This is my first test of the Panasonic Lumix LX3 with its 0.75x wide angle adapter using the 10-meter-long carp pole. This combination yields the equivalent of an 18-mm lens and provides quite the illusion of height. I used Photoshop's Filter > Distort > Lens Correction to remove a bit of barrel distortion.

The camera, adapter lens, and my intervalometer have a combined weight of just over a pound (460 grams). The pole seems to handle this reasonably well. When the pole in in a vertical position I can handle it with one hand as in this image where I am holding the pole by its end and raising it above my head.

I rarely shoot straight down the pole but thought I would try it here for fun. The DNA sculpture is said to be 60 feet long.

This dewdrop world

Is but a dewdrop world,

And yet...

- Kobayashi Issa

alexander calder

"nine elements"

1950

painted steel

[at the uc berkeley art museum]

The Cheney House, oldest structure remaining on the UC Berkeley campus.

koda's first day of daycare

UC Berkeley. When I was a kid it was the neighborhood university. Now it is place where men like me are not welcome.

uc berkeley dining hall

berkeley, california

1971

on campus

university of california, berkeley

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

View of the campus and city looking southwest from the Campanile. Ludwig's Fountain and Sproul Plaza are at the center of this image.

Effects of Rain, 1879. Etching with aquatint and drypoint (1830-1903) BAM/PFA

It was a cloudy day--so dark that the lamp in the photo had turned on in mid-afternoon.

Still scary.