Author: Erik Williams

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From the “This Could Have Been Real Ugly” Dept:
Photography Tips

From the “This Could Have Been Real Ugly” Dept:

I’d rather a $20 UV filter have a bad day rather than the $1,400 lens it was attached to! :) I accidentally lost grip on the camera bag and it hit the bleachers hard enough to crack the UV filter that was on my older 70-200mm f/2.8 lens which I discovered whilst switching from the 300mm f/4. The lens was perfectly fine finishing Nick’s lacrosse game without the filter on it. I’ll transplant a 77mm…

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29 Mar 2019
From the “Just Once In My Lifetime” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Just Once In My Lifetime” Dept:

As much as I love my home state of NC…I’m so hoping that UCF will beat Dook this afternoon and make it to the Sweet 16. Who knows what can happen with one of Coach K’s kids on the other side of the scorer’s table… :) UPDATE: They darned near did in the Dookies but ultimately fell 77-76 and scared the heck out of Coach K and his boys. Good job! :)

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24 Mar 2019
From the “Every Season Starts With A Really Awkward Store Name” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Every Season Starts With A Really Awkward Store Name” Dept:

Imagine you’re driving to the sporting goods shoppe to get the final bit of kit for your oldest son who is aspiring to play lacrosse. Now imagine that you’re about halfway there when you have the somewhat horrifying thought that the store’s name seems a rather unfortunate coincidence when the kit we are buying is meant to help keep him from occasionally singing soprano! No wonder the register crashed with a segmentation fault…my mind was…

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02 Feb 2019
From the “Apparently It’s National Comfort Food Day” Dept:
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From the “Apparently It’s National Comfort Food Day” Dept:

This is a holiday I can certainly support wholeheartedly and thanks to agreeable pricing on green peppers…it was definitely time to get my Magyar on! So the headliners are töltött paprika (stuffed peppers and my personal favourite) and töltött káposzta (stuffed cabbage). And when I'm done stuffing peppers and cabbage, then it's time to do some egg noodles and shred the remaining cabbage for káposzta és tészta which works well with kielbasa. Putting them together…

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21 Jan 2019
From the “Eclipses Totally Rock” Dept:
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From the “Eclipses Totally Rock” Dept:

The coolest thing for me is when the moon moves into the umbra, you're effectively getting the reds from every sunrise and sunset simultaneously being bent by the atmosphere toward the lunar surface. These aren't the greatest shots you'll see but I'm pretty OK with them being somewhat noisy considering that I was sitting in a deck chair and handholding the D810 which had the 200-500 f/5.6 lens fitted with a 2x teleconverter and shooting…

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21 Jan 2019
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