Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

A pleasant Saturday afternoon at the Brooklyn Botanic with the D1X and the 17-55 F2.8 G. The colors from the DIX are unbeatable. ENJOY

Yes indeed, spring should be here soon, we hope. This shot was taken with the Canon 16035 F2.8 L. I know it;s cliche but who cares.

Yes indeed. Venice, what can I say other than it's a phenomenon. The lens used was the kit lens or the Nikkor 17-70 F3.5-4.5. An ideal travel lens.

The D2-H was a workhorse. I put those 4 mega pixels to good use. I had two of them and used an all my jobs. It was the model I used for the longest time. Here is a close up of a tulip near it's end with a lens that I cannot remember.

A great travel camera. Nothing more to add. These were shot in Castellammare del Golfo. The my Cousin's Cu ce' ce' caffe and wine bar. The shot of the cortile is from a building in the corso, or main street.

Ah, Washington square on a summer day. I can hope. can't I.

The blogs are all astir about the fact that neither Nikon nor Canon came out with new maxi mega pixel cameras this year. Some are actually going nuts. I can only say that a lot of this is BS. Here is an example from 2001 with the S1-Pro that had a puny 3,4 mega pixel camera. I believe that the colors and image quality have not been equaled. This is a JPEG out of the camera. I have 13X19 enlargements that are excellent. It's nice to have the extra pixels for cropping but this race for bigger and bigger is insanity. OK, the S1-Pro was very basic, it's AF was useless and the body was very plastcky. But for many applications it was outstanding. Nevertheless, this is a shout in the wind. The race for more pixels will go on and on. That doesn't mean that the older cameras are useless. I prefer my Canon 5D to the 5D II that I gave to my daughter. The files were just too large. The difference in IQ was not visible at all.

The old rail road station at Mystic Connecticut. The lens was the 17-55 F2.8 Nikkor G.

It's the only way to fight the winter blues. Look at what was and will be soon. The lens was the Olympus 14-45 F3.5-5.6. BTW, more snow is on it's way.

Enough of this snow, of this white on white. Here are two shots in that time in June when all the leaves are still very delicate. The lens was the 14-45 3.5-5.6 Olympus.

There's nothing else to photographs these days. I used the Canon EF 35mm F2 lens. I hope the snow goes away but more is in the forecast.

From our friends at IR/News We were barely out of the first room of his early work when we realized Cartier-Bresson shot JPEG. There was no way he would capture Raw or even Raw+JPEG and then fiddle with the tone and color for hours. He was a man of action. And a man of action puts a couple of rolls of film in one pocket and his Leica 35mm in the other and sets off on his world journey. No Raw, no laptop, no Lightroom, no presets, no workflow. As the curator rightly pointed out on one of the rare bare spots on the walls of the exhibition, the small camera was an innovation the young Henri could not resist. It made photography so convenient. And beat the pants off drawing and painting images when it came to productivity. It was the visual Twitter of its day. A short exposure for the complete image. But Cartier-Bresson was something of a haiku master (to stretch that metaphor). His short exposures were packed with poetry. Early on and late in the day. We simply enjoyed the extensive show,...

Enough already I need to see colors. Shot with the Canon 35mm F2 EF lens.