By Paul Barclay | Review
Welcome back to my post-repair review of the Leica SL2 and a selection of third-party lens. In this section we will be looking at the Zeiss 35mm f1.4 ZM Distagon lens, which many readers here at Dear Susan fondly known as “Audrey”. The lens was mounted on the Leica “M Adapter L”, which is Leica’s […]
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By Paul Barclay | Review
Welcome back to my review of the post repair Leica SL2 and a select lens. In this section we will be looking at the Nikon 50mm f1.4 AIS lens mounted on an inexpensive Fotasy “NK-L L” adapter, because in my email conversations with Pascal I mentioned that it renders very nicely in the SL2 and […]
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By Paul Barclay | Review
This article is going to be a bit of a departure from my usual efforts at showing a travel location in a different light, usually infra-red. But first, we need to have a little background. For the past 6-8 months our Fearless Leader (Pascal) and I have been having an email conversation about our cameras […]
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By Paul Barclay | Travel Photography
It has been quite some time since my last contribution to Dear Susan, so I thought I would share some of my images from an infrared photography workshop I recently attended that took place in Joshua Tree National Park (JTNP), which is located North East of Palm Springs, California, near the towns of Joshua Tree […]
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By Paul Barclay | Travel Photography
This past March we once again made the journey from Seattle to Tucson, Arizona, for some sun and heat therapy. Shortly after arriving in Tucson we needed to travel North to Phoenix to join friends and family for lunch. During the drive north I spotted these road side attractions that are captured here. Except I […]
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By Paul Barclay | Travel Photography
My apologies to everyone for dropping out for so long. I hope to get this series back in gear as well as bring new images from the summer in the next few months. The sub-title for this article is; “A Day of Tourism!” Because, aside from the natural wonders of Southern Arizona, there are some […]
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By Paul Barclay | Travel Photography
Good morning class, this is my report about what I did on my spring vacation. As you probably noticed, this is part one of several. I don’t know the total number parts it will be, because I haven’t written them yet. In fact, I haven’t really started reviewing the images yet. Covid, and the aftermath […]
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By Paul Barclay | How-To
This article is inspired by Pascal’s article regarding the large format look. It is also partially because I am not satisfied with my comments to Pascal’s article. Large format has a “look”, and as I mentioned in my comment, I am not sure that I really remember what that look is. So, I opened my […]
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By Paul Barclay | Art & Creativity
This article is in response to Pascal’s call for photographic adventures in the time of Covid. Like many of us I have felt constrained and in need of something new photographically. As you can imagine this resulted in a serious case of GAS. The only problem with is was, due to Covid, every other photographer […]
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By Paul Barclay | Art & Creativity
The images included in this post are a continuation of the window shopping series I shared a few months ago. I was planning to share the color versions of the earlier series. But a few days ago I met a friend for a photo walk, and after we parted, I stopped in the Queen Anne […]
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