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Youth soccer is almost over. It’s been fun to watch how the players’ skills have progressed over the course of the season. And it’s starting to get chillier, so with the clouds and the impending gloomy storm I decided to process accordingly. It’s like I’m channeling English weather or something.

Goal, a photo by john m flores on Flickr. I think I was toying with my smartphone when I heard a crescendo of screaming. I look up to see Matthew streaking past the defenders and towards the goal. I quickly pick up the Nikon 1, point and click. This is what I got.

Via Flickr:It’s old school Italian. Very nice.

Via Flickr:It’s old school Italian. Very nice.

An ancient, crappy Pentax K20d with a seriously deficient APS-C sensor took this really awful photo. I really should just burn it.

Pentax Q, late at night, after the opening of a friend’s photography show. A bunch of us, mostly photogs and other visual/creative types, are having a beer and some ribs at Dinosaur BBQ. The Q sits quietly on the table until it’s called upon, then it’s all ISO3200, manual focusing, and just trying to grab…

Pentax Q @ ISO3200 in a Mexican restaurant lit primarily with holiday lights shaped like little jalapeño peppers. The Q really hits a good spot for me – a small, camera that I can carry everywhere. I am rediscovering the idea that the maniacal pursuit of “image quality” is a rabbit hole and can actually…

Ok, I’m sitting here at my desk with like a million things to do and two million lame excuses not to do them. “I know – instead of getting some work done, I’ll conduct a memory card test! That’s the ticket – some guy on the Internet asked about what memory card to buy for…

I gotta tell you, I love my little town. As a kid, I used to come and watch theTour of Somerville, the oldest bicycle race in the country. It was fun, but the town seemed to lack something…a spark. That spark was the vibrancy of downtown commerce. A mall had opened up about a mile…

Logan playing soccer, a photo by john m flores on Flickr. Oh, Panasonic 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6! You are such a zoomy lens yet no bigger than a can of soda. You reach across the soccer pitch so easily and throw the background mildly out of focus. And you lend a hand in holding steady. So nice,…