Single-Serving Photo

Buchstabensuppe, by tillwe

For those of you Nikon shooters out there who ritualistically browse the B&H catalog and wonder What on Earth is a f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR DX lens, anyway?, now there is an answer for you, straight from our favorite bringer-of-technological-clarity, Bob Johnson at Earthbound Light.

In his post Nikon Lens Designation Alphabet Soup, Bob explains the meaning of all of those little acronyms that Nikon seems to throw around like confetti. At last, an understandable answer!

Today we wrapped up our “Colonial Cape Cod” workshop (I’m writing this in our little Radisson hotel room, just about to pack up and leave). Here’s a peek at Chris and one of our workshop participants admiring a pretty nice sunset on the National Seashore (taken with my 15mm fisheye lens):

As the sun got lower, the sky got even more interesting. Here’s one of the keepers from that group that I can show off because it’s my blog so I get to subject you to whatever I want:

Coming up, we’ve got a really cool workshop in Acadia National Park in Maine (that’s October 16th through 18th), and then in November we’ll be doing yet another one-day Boston workshop if anyone wants to walk around the freezing streets of Beantown and pick up some tips.