27 May, 2026
Real Adventures are Still Out There! (Part 1)
One true joy of travel is the chance it offers to stumble onto real mysteries of nature. It doesn’t happen often, but Kate and I have experienced it three times. The most recent...
3 October, 2024
More Adventures with C-Mount Marble Macros
This is my last article (for now) in a series about macro photography using C-mount cine lenses. (The first article is here and the second is here.) In the first, I tried three ...
27 September, 2024
5 Macro Frames with a Canon EOS 30 & MP-E 65mm
I do macro photography. I have an Canon MP-E 65mm EF 1-5x macro lens. I have a Canon EOS 30 film camera with EF mount. There was only one way this was going to end. I loaded up ...
14 June, 2023
Older than Dirt (a One-Shot Story)
No, I’m not talking about me. Though I have been accused!
This story’s about lichen-- a YinYang symbiosis of two organisms:
A fungus that harvests minerals for both from t...
My wife and I usually spend some time somewhere in the warm sunny south over the course of our too long winters in Ontario Canada. Not so this year. We were however looking fo...
The idea of trying to take macro shots on film came to me, when I was watching older illustrated books with all kinds of nature photography. I'm deeply impressed by what the nat...
20 November, 2020
Photographing Little Things on Film – By Jordi Fradera
There are great masters in the art of macro photography and perhaps some of them will smile if they read my article but these are the adventures of a simple amateur in this diff...
19 February, 2019
5 Frosty Frames with Vivitar 55mm 2.8 macro
Finally, I had time to test my macro lens. An old one a Vivitar 55mm, 2.8. The conditions for photographing were perfect. There was hoarfrost all over. So with Robert Capa's quo...