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EQUIPMENT:

Canon A620 digital camera, Optix T-260 tripod, Fancier FT6662A Traveller Aluminum Alloy tripod w/ Fancier FT-6663AH head, Fancier FT6884 Carbon Fiber tripod w/ Amvona ATH-919 Offset tripod head, VidPro 35" tripod bag, LowePro TLZ2 bag and TLZ2 AW bag w/chest harness, Godspeed SY618 camera bag, Kenko 4-slot filter case, Pelican Filter Case II M62-6 6-slot filter case, 1 small Lenspen, Velbon PH-243 ball head.

Pentacon Six medium format SLR, Zeiss Biometar 80mm 1:2.8 lens, 3-stage rubber lens hood, 58mm MC UV filter, 58mm CPL filter.

Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex IIa medium format TLR (earlier version), Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex IIa TLR (later version, but currently unusable at slow shutter speeds as it needs a CLA), Ikoprox 0.5m and 1.0m, Mamiya Paramender I.

Canon FT-QL 35mm SLR, Canon 50mm 1:1.8 lens, Hanimex 28mm 1:2.8 lens, Canon 135mm 1:3.5 lens, Marexar-CX 80-205mm 1:4.5 lens, Vivitar 3-4x teleconverter.



ABOUT MY PHOTOGRAPHY:

Many photographers like to process their photos in such a way, that the resulting photo looks like an embellished version of what the original shot must have looked like when they originally took it. Little things like saturating the colors a bit too much, extreme HDR, burning and dodging certain areas to enhance and improve the aesthetics of the photo to make it look more like 'art', etc, etc.

I have NO TROUBLE WHATSOEVER with other people doing that, but I have no intentions at the present to do any of that with my photography, at least not to any great extent. When you look at my photos, it's 96-98% real, and 2-4% embellishment. So basically, what you see, is what I saw. Simple as that :) !

I live only 3 blocks away from Centennial Park, so understandably, most of my shoots are from that gold-mine of photographic treasures :).