was very quick & very simple). The reason for doing so was born out of intrigue having recently had reason to...
Buying Camera Equipment In Seoul
Forward I started this entry as a simple blog entry but - & as tends to happen when I type - it just went on, and on, and on. It outlines my experiences as a foreigner of buying photographic equipment in the Yongsan Electronics Market in the South Korean capital...
The 7 Camera Purchasers
Forward & Credits I found this text posted to a thread on the forum of RealPhotographersForum.com. Posted by Larry Bolch, one of the very knowledgeable senior members of the site, it’s a humorous piece outlining 6 different camera-purchaser groups, or 7 if you...
In The Eye of the Beholder
Forward I don't quite know if, let alone how, I'm going to articulate, accurately or otherwise, the point I'm going to try make by typing this entry but here goes. I was reading an article today on dpreview.com, an article in which the author posted a picture of a...
Photography Quotes
Forward & Credits I have a fondness for quotes & I've been gathering photography-related quotes for a while now, my favourite photography-related quotes that is, most of which are attributed to some of the most recognisable & influential names in...
First Wedding Acronyms
Forward & Credits This is a funny article I found amongst many awesome, humour-tinted photography-related articles written by Roger Cicala of Lenrentals.com & posted to their blog in June of 2010. I've been to my fair share of weddings of late (3 in the last 4...
Canon Virtual Lens Plant
Forward Camera lenses are precision optical instruments. Of course some are more precise than others but most (good) lenses share one common characteristic - they are expensive. I always wondered why, especially at times when I was looking to buy. By visiting...
Nifty Fifty
Forward & Credits The first lens I purchased after buying my first dSLR was the now infamous Canon 50mm f/1.8 II, aka the Nifty Fifty. I bought it mainly because of what I read in this article, an article written by Gary Voth of Gary Voth Photography (Gary titled...
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
Forward & Credits Have you ever wondered where the saying 'a picture paints a thousand words' comes from? I didn't either, not until I came across an article on the subject as posted to www.phrases.org.uk...
P&S vs. dSLR
Forward I recently upgraded my camera with the purchase of the Canon EOS 60D. It's my second dSLR & it'll take over the bulk of my photography from the trusty EOS 450D/Kiss X2 that has served me well for almost 3 years now. For some reason the upgrade got me...
The dMb Photography Blog Is Live!
Welcome to my new home on the internet, my first self-hosted blogging exploit. I’m not quite sure what purpose this new corner of cyberspace is ultimately going to serve. Right now there is nothing much to see; it’s nothing more than a presence, my presence on the...
The dMb Photography Blog
Random photography-related musings & general photography jibber jabber.
[ssba] || Click here to receive dMb Photography Blog updates via Email
Granada, Andalucia, Spain
Test text. Colour. I spoke too soon. It was overcast and wet my first day here in Granada - I arrived having left the sun (sea & sand) of Malaga & the Costa del Sol behind. But that was a few days ago now & the anomaly of clouds & rain has passed. It’s...
Ireland vs. Italy, 2014
I was in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin yesterday to see a legend don the Irish jersey for the last time on home soil. It was a pretty special occasion. I didn't have the best seats but I was nicely positioned to get the following image at the game's conclusion, when a...
2013 – A Look Back
It's never an easy task choosing your favourite captures from a year of photography. At least it never is for me. Of course I don't help my own cause by travelling so much. I was on the road, camera in hand, for 6 of the 12 months of 2013, less time than I had...
Sony NEX-5r
I finally got to play around with my 3-day-old Sony NEX-5r today. So far so good. I'm loving the size, responsiveness & IQ. Plenty more fun to be had with this baby, that's for sure, especially when the 10-18mm lens I have on order arrives. This is Shadow, a...
Yankee Moments
Baseball has been a big part of my life for many years now. I fell in love with the game as a spectator in Yankee Stadium back in 1998, and even tried my hand at playing it, only to realise that it's a lot harder than it looks & that the only part of playing the...
Sunsets From Around The World
The Weather Channel are organising a 24-hour Google+ event on September 19th called Sunset Day. The idea is pretty simple – over a 24-hour period members of the G+ community are asked to capture & submit a sunset picture to the event page on G+. I saw that and...
