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My summer vacation in Central Finland
Every year we spend a couple of weeks in a rental cabin in Central Finland (in Saarijärvi to be exact). I tend to take lots of pictures there and focus on shooting macro. This year I got 360 pictures worth saving and here's some of the best ones. I had both E-M5 and GX800 with me and most of these are with shot with E-M5.
17Oct 9, 2017 -
Why I Love m43 (2017 Petit Le Mans)
Many of us come to m43 because of the smaller size and lighter weight of the equipment, looking to downsize from our larger and heavier DSLR systems, without sacrificing too much in terms of image quality. One way that's achievable is thanks to the excellent lenses that we have available to us in the system. While not new to the m43 system, I've recently taken advantage of just how small and compact one can make a m43 kit.
I've always been a huge motorsport and racing fan, from as far back as I can remember. My father would take me to the race track as a child, and it was a common bond that we shared together. The sense of speed, the smells of racing fuel and rubber, and most importantly, the sound. Just the feeling of having your body and ground shake as you stand next to an open header V8 warming up, it's unreal. Through the years, I've been fortunate enough to make relationships with enough people that I'm afforded the opportunity to go and help out at a handful of races a year. I've been doing this for years now, but only recently starting taking a small bit of m43 kit to the track to document the behind-the-scenes work that goes on with the crew, as they're the people that enable to fans to enjoy this sport. Most recently, I flew down to Atlanta, Georgia for the Petit Le Mans, a 10 hour endurance race consisting of multiple types of cars on track at once.
Because my primary function is helping the team, I pack a relatively small m43 kit that I can stow in a LowePro ViewPoint CS80 padded case, which gets thrown in my backpack. Despite the small size of the case, I manage to fit a surprising amount of gear in there. My typical race kit consists of an E-M5 II, 9mm f/8 FE, 75mm f/1.8, 42.5mm f/1.7, 25mm f/1.8, two spare batteries, 58mm & 46mm CPL and ND 0.9 filters, a 10,000 mAh rechargeable battery, a USB battery charger, and 6" USB and Lightning cables (for charging camera batteries or my cell phone)....26Oct 13, 2017 at 8:51 AM -
Great White Sharks of Isle Guadalupe, Mexico
I have just returned from a 5 day trip to Guadalupe Island, Mexico to dive with the Great White sharks. I cannot recommend this trip enough if you like sharks and want to see them in their natural habitat. I was onboard the Nautilus Explorer which picks up/drops off out of San Diego, so it's a pretty easy place to get to. You don't need to be SCUBA certified as it's all surface supplied air. Cage time is virtually unlimited. I believe I had about 24 hours of time in the water over 3 days that we were onsite. You do need to be SCUBA certified if you want to go in the submersible cages, however as those are at 30ft deep. This is probably the best place to go to photograph great whites. You can dive with them in other areas of the world, but nowhere with this clear of visibility and this concentration of them in one place.
We had over 15 different sharks that we could identify over the 3 days with as many as 3 circling the cages at one time.
All shots are with an Olympus E-M5mkII in a Nauticam Housing with the Panasonic 7-14mm lens. I used natural light for just about every shot except for those of people inside the cage.31Sep 25, 2017 -
Nordic fightnight (boxing)
My first boxing event, and it was more fun than I expected.
12Oct 2, 2017 -
bugs in the mist, cross polarised
We don't often get good shooting conditions for bugs covered in water droplets here - weather's just not right most of the time. But I got lucky earlier this year - we had a cooler night at around 21c, with intermittent mist and drizzle, allowing for droplets to form on resting bugs and the occasional breaks let me get out to shoot them.
This bee fly must have some pretty impressively fast wings, since this was...21Oct 3, 2017 -
Vietnam via Darktable
A few shots from a trip earlier this year. Processed from ORF using the Windows build of Darktable.
12Sep 25, 2017
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