Innocence is always unsuspicious.

– Joseph Joubert

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting images. That said…

There is a preciousness of the innocence of childhood. There is also a preciousness to the mischief of childhood. It is a a joy to be an invisible observer the the moment of when those two states of being are about to cross paths.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/400 of a second ISO 7200. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Probably the most boring title I have ever used. A good contrast with the photo I hope! Some grain added in post but the snow is all real.

The rear of the Thames Water HQ, as seen from the path with the Thames out of the frame on the left, Reading, Berks.

A Caper, as one may call a denizen of Cape Breton Island, will be recognized very quickly whenever he/she ventures out and about. The waitress in this Bistro recognized our companion and friend Dennis as "that runner from Glace Bay". Apparently they lived doors apart on the same street in that town over fifty years ago when she was a child and Dennis was an excellent long-distance runner and she recognized him without fail and reminisced about the past.

Returning to the scene of the sublime.

Liquid Gold mural art exhibit by Toronto-based digital artist Alex McLeod. The art works are displayed in the hallways of the centre and at the entrance to the underground parking lot through to December 2024.

Trying out HDR from two photos processed in Affinity Photo

Bras D'Or Lake is a UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve located in the centre of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is an inland sea consisting of a salt-water estuary watershed. The sea has three passages to the Atlantic Ocean.

The small but deep inland sea has 12 significant watersheds draining both highlands and lowlands and was created as the Holocene Transgression (refers to the geographical phenomenon involving the global retreat of glaciers) flooded a complex river-lake system of diverse geology.

With Content from Wikipedia

Z8 (FW v3.0 - Beta)

Z 105mm MC (Micro)

Westcott Solix LED + Westcott Apollo (Octabox)

Promaster LED (thru the background)

Focus Shift + Pixel Shift

This is the one they chose.

I was asked to test the new 3.0 firmware and make a few images using the newly combined features of Pixel shift and Focus Shift. During the testing process, I was asked to make an image that Japan would end up using to launch the new firmware. I was incredibly honored that they chose this one.

This was captured as 1,600 NEF files... merged using NX Studio to 50 NEFX (180,000,000 pixel) files... then stacked in Helicon to a single image of about 1.09 GB. Then in Photoshop Elements, it was 'dumbed down' to the 5 MB file.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

– Muhammad Ali

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. It was a hotter than hell day with humidity that you felt that you could swim in the air. I always make it a point to shoot boxers after I shoot ballet dancers. Prepares me for the elegance of the randomness of the ring.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III and my favorite lens the “Plena” 135mm f 1.8 S Nikkor lens. The beauty of the bokeh and the tack sharpness of the focus cannot ever be over stated. 5000 of a second IS) 2800. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Krest at dusk

Fo Guang Shan Temple of Toronto: the name means Buddha's Light Mountain and was founded by Venerable Master Hsing Yin in 1967 in Taiwan according to the principles of humanistic Buddhism.

The Toronto Buddhist temple branch is located in Mississauga in the west end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and operates a satellite Dharma centre in Markham (here in this photo) on Denison Street to provide services to Buddhists in the eastern part of the GTA. There is also a centre in Kitchener-Waterloo. These are dedicated to sharing the teachings of Gautama Buddha and are part of the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

Having the talent and having the right mindset together can make you unstoppable.

—Ruben Dias

I shot this image of Jenna Ortega on the set of the movie Saving Flora. It’s been a minute since I capture this. I thought I had posted it. I have been asked to do Glynn Dewis’s podcast and he needs images. I could not find this image anywhere and had tog to thee archive. I do not even have it in a slideshow.

What stuck with me to this day was how giving an gracious she was and how she lit up a camera. I have been a fan of hers ever since that moment.

I shot this with a then prototype Nikon D5 and my favorite lens at the time the 105 f1.4. which I shot the ad campaign for because according to the Japanese marketing firm “my work was the most blurry of all the ambassadors.” I still don’t know how to take that

Image raw processed in Capture NX and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Cut daffodils taken indoors on a Z MC-105/2.8 at f22.

It's been fairly difficult motivating myself to do enough cycling now I no longer have to for work. The amount of motorised traffic makes riding a pretty intense experience. The solution is simple - just go early - very early!

Robin

Utility Box painted by artist Gimun Ryu

The word gut is used in place names in Cape Breton, i.e. Catalone Gut, Mira Gut, Framboise Gut etc. It means were water is fed through a narrow channel from a small body of water into a larger one. In this photo water flows from a smallish lake beyond the bridge into a larger body of water, here Mira Bay, part of the Atlantic Ocean.

The word gut's origin is debatable. Mi'kmaw, Gaelic, French and English are all spoken in Cape Breton and one could be the source language.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for – liberation.

