Yesterday the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act was signed into law. This designates roughly 310,000 acres of new wilderness in Colorado and 2 million acres nationwide. The new wilderness areas in Colorado are the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness (250,000 acres) and the Dominguez Canyons Wilderness (60,000 acres) which forms the heart of the new Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (210,000 acres total).
As a nature photographer and wilderness fan, I am happy to see these lands protected for future generations.
In a few weeks, I will return to the Dominguez Canyons for a 3-day backpack trip to explore some areas of the …

This is one of the first Canon 5D Mark II files I’ve done any significant work on. Its not anything spectacular, but I thought I’d post since the big 5D2 files are so nice to work with. This was taken during mid-day light, so I multi-processed 1 raw file into 4 exposures and blended them, did a little burn and dodge and boosted the contrast and saturation just a tad. With respect to the contrast and saturation of the 5D2 files, I’m really pleased with the way the files come straight out of the camera. Anyway, here is Boulder Falls …

Since I recently upgraded to the Canon 5D Mark II, I’m selling some of my previous gear. Follow the links for details.

Canon EOS 30D Body – SOLD
Tokina 12-24mm AT-X Pro DX for Canon EOS – SOLD

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I ran through an interesting exercise today – evaluating the autofocus microadjustment with the Canon 5D Mark II and 2 of my lenses – the 24-105mm f/4 L IS and the 70-200mm f/4 L. I used the test chart and technique described by Jeffery Friedl. It took about an hour, most of it reading and set-up. Once I started taking and evaluating the test images, it went quite quickly using Adobe Lightroom. I tested each lens at several focal lengths – 24mm, 50mm, 70mm, 105mm, 150mm, and 200mm.
The results? The 24-105mm was spot on and did not require any microadjustment …

I took delivery of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II yesterday. Throughout the day, in between work and family, I played with the camera and read through the manual. Here are some first impressions, likes, and dislikes…

I’m pleased with the overall build and ergonomics. Much of the button, wheel, dial layout is familiar (coming from the 30D).
The viewfinder is large and bright and the LCD is quite nice.
The menu redesign is much improved.
Live view is cool (coming from large format) and the grid, info and histogram overlays are fantastic. But you can’t shoot with mirror lock-up from live view? Bummer. …