Slow Photography

"PASSAGE" "FALL INTO SPRING" Nikon's D810 camera has been my daily muse since July of 2014.   In the Bahamas this winter, I shot with Nikon's cheapest lenses on one of Nikon's best cameras. I've learned to play jazz with it. Well, not literally of course.  Going with the flow, being flexible with your photo process is a lot more fun than lugging heavy glass that you always worry about. Any guesses as to which lens it is? "NIKON D810 AND MYSTERY LENS"  ( lens # removed in post) I will reveal the answer at the end (unless you want to know now, and skip to the last photo). Nikon's cheapest lens is not perfect. It sells for as low as $10.99 on EBay. It's a 40-year old design, has egregious flare, focuses no closer than two feet, has some focus shift, distracting out-of-focus highlights, and has visible longitudinal chromatic aberration (purple fringing that is correctable with Lightroom). Lomo with a D810,

The photographer Jim Austin Jimages captures Junkanoo and its music, passion and personalities.   Feel the drums, the fire in “ya belly”, the rhythms of Junkanoo , the soul of the Bahamian people. Junkanoo dancers have costumes made of crepe paper, and their masks consist of colored cloth and leather. These stilt dancers, street dancers, clowns and acrobatic dancers are joined by bands playing powerful rhythms on goatskin drums, cowbells, bugles, horns, whistles and Queen conch shells. All the dancers spend months making their costumes by hand. Jim traveled to Nassau several times under sail, rowing ashore to meet the dancers at midnight on Bay Street, for this 9 image photo essay, "Portraits of Bahamas Junkanoo":   The next Junkanoo is Boxing Day December 26, 2015. Thousands will dance in the streets.  ____ The Photographer JIM AUSTIN JIMAGES is a teacher and writer. He sails from the Bahamas to Canada, living year-round