Here’s a selection of photos I took in 2010 in Santa Monica, California. I applied a vintage tint to this series because I’m not satisfied anymore with the “plain” output from my Canon 30D (or any digital camera for that matter). I’d like to go back to the days of shooting film, without the hassle [...]

Well, here I am back after a very long time during which I engaged in a multitude of pleasant activities. Photography unfortunately took to the sidelines but it still remains one of my main hobbies. Here are three photos that I took a while back (in fact I wanted to post them last year in [...]

Another 30 miles or so to the west and slightly north from Galena, right across the Illinois border and the Mississippi, on the banks of the same river is the small town of Dubuque, Iowa. I’ve been here twice and what I liked about this town is the industrial-age look and the red brick buildings [...]

If you drive about 30 miles north from the Mississippi Palisades State Park you will reach a quaint little town called Galena. It seems to be rather famous around these parts for 2 reasons that I discern: skiing and balloon rides. The surrounding rolling countryside isn’t bad either, in fact it is quite idyllic. Here’s [...]

Update: for some obscure reason I omitted to detail the shooting technique in my initial post. Here it is now, after the original article. I won’t claim that I have become the master of coin lighting but here’s my take on this subject. Applying some of the Strobist techniques that I’ve been assimilating for such [...]