Not many people would take a photo of Madison skyline on a gloomy day. You probably have seen lots of Madison skyline photos that are much more “beautiful” than this one. If you haven’t, doing a Google search will get you there. So I told myself, “I’m not going to make another one of those. …
The current owner of this historic site has put a lot of effort into restoring and renovating these old train station buildings. The main building is now a huge bike shop with a newly created basement that can probably store hundreds of bikes. The rest of the buildings are occupied by some small businesses, including …
Fujifilm X-Pro1 + Hexanon 21mm f/2.8 AE
I don’t know what it is. But the fun of photography seems to be coming back.
It’s been a while without taking photos at night. I don’t feel like it’s my thing, but it’s fun to do it once in a while. This was a 2-minute exposure, and I turned off the noise reduction function so that I didn’t have to wait another 2 minutes for the camera to take the …
It’s been a very busy month in May. I took this picture on May 1st, but did not have it developed until today (June 5th). A special note to this picture is that it’s taken with the Fujinon SW 105mm f/8 lens that was successfully removed from my broken Fujifilm G617 camera and then mounted …
The more I use the X-Pro1, the more I like it, especially its color. Although it still has some quirks I would never like, I guess I can’t ask too much. After all, no camera is perfect. The Hexanon AR 35mm f/2 AE lens is phenomenal. It produces very sharp images, and its bokeh is …
Violin Professor Tyrone Greive is retiring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring. He had retired from the Madison Symphony Orchestra as a concertmaster in 2010. He performed the Violin Concerto No.2 by Szymanowski with the UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra tonight. The Department of Music will hold a Retirement Reception for him on Sunday. I was …
It’s about time to bring my Konica Hexanon Project into digital era. The Fujifilm X-Pro1 seems to be an ideal camera for the project, and I really love the color rendering from the X-Trans sensor. Its poor auto-focus would not bother me anyway, at least for this project, but I wish I could enter the …