Tag Archives: canon 5d Mark II

unlearning an automatic reflex

DWI traffic stop with St. Louis County Police Officer Fred Yaakub, Canon 5D Mark II, ISO 5000,  1/100 @ F2.8, photograph by Erik M. Lunsford
There is a new saying out there — 2500 is the new 400.

Okay, I made that up, but it’s mentally cementing quickly.
Let me take you back nine years when I [...]

seen below, from above

No, it’s not a speck of dirt on the camera’s imaging chip, but rather the gorgeous photograph of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope during transit in front of the sun, courtesy of astrophotographer Thierry Legault, who traveled from Paris to Cape Canaveral to catch these fleeting photographs using his Takahashi refractors for large [...]