Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant released her first solo album, Tigerlilly, in 1995. I remember its top-ten single "Carnival" was all over the radio for months. And of course there was a music video to go with it.I was disappointed with the video. I liked Merchant's songs, but the video felt like she wasn't really trying: It's shot in black-and-white, and it just … [Read more...] about A Carnival of Street Photography
Photography
Requiem For a Lens
I recently bought some new camera gear, and now I'm thinking of selling a couple of my old lenses. One of them is a Sigma fish-eye lens (10-20mm f4/5.6 for Nikon DX) that I use for extreme wide-angle photos. It's a trick lens, and while some of the images are interesting, I never really used it as much as I hoped to.The other lens, however, is the original Nikon DX … [Read more...] about Requiem For a Lens
My Photography Day Bag
Original photography has been a part of this blog for almost ten years. If you've met me in real life, then probably at some point you've seem me carrying around my camera bag. I thought some of my readers -- especially other amateur photographers interested in the kind of photos I take -- might find it interesting to see what I've been carrying around all that time.The … [Read more...] about My Photography Day Bag
Photos By Jim Jurica
As I've mentioned, I'm in the process of porting Windypundit to the Wordpress blogging engine, and I'm going to need a new site design since this template is specific to Movable Type. I'm using this opportunity to do a redesign. I've chosen a new photo for the header, and I'm using it to select colors for the rest of the page. And since I'm changing all this stuff … [Read more...] about Photos By Jim Jurica
When the Camera Matters
Photographers like to tell amateurs that "your camera doesn't matter." What they mean by this is that if you want to take nice pictures, you probably shouldn't get too hung up on the technical differences between cameras. For a broad range of photographic subjects and conditions, the pictures you take with a $5000 digital camera aren't that much better than those you'd take … [Read more...] about When the Camera Matters
