

Early morning view from Zabriskie Point: Ubehebe Crater, late afternoon:


In one of his recent blog entries, the distinguished photographer Jim Zuckerman observes that the sun can be made salient in a composition by the use of super-telephoto lenses. That reminded me of something similar I had done last year on the island village of Divar in Goa. I had both the 300L f/4 IS...


In the realm of Portraiture, two lenses in the Canon line-up – EF 85mm f/1.2 L II and EF 135mm f/2 L – have attained occult status for their superlative optical performance and for the creative possibilities they open. The 85L II lens was primarily conceived as a portrait lens. Not the fastest autofocus arrow...