—– Martha Graham

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. I love photographing Cuban Ballet dancers. This image is of the ballerina Lilia Laura Martinez Hernandez and the ballerino Luis Raúl Fernández. I love how how a dance shows up and shows their heart and soul from the moment thy show up to the moment they walk of the stage. For them center stage is always where they are.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III the 50mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. 1/2000 of a sec ISO 4000 Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,

– Leonardo da Vinci

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting and post processing my images- Then I went Cuba. Then I came back 0n the 6th. Then I had to put my entire studio back together from prepping to bug out from the fires

That said…

In my work I I am in the practice of practicing. Practice does not make perfect, a perfect practice makes perfect. Which is why I always am practicing at practicing. With the pursuit of attaining the Zen state of Shibumi- effortless perfection and elegance. A state of doing that is thoughtful thoughtless thought.

For me this image of Cuban Olympic boxer Alejandro Iglesias. I was at the gym he trains at, a place I have been going for 20 years. The background is a chainlink fence that separates the practice areas. The clouds part for a moment and a Godbeam of light shown through and he was standing there in the boxing ring interrupting the beautiful light. The moment only lasted two frames and the work began to move again. But in that moment we were all part of the whole of that moment.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/2000 of a second ISO 12000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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This spring has been absolutely amazing for blossom in England. Most daffodils have died back but dandelions dominate the unmown verges.

St James, Finchampstead, Berks. Got off my backside & knocked off 20 miles. Instead of taking my iPhone - took my Z6. The Queens Oak is down the hill to the right.

You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

--Frederick Lenz

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I was employee number six of Altamira group, the creators of Genuine Fractals scaling technology and the second employee of Niksoftware. That goes back to the time when dirt was discovered. Why I bring this up is my complete and utter fascination with the concept that everything in the universe is a fractal, no two fractals are the same but in the same exact place after a series of random numbers is The Thumbprint of God. A perfect mathematical fractal, such as the famous Mandelbrot set— this self-similarity goes infinitely deep: each pattern made up of smaller copies of itself and those smaller copies made up of smaller copies again, forever.

What does the above have to do with this image you ask? There is the whole totality of the car, then there are the smaller parts of the self similarity of the car that are part of the whole and yet completely different. That thought just fascinates me. So if you wonder why you see a lot a parts of the micro and macro world of reality. Now you know.

I shot this with the135mm f 1.8 S “Plena” Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 125. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Set stills from the short I just shot of the dancer Kamila Capote with a Zr modified for IR. #Nikon100 #kmy.98

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature

—Josef Albers

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. Patterns are interesting but patterns interrupts are more interesting. I believe that Human visual perception is the more important consideration when working and framing/composing an image not 17th century painting theory. I also believes that all images, or in my case, all my images are optical illusions and just a variation of the “French Drop” coin trick. Oh yeah- I love photographing Cuban Ballet dancers.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III the135mm f 1.8 “Plena” Nikkor lens. 1/400 of a sec ISO 100 Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Looking south along Tunnel Road, Reigate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

– Dorothea Lange

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting images. That said…

There is a variation in this image that literally is a the frame before this one. What a difference in image meaning because of one simple moment gesture from frame 499 to frame 500.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR S Plena 135mm f/1.8 lens. 1/400 of a second ISO 100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. It will defend itself. - St. Augustine

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is something humbling about being so close to a creature that you ca hear it breathing and at any moment you could have you become it’s mid-day snack faster than you realize you are it’s mid day snack. More humbling is the sensation of being looked at and through without any other consideration other than the instant it became aware of you and then you just disappeared.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z8 using the 100-400mm S lens, Kolarivision IR Conversion. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

--George Monbiot

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

There is more in the world to photograph that which is obviously in front of us. We go to a boxing gym and all we see are boxers. Learning how to slow down to the speed of life and be taken by all that is around me, then stopping time and capturing for a forever moment of an interesting simple plainness. That is the joy of photography for me.

I shot this with the 55mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. 1/2500 of a second ISO 105. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Sometimes you just have to drive the dirt bike into the Christmas tree.

– Anna Kendrick

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Life does not come you have to come to life. You don’t take the picture the picture takes you. We make our own luck and we create our own magic. Bottom line you simply have to drive the dirt bike into the Christmas tree.

I shot this with the 50mm f1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/2500 of a second ISO 5000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

– Dorothea Lange

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

In the course of our day we tend to forget that we the world around us travels at the speed of life and not at the speed of lost in our thoughts. Our physical bodies are moving at one speed and our consciousness is moving not in sync generally somewhere else.I have found that being able to to slow both mind and body to the same speed, the speed of life, is the key to achieving a n interesting plainest, the most difficult thing to achieve.

I shot this with the 135mm f 1.8 “plane” Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 220. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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