Longtime visitors to the site will know that each year, I go through the photos I’ve taken and select a group of images that I personally liked the best. They may not be the absolute best output of the year, but they’re the ones I like, for whatever reason.
2023 was an OK year for me photographically. I switched my kit over to Nikon partway through the year, and that was an interesting endeavor. I didn’t shoot nearly as much film this year as I did last year, with only two rolls shot early in the year. I plan to pick up my Mamiya C330 again for a fair few shoots in 2024, and I have a healthy stock of film in my posession.
While I didn’t have any incredible photographic trips or shots in 2023, I did have a fair few that I did enjoy, and I’ve presented a selection below, in chronological order. Click on any image to enlarge.
Roads to the City – DJI Air 2S @ f/2.8, 1.3s, ISO 200City Painter – Mamiya C330f with Mamiya-Sekor 55mm f/3.5, dark yellow filter, T-Max 400, Developed with HC-110Lower Falls, Hocking Hills State Park – Canon EOS R5 with RF 24-105mm f/4L @ 31mm, f/11, 3.2s, ISO 100Columbus in Spring – DJI Air 2S @ f/2.8, 1/100sChicago Wings – Canon EOS RP with Canon RF 14mm f/4L IS @ 14mm, f/11, 3 Shot HDRWrigley Building, Chicago, IL – Canon EOS RP with Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS @ 105mm, f/7.1, 1/25s, ISO 100Canon EOS R8 with Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS @ 16mm, f/9, 4s, ISO 100The Arcade, Cleveland, OH – Canon EOS R8 with Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift @ f/11, 1/500s, ISO 800Garfield Monument Stairs Canon EOS R8 with Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS @ 14mm, f/8, 1/20s, ISO 800Wading by the Waterfall Canon EOS R8 with Canon RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS @ 347mm, f/8, 1/50s, ISO 160Columbus – Nikon D750 with Nikkor F 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 24mm, f/8, 1/30s, ISO 100Quarry Docks – DJI Air 2S @ f/2.8, 1/50s, ISO 100Fallsville Creek – Nikon Z5 with Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S @ 28mm, f/16, 8s, ISO 100Railroad Spikes – Nikon Z7 II with Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 37mm, f/5, 1/200s, ISO 200Soft Blossoms – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S @ f/3, 1/250s, ISO 125Portrait – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4E @ f/1.4, 1/200s, ISO 64Cormorants – Nikon Z8 with Tamron Z 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III RXD @ 300mm, f/6.3, 1/160s, ISO 64 (APS-C Crop)Pickerington Ponds – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 56mm, f/16, ISO 64 (9 shots – 3×3 HDR + focus stack)Homecoming – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4E @ f/1.4, 1/160s, ISO 640Autumn Creek, Hocking Hills State Park, OH – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 24mm, f/11, 25s, ISO 64Great Falls at Tinker’s Creek – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S @ 14mm, f/9, 0.5s, ISO 64 (4 shot focus stack)Great Falls of Tinker’s Creek – Nikon Z8 with Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 26mm, f/16, 8s, ISO 64Dark-eyed Junco – NIkon Z8 with Nikkor Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S + 2x TC @ 800mm, f/9, 1/500s, ISO 8000Statehouse Rotunda – Nikon Z8 with Laowa 9mm f/5.6 FF II @ f/8, 1/20s, ISO 2000Pittsburgh, PA – Nikon Z8 with Voigtländer 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar: blend of two exposures at f/11 (buildings) and f/16 (water), ISO 64
Great photos as always. Thanks for sharing and writing. Love to see the whole range from family to landscape and events…basically that is my life too. So to me pretty inspirational.
Thanks for the review. Was considering this lens but would be hard to choose it over the Loxia, which has…
Thank you very much. Very precise and full of details !
My new OM-3 viewfinder is bright and images are crisp. I think the viewfinder criticism is overblown. Maybe use the…
That’s a false comparison Babby. That was then, this is 2025 at $2,000 USD.
The point isn’t that no one can use a low resolution viewfinder. The point is that this is a $2,000…
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