Archives for January 2015

My acquain­tance, Robert Mark Campbell (he goes by “Mark”), recently adopted a 5-year-old cairn ter­rier after his long­time ther­apy dog, Mr. Miyagi, died. Her name is Mayella Okra, or Okra for short. […]

My friend Jaime Ladd coör­di­nates an “adven­tur­ous din­ers” group on a pop­u­lar social media plat­form; one of the group members

In con­tin­u­ing to learn the ins and outs of my recently acquired Paul C. Buff “Einstein” (model E640) stu­dio strobe, I’m teach­ing myself to meter flash. My Sekonic L-308S Flashmate expo­sure meter has 3 mea­sur­ing modes: Ambient, Auto Reset Cordless Flash, and Cord Flash. For this light­ing test, I used the Auto Reset mode, since the […]

I bought a used Paul C. Buff “Einstein” (model E640) stu­dio strobe just before Christmas; the pack­age arrived on New