It's always been a challenge to manual focus my camera. Recently I found this article on DPReview, which in practice has helped me. Thanks Godfrey. (p.s. I'm posting it here for my own reference down the road. It's getting harder to find things on the Internet)

It's much easier to teach focusing in person. Writing up a procedure to do it is tedious. Happily, with a digital camera, it is easier to practice without wasting a ton of film in the process.

Here's a short sequence to experiment with:

(Direct Link: YouTube )

A behind the scenes look the Paintball Office photoshoot.

Photographer:
W. Brandon Voges
Talent:
Matt Siemer (shooter and victim), Jen Loemker
Music: Windcheater

Last week I visited the Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, California which is just north of San Diego. Here are a few images of the outing.

This is also an exercise using new tools utilizing Flickr. I hope you like the presentation.

What do you think of these two photographs? They were taken on the same day (June 8th)... 35 years apart (1972 & 2007). They both represent the state of our society at the given time! Both images are of a young woman crying! (click on the smaller thumbnails to view the other photos)

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But the amazing part is that they were taken by the same photographer! The Pulitzer Prize winning AP photographer, Huyng Cong Nick Ut !

You could also visit the Kim Phuc Phan Thi's website "Healing Children of War". (She is the little girl in the first image)

And don't miss: Nick Ut from Hell to Hollywood

(via: The Online Photographer)

Every week I'll post a few of my images on the blog. I think SimpleViewer is a very cool way of displaying images in this blog format. However, you can see much more (and in larger resolution) by clicking on the thumbnails on the right column navigation section which will direct you to my main PhotoBlog.

These images were taken last year on a visit to the famous San Diego Wild Animal Park. Enjoy.

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There are way too many good topics to write about and link to. So I've decided to somewhat assign each day of the week to a particular topic. Wednesdays will be about Photography ;-) (well, we'll see how it works out)

This photographer seems to have found the best way to manage to have the "perfect light" for her portrait photography:

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(via: Juergen Specht)

It's Photography Wednesday. Patrick at the Depth of Fish blog, has written a great article about a gift (a loan actually) he received from his grandfather when he was in high school. A Pentax ME Super SLR camera!

Light, At Thirty-Two

It is the first thing God speaks of
when we meet Him, in the good book
of Genesis. And now, I think
I see it all in terms of light:

How, the other day at dusk
on Ossabaw Island, the marsh grass
was the color of the most beautiful hair
I had ever seen, or how — years ago
in the early-dawn light of Montrose Park —
I saw the most ravishing woman
in the world, only to find, hours later
over drinks in a dark bar, that it
wasn't she who was ravishing,
but the light: how it filtered
through the leaves of the magnolia
onto her cheeks, how it turned

Great play on the shadows. this one is a fabulous photo called Double Helix by jdannels, who noticed that the shadows of a staircase looked just like DNA!

(via: DPChallenge)