Posted on March 27, 2007 by Ranjay Mitra
I am sieving though hundreds of chromes of California Poppies – some of them were in full bloom a week back when the temperature was high. I did get some great perspectives of these poppies against the clear blue sky.
The Don Edwards Refuge have scattered poppies and the flats around Coyote hills have a square [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2007 by Ranjay Mitra
I have been shooting a lot again, and that’s wonderful. And I am shooting film again and the new digital baby has started to gather dust – which is not so wonderful. While I have shot for a few days with the long Nikon 400 mm VR, with the blooming of the flowers and the [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2007 by Ranjay Mitra
I posted this article on my website a few weeks back and I am posting it here to raise some more awareness to save the Metalmark Butterflies:
Also called the Lange’s Metalmark after late William H Lange Jr., the UC Berkeley entomologist and UC Davis professor, who first identified this butterly in 1930, this grey [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2007 by Ranjay Mitra
For almost 2 years I have been worried about developing my films. Not only have I tried a lot of commercial developers but more frequently have I promised not to go back to the last one! It was very frustrating waiting for days for my chromes to come back and then not be able to [...]
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