THE Holy Hand Grenade!'s photostream  

56 Yr Old long-haul Tractor-Trailer Driver, living in Albany, CA.
Back at home:unemployed.
I've been a photographer since 1970...

I have used, and still own, quite a number of cameras, including, but not limited to: a Santa Barbara Pinhole 4x5, an Olympus Pen-FT, three Nikons - a D40x, a Nikkormat FT2, a Nikon N75, a Rollieflex that is currently out of action, a Pentax SP-1000, & an old Zeiss-Ikon Ikonta.

I am looking to acquire two lenses in a Nikon mount, both Sigmas: a 10-20 f/3.5, and a "Bigma" 50-500. The 10-20 would only be used on the D40x, the "Bigma" would be shared amongst all the AF Nikons.

I've posted shots from 9 cameras so far - the additions to the above (and reason I'm no longer using such) are: a Nikon F4s, (stolen) Olympus OM-1MD, (fallen out of favor) a Ricoh 500, (borrowed) and a Minox M3 DCC Leica replica (not enough Mp for me - and it's low-light capability is non-existent!)

Note: all photos are full-frame for the camera in use (always tagged...) UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. (I often crop, but always indicate when I do so, unless the picture is an old (pre-2008) scan... when I might have forgotten whether the .jpg on my computer is, or is not, a crop...)

I do not alter pictures except in the following ways, unless otherwise stated in the caption: cropping, improving sharpness, contrast, brightness, saturation, and hue/color temperature and (on negative scans...) eliminating obvious dust spots.

Guidelines for how much is cropped: "lightly": less cropped off than the normal Piknik® crop; "cropped": the normal Piknic® crop; "Heavily": more than the normal crop; "Severely" a lot more than the normal crop; "ruthlessly" surviving picture area is a postage stamp of the original picture! There is some subjectivity in the last three grades...

Re: Geotags - I try to always geotag the location of the subject. The only exception to this is when I'm photographing something large and far away (like a sunset, sunrise, cloud formation...) when my geotag will be where I was standing (sitting, etc...) when the shutter went off. Exceptions will be noted as above for cropping. I do not geotag photos taken in my house/studio.

When I post in a caption the line a bus or other transit vehicle is working, I mean the line the vehicle was working on the day that the picture captioned was taken: the transit line(s) may have changed since the picture was taken! I try to indicate when such a change has happened, if i know of the change...

Here's a map of states that I've been on the road in, driving (or at least in the sleeper of...) a big-rig truck.

http://bighugelabs.com/map.php
Now out of date: will update when I get around to it...

You might notice a bias towards the southern part of the country - the months I've done long-haul trucking were always in fall or winter! This is not, BTW, all the states I've driven automobiles in - add Oregon & Washington to the total for that, and I flew into New York City (at Newark, NJ), so add NY and NJ to the list for the total states I've been in...