My main bag is a MindShift Gear Backlight 18L backpack.  It’s not quite big enough for me to pack all of my gear for a long trip, but it’s sized perfectly for me…

Dan’s right (don’t tell him I said that), without my tripod I couldn’t make the types of images I like to make. It’s big and heavy but let’s us shoot in low light conditions.

While Dan took what seemed to be a long break from using drop-in filters, I never gave them up. His lessened need for graduated neutral density filters due to what and how he photographed made it fine for him (though he has obviously conceded defeat and returned to the Way)….

There are a lot of nice monitors out there for viewing images destined for the web. But if you want to print, you need one you can calibrate. Our Ben Q monitors calibrate via hardware instead of software and we love them!

Printing images comes with its own steep learning curve, and it’s really not fun when things don’t work out right.  But when they do, there is something really satisfying about holding something physical in the hand.

Image quality is largely about the optics and the sensor. Fortunately, Fujifilm makes some pretty good glass (just ask Hasselblad!), and we own our fair share of it.