Shooting 500 Keepers at f/2.0 - Part 1
Peter Karbe, expert Leica lens designer, says that Leica lenses are designed to be shot wide open. Karbe says: “…shoot the lenses wide...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Halloween 2018
Halloween 2018 was a warm Fall day. The leaves were still mostly on the trees. Trick or Treating on The Lawn started at around 5 pm, and...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Halloween 2017
Halloween 2017 provided another beautiful Fall day for Trick or Treating on The Lawn. Revelers upped their game in 2017 with air...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Halloween 2016
Halloween 2016 was another crisp Fall day. The trees were halfway to winter. Leaves were piling up on The Lawn. Mostly, the tradition is...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Graduation 2017
On graduation morning, May 20, 2017, it was a perfect spring day. Students assembled on the north side of the Rotunda, while parents and...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Preparing Graduation 2017
It takes about a week. First, the ramps and fences go up. Then the bundles of folding chairs appear. The stage and video screens go up...
A Walk Around The Lawn - Solar Eclipse 2017
In Charlottesville, it rained on the day of the solar eclipse, August 21, 2017. By the time the clouds parted over The Lawn, the eclipse...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Halloween 2015
They come to The Lawn for Halloween - kids from around the city. The line funnels down the West Range, in front of the amphitheater,...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Springtime 2015
We pick up this post at the end of the previous one, and continue with a walk around The Lawn in the spring of 2015. The lede photo is an...
A Walk Around The Lawn: The Copper Top Rotunda
Prior to closing the Rotunda in May of 2014 for engineering upgrades and restoration, the dome was stripped for resurfacing in 2013. New...
