AquaLangs

I’ve recently returned to the sport of kayaking with a Feathercraft folding kayak. New York City has a extensive network of water trails, so there really is no need to practice the art of commando kayaking. On the other hand, I still retain a lot of that anti-authoritative mischievousness from my younger days and have no qualms with hopping over a fence or two with my backpack-able kayak in order to access some pristine waterscape. As the waters around NYC slowly recover from their heavily polluted and dredged past, certain populations have exploded, becoming pests rather than points of pride. Unmanicured impromptu boat launches are often peppered with these shellfish which can cut right through the skin of my kayak like a thousand little serrated blades.

Volcanoes in the tropics often produce black sand beaches right next to white sand ones. Through the brute force of the waves, the sand sometimes blends in patches like this one.

This untouched image made me fall in love with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 lens. For me, this photo is all about what is not in focus. I was immediately impressed by the creamy, painterly blur this glass produces wide open, although the Noct Nikkor version, (which costs ten times that of my standard version,) is necessary for any night-time shooting as this standard 50mm f/1.2 lens suffers from a great deal of coma.