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2012 May Blog

May has started off with a focus on upgrading memory and drives to ensure my MacPro infrastructure will accommodate the
storing of large files sizes and the increased CPU processing requirements of PS CS6 and the Nikon D4. My workflow includes a fresh install of the MAC OS, which means about thirty hours of effort to load software and licenses for forty orso essential applications and plug-ins. With the effort complete, I’ll post a blog or two of some real cool hardware technology for the MAC fans, that will really make your machines buzz thru those PSB files.

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Suffolk Danse

addy invited me to her Suffolk University danse recital on the 24th. I was able to bring along my D4 and I was not sure what to expect so I took something that  could give me some extra reach, the Nikon 70-300 F/4.8mm. The 7o-300 is a VR lens and is very well respected by the [...]

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CopperHill SensorSweep

  Originally Posted Jan 01,2012 promised to provide a few tips this month on gear maintenance.  One small but Extremely important tool is the sensor brush which you use for cleaning the sensor inside your camera. The only brush that is worth laying down any money for is the 1/2″ wide, synthetic filament, India made, [...]

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Shaker Stonework

o you ever drive past something and wonder what the light would be like at a different time of day.  I thought about that when I took an afternoon trip over to Pittsfield, Ma and drove past the Shakervillage farms. I made a point to return in the early morning to see how the light [...]

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Easter Full Moon

originally published apr 12, 2012 n order to capture the full moon during Easter week, I had to get up at around 4 am and dress up for the frosty, windy, lake cold of Spring nightfalls.  My night shooting skills had gone to hell and I was at it for four nights in a row [...]

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Gravity Trapp

e is falling. F=MA. Even my D4 at 10fps could not catch a decent next image. The woods stood silent as I watched and heard the primal terror in his lyanyx as he collided with the rock as his bellying rope snapped taught to crisply terminate his free fall. This was his last 1/60 of [...]

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The Trapps

he Trapps is three miles of rock face at 1,000′ elevation mark which has over 300 cliff climbs of various degrees of difficulty. Faceing westward, the sun willl be on your back, you’ll approach the hill from a gravel carrage road and after you find your trail marker, it five minutes or so to the [...]

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Gunk Bound

  t’s o’dark thirty and the moon is still high in the sky but the cars kept blasting up from the valley on this backwoods mountain top road.  I didn’t understand why the influx of such steady car activity until later in the morning. Rather than complain about these steel nighttime critters, I put the [...]

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Spring

m sure you all have that first day of spring encountered moment. It could happen in your backyard, the drive to work, or with a toss of a baseball…it’s that moment when you realize that Winter is not coming back.  That moment for me was driving a backroad of Kingstown, Ny..with a popped opened sunroof, [...]

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Fritzimages Catskills from the Gunks

Catskills from the Gunks

y journey began at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass looking at the massive oil canvases of the 19th century Hudson River School painters. The artists of the 1825-1874 period traveled and painted with a style which; “regarded nature as a direct manifestation of God, and the luminous landscape an expression of the divine”. Indeed, [...]

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