Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

North east Pennsylvania in February of 2008. The Canon 5D with the 24-85 f3.5-4.5 EF lens. With autumn here can winter be far behind?

On the DP Review discussion forum [the 1d, 5D fora] someone pointed out that EVF [electronic view finders} were inevitable. I pointed out that this was not a good thing as we buy SLR's because of their pentaprisms. In a reply, I was called old school and the implication wa that I was not capable to appreciate this so called progress. The interlocutor went on to list the many advantages and then asked rethorically what were the shortcomings. My reply was: Well as you put it there aren't any shortcomings unless you consider the photographer as part of the picture. Your ideal EVF camera can do all these wonderful things all by itself, it seems, and to the point where the person behind the camera becomes almost irrelevant. I like to pre visualize how my final photo will look like either on a monitor or as a print. When we shot film we didn't know anything until we developed and then printed the negatives. It may be old school and old fashioned but not all so called modern thin...

Back at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Early June 2005 in the rose garden with the Olympus E300 and the 14 to 45 3.5-5.6 lens.

The St Anthony's Feast in Little Italy with the Canon G9. June of 2008.

Early spring 2003, in Freeport Long Island. The old water works building. Taken with the Olympus E20.

It's the Canon 5D again with the 16 to 35 f2.8 L. In North eastern Pennsylvanya. Late fall of 2008.

Once again the Canon 5D with the 24-105 f4 L lens. Its again the recent fund raiser for the Futures in Education Foundation that offers scholarships to needy children so that they can attend Catholic school.

A preview of things to come soon. Taken in north east Pennsylvania in October, 2008, with a Nikon D300 with the 17-55 f2.8 G Nikkor.