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Black Hats & White Hats
Freedom
From shoes and other such obligations.
Taken at a road trip to the Swedish island ”Öland” in the Baltic Sea.
Jenny
Go Places – Inspiration – Geocaching
Do you have a difficult time to get inspiration for going on a phot walk or hike away in nature to take some pictures? Are you low on ideas of what to photograph? Do you have a GPS receiver suiteable for trekking/hiking (most car navigation systems are not, you want a smaller handheld device)?
Then this is an interesting hobby that you might want to check out! It’s called Geocaching and I will explain a little about what it is.
Basically geocaching is a treasure hunt. What happens here is that someone hides a ”treasure” for you to find. There is usually not anything valuable in it, it is just the location actually that’s the whole point of it. These treasures are referred to as geocaches and when they are hidden they are also published with GPS coordinates on this homepage.
Hunters go to the home page and find some caches nearby where they live – or where they wish to go hunting, then they download the coordinates, descriptions and perhaps also the hints – called ”spoilers” (they may spoil the fun of searching). Equipped with a GPS receiver, the coordinates, a pen they set out to try to locate the cache.
Review: Tamron SP Di 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 lens
A great lens for macro photography that doubles as a good portrait lens as well when you need it. A little long to use as a walk-around but can sure capture some interesting angles.
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Review: Nikkor AF 50/1.8D
Looking for a cheap, really sharp wonderful normal lens then this 50mm is for you (if you have a Nikon or Fuji camera body). I love this little piece of glass!
Review: Nikkor DX AF-S 55-200 f/4-5.6G ED
This lens is usually bought as a step-up lens from the kit lens with the entry-level digital SLR cameras from Nikon. I got one as well before my first trip to Öland because I was still waiting for my 18-200/3.5-5.6 lens to arrive in the mail. As it turned out I would have to wait for more than six months for that beauty so I had some time to use the 55-200 and get aquainted with it.
In Khmer Country
A few years ago in 2004 I had the opportunity to go to Cambodia. It is a fascinating country in many ways and it serves us well to remember that it was not long ago Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge spread fear and terror in trying to implement his distorted idea of communism in the countryside. Pol Pot executed so many educated people that the country was left depleted of knowledge. With help of their neighbour countries such as Thailand and other world-wide associations Cambodia is coming back now as a proper functioning country.
Make a matchbox pinhole camera
This site has an incredibly cool step-by-step on how to build your own pinhole camera.
The camera can be built using normal appliances and stuff that you have in your house normally. Some of the pictures shown taken by this camera is quite incredible.
The aperture of the camera is about f/90 and I am not sure what the focal length is but I believe it is not too far from a 50 mm lens actually. This means that exposure times in broad daylight is 2-3 seconds, in cloudy conditions 5-8 seconds indoor is 5-10 minutes or so but it is cool to have built your own camera.
Here are some pictures taken with a pinhole camera by the original maker of it. Alspix profile on Flickr here.
