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My friend Sandy and I go out from breakfast once in a while. Our friendship started with motorcycles but has expanded into photography and other things. It’s always a good time, and time that passes by too quickly. On this cold December day we sat by the windows of the Phoenix Cafe, basking in the early…

I am so 99% almost done with this story I can taste it. But I need to sleep, perchance to dream of the headings I need to finish the story.

Will someone please tell the phone makers that placing the flash close to the lens is the primary cause of red-eye?, a photo by john m flores on Flickr. I just noticed this, and realized that most camera phones make the same mistake of placing the flash close to the lens. I’d love to see…

Website The Photo Brigade recently featured the camera gear that I take on my motorcycle trips… In My Bag – by John Flores | The Photo Brigade

There’s nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. I’ve got one looming, so I better step away from the blog. But before I go, some picture for an upcoming story – a motorcycle trip from Las Vegas to Sturgis SD. These are from Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado: Pentax K-01 with DA 10-17…

We cross an ocean of grain in the mid-summer heat of one of the hottest years on record. In other words, it’s hot and there’s no place to hide. The road is a thick rubber band stretching from horizon to horizon and we’re in the company of other pilgrims on their way to Sturgis. Wyoming…

Winter is the time to hole up inside, go through the 35,000+ photos taken in the last 12 months, and find the ones worth salvaging… This one is in Sturgis SD during their big summer rally. Bikers come from all across the country to celebrate the biker lifestyle. We were a couple hundred miles away…

Something’s missing from this photo. Can you guess?

…but there are voices inside my head saying that Pentax will put a full-frame sensor in the K-02. 24Mp. FTW.

Found this one while stumbling through this year’s archives. I’ve taken nearly 40,000 photos this year – my biggest year to date. Granted, there was a bunch of time lapse in there, but that’s still a massive number. This was taken earlier in the year with a camera I no longer possess, the Panasonic GF2…