Arizona in winter

Turns out to be rather pretty, with snow adding a lot of variety to the otherwise very "red" canyon landscapes.

I also had a new lens to try: I'm now using a 10mm lens (yes, really) on a full-frame body (Sony A7). This is a rectilinear lens, not a fisheye, so I wanted the widest possible, and this is the best I could find. It was meant for APS-C sensors, so I crop all pictures square to get rid of the lens hood.. which I guess makes them more like 11mm in "angle". Turns out square is a good match for extreme rectilinear perspective, since it means the distortion is more equal in all directions compared to 3:2.

This lens is an experiment for me to see if I can live without fisheye, and enjoy a different kind of wide. It makes people look even more wonky than fisheye, but it is great for buildings and objects, making things look very dynamic without the fisheye bulging. Square pictures are obviously not the best for landscape photography, but some cool results nevertheless.

Also joined the hip kids and shoot in raw nowadays. I like the added control to fix shots later. I use this software.

Also was carrying the Ricoh Theta S (upgraded from the regular Theta I had), and made some gridpics of course.

(order of pictures below is a bit random, blogspot's editing tools are pretty medieval).

And two more..

The first one of Chris's apartment is an experiment of putting more of the person in the picture, which I think adds a lot. The second one our current apartment, which is not ideal material because it is L-shaped, but good for posterity sake :)

Another house map!

Sorry for not posting here not very often, but I guess I've become like everyone else and mostly post on social media noways :( But this one is too good to miss:

It's a friend's house in sf, shot entirely with.. the iPhone 6! Turns out that generated better pictures than my more "professional" camera for this purpose. It's also the first such map with square pictures. I also took a bit more care in making things line up, and in not having washed out direct sunlight when possible.

Go here for a higher res version: http://strlen.com/photography

Blame Canada

Vancouver, Vancouver Island and Whistler!
Fisheye panoramas, extreme zoom, and not much in between :)