Summer Weddings
The spate of Summer 2013 weddings that has my travels on hold is mercifully coming to an end; three down with one more to go (I'm off to Portugal in a few days for that one). I've rarely taken a camera out at any of the three weddings I've been to over the past few...
Syria 2008
One of my fondest travel memories of the recent past was of the days, in May 2008, that I spent in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. Like a lot of people around the world, I've been following, as best I can & with an overbearing sense of ruefulness, the...
Pancake For Breakfast
This morning was my first photography outing of 2013 but unfortunately a pre-sunrise trip to a windswept Rosses Point in Sligo, west Ireland, didn't throw up too many (good) photo opportunities. But it wasn't a total bust. I do like this simple capture, my first...
2012 – A Look Back
I knew at its outset that 2012 was going to be a special, albeit busy year for me. I mentioned in a blog entry this time last year, when doing my end-of-year pictorial recap for 2011, how photography & the online presence I had built around photography had gone...
When ‘Less’ Is ‘Just As Good’
Forward As with most things in life with photographic equipment it's generally a case of you get what you pay for. But sometimes not. Sometimes less is more, or if not more then less is just as good. Either way, less is rarely, if ever, three or three-&-a-half...
Pixel Peeping Pixels
Forward I’ve already blogged here about how, when it comes to all things photography, I like to think of myself as a simpleton, the kind of guy who just likes to take pictures, look at pictures & read up on all things photography. As a result of the latter I know...
2011 – A Look Back
I wanted to put together a blog entry to look back photographically on 2011, an entry where I group together & highlight my very favourite captures of the past 12 months. I've done that but in the process I've come to the realisation that photography - including...
Eureka! IS Works
Forward I never did any kind of testing of my camera equipment before but sitting here this evening I said I’d conduct a quick & simple test (it was very quick & very simple). The reason for doing so was born out of intrigue having recently had reason to...
Buying Camera Equipment In Seoul
Forward I started this entry as a simple blog entry but - & as tends to happen when I type - it just went on, and on, and on. It outlines my experiences as a foreigner of buying photographic equipment in the Yongsan Electronics Market in the South Korean capital...
The 7 Camera Purchasers
Forward & Credits I found this text posted to a thread on the forum of RealPhotographersForum.com. Posted by Larry Bolch, one of the very knowledgeable senior members of the site, it’s a humorous piece outlining 6 different camera-purchaser groups, or 7 if you...
In The Eye of the Beholder
Forward I don't quite know if, let alone how, I'm going to articulate, accurately or otherwise, the point I'm going to try make by typing this entry but here goes. I was reading an article today on dpreview.com, an article in which the author posted a picture of a...
Photography Quotes
Forward & Credits I have a fondness for quotes & I've been gathering photography-related quotes for a while now, my favourite photography-related quotes that is, most of which are attributed to some of the most recognisable & influential names in...
First Wedding Acronyms
Forward & Credits This is a funny article I found amongst many awesome, humour-tinted photography-related articles written by Roger Cicala of Lenrentals.com & posted to their blog in June of 2010. I've been to my fair share of weddings of late (3 in the last 4...
Canon Virtual Lens Plant
Forward Camera lenses are precision optical instruments. Of course some are more precise than others but most (good) lenses share one common characteristic - they are expensive. I always wondered why, especially at times when I was looking to buy. By visiting...
Nifty Fifty
Forward & Credits The first lens I purchased after buying my first dSLR was the now infamous Canon 50mm f/1.8 II, aka the Nifty Fifty. I bought it mainly because of what I read in this article, an article written by Gary Voth of Gary Voth Photography (Gary titled...
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
Forward & Credits Have you ever wondered where the saying 'a picture paints a thousand words' comes from? I didn't either, not until I came across an article on the subject as posted to www.phrases.org.uk...
P&S vs. dSLR
Forward I recently upgraded my camera with the purchase of the Canon EOS 60D. It's my second dSLR & it'll take over the bulk of my photography from the trusty EOS 450D/Kiss X2 that has served me well for almost 3 years now. For some reason the upgrade got me...
The dMb Photography Blog Is Live!
Welcome to my new home on the internet, my first self-hosted blogging exploit. I’m not quite sure what purpose this new corner of cyberspace is ultimately going to serve. Right now there is nothing much to see; it’s nothing more than a presence, my presence on the...