Glenn Calvin Photography

"Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people." - Harvey Mackay

Want a background like mine? I just added free mobile and 4k downloads to a digital bundle on my site. Get them at the link in my bio, you'll find them listed under the prints for this photo! These are cut from the original HQ image, much higher quality than what I share here!

Having just opened it up, it does appear to need a little bit of replacement light seal foam. Will have to do that before I take it out.

$45 on the EvilBay got me a nice enough example of a Canonet 28 rangefinder 35mm camera built in the year of my birth! It needs a little cleaning up and a fresh PX625 battery, but it seems to operate flawlessly!

@admired_art Indeed.

Photographers, got any butterfly shots to share?

@TomcatJunkie Ugh. Not looking forward to travelling through there on Friday. PRC-DEN-ORD-MDT. Gonna be a long day no matter what.

I picked the wrong day to fly into Chicago.

Unacceptable air show forecast. I like the temps, but get that rain outta there, Harrisburg! The @BlueAngels need to fly!!!

Dear Japan, I will not ask you to excuse this indiscretion. I believe disrespectful tourists of every nationality deserve your contempt. I hope you prosecute them to the fullest extent of your laws and forbid them from evr returning.

@sakuraing64 737-800!!😍

伊丹スカイパークの美しい夜を

@thestinkeye @GeoGDF01 @TomcatJunkie I’ve been unfortunate enough to have my camera at three different airshows where fatal crashes occurred. None since my film-photography days. I think now, what I’d do is offer them only to the team investigating the accident.

Not until an appropriate amount of time had passed. The pics from the Galloping Ghost mishap are haunting and somehow still amazing. Burying them would have been a crime. If I ever die in some spectacular fashion and someone gets good pics/video of it, I give the photographer my permission to post them AFTER the funeral.

If you were photographing an airshow and there was a fatal crash would you post your photos / video?

A 2014 five-image HDR capture of Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy museum in Chantilly, VA. Nikon D3 and AF NIKKOR 14mm f/2.8 at ISO 2000.

@NoFrankingWay @MakapuuDreams @oeingoboeing I’m good. Not super different from the Z7II I traded up from, nor is it from their pro-level DSLR’s I’ve been using for 20 years. Got it all set up the way I like now, and I’m headed to Harrisburg, PA next week for the air show with it.

@MakapuuDreams @oeingoboeing 🫡 glad to help out anyone with the Z8. Had it since it came out. I must have 500,000 on it already. I should check

I love having a 3D printer. In 20 minutes I can turn 15g of filament into items that aren’t available anywhere locally and would take days to get if ordered online, like these Canon FD-mount body and lens caps.

A Southwest Airlines 737-3H4 departs Burbank Airport during an epic sunset in 2008. @fly_BUR

良い休日を！ #千里川土手　#伊丹空港

@sennri_dote My favorite! 737!! 😍 On my next trip to Japan, I will get to that location to take my own photographs.

Knife-edge! Red Bull Air Race San Diego, 2008. Just enough prop blur for me to like this image. I wish the shutter speed had been a bit slower.

From Red Bull Air Race San Diego, 2008.

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun. The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

Another re-edit from the same 2008 outing using the same D3/50mm+tubes setup. 1/400th at F/8 and ISO 800.

The above was taken with my Nikon D3 and Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4D with those cheap-o extension tubes behind it. 1/160th at F/10 and ISO2000.

In 2008, I took a day trip to the Los Angeles Arboretum on a rainy, overcast day. At the time, the extent of my macrophotography capabilities consisted only of a set of three inexpensive extension tubes, but I was still able to capture a few interesting images. A re-edit: