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image from the lens i built

image from the lens i built

Work was slow today, so I built a lens today from the mount of a broken Canon 18-55 and an element from inside the lens. It looks like a pancake lens and produces a lot of blur in the images, but I like the effect!

the blog of christmas present

I woke up like most years, warm in bed.  But unlike last year and so many years in the past, I woke up not to a white Christmas, but to a bright one of 62˚.  I’ve spent the last 5 weeks struggling with the concept that Christmas is approaching. Spending my first Christmas in Los … Continue reading »

the blog of christmas past

December 25, 2008 I just had the best Christmas ever. I’m at the Jungle Mantra Lodge outside of a Bandhavgar National Park in India.  I slept well, despite only having arrived very early that morning.  We enjoyed a delicious breakfast on the veranda, which was followed by a Catholic mass given by an Indian Priest. … Continue reading »