Groucho Dis' photostream  

I'm just another amateur having fun with more gear than I really need. I shot with a Pentax K1000 for many years, mainly doing automotive photography, resisting digital until finally (it seemed like a long way at the time!) buying a Fuji 2600, which was 2mp and had an impressive for its time 6x zoom. How times have changed! A brief stint with a 5mp Minolta Z5 (or "the noisemaker" as I called it) convinced me that it was time to go with a digital SLR. It didn't even occur to me that I might be able to use my old lenses until I stumbled across the Pentax *ist DL... and the rest is history. Thanks to the photography forums and an understanding wife, I've got way more "stuff" than I ever anticipated. Yet still, it is often the act of taking the photo that is the most fun; I still have thousands of digital photos to go through, just like I use to have piles of rolls of film to develop back in the day.

My favorite subjects are cars and other machinery and travel photos, especially Disney World. I also now, like most parents, take a ton of photos of my two children - Jack, a 6-year-old boy and Leila, 2-year-old girl. I tend to upload a large number of photos; I'm not sure if this is good (a wide variety of shots up for viewing) or bad (the best shots can get lost in the mix), but that's the way it goes. The large number also means that I tend to put pretty dull descriptions up for the photos - no clever names for each one.

I'm probably best known for my fisheye photos, having started posting fisheye Disney photos online back in January 2007 (very unusual back then!), but I like using all manner of oddball lenses, especially old manual-focus ones. What I don't like: HDR (since when are shadows brighter than highlights?), the "rule of thirds" (I'm with Michael Freeman on this one), and I have yet to be convinced that ND filter + fireworks is a good idea. That being said, I'm really a nice guy in person, honest!