Idiot Savant

This topic is right up my lane. I think I've touched on it before myself. I have a ton of boats. Let's stick with solo boats, since...

I went to video, for a while, back when video cameras recorded on tape. Now, trying to watch the tapes is pretty inconvenient and wish...

Before digital, if you wanted to get your photos published, they needed to be slides. That's what the publishers wanted. Print film...

My first camera was an all manual Canon film camera with a 50mm prime lens. This would have been about 1976. I had several other film...

I think the second reason, I got out of photography, was I no longer had people to share my photos with. My parents have passed, I...

There is a saying that applies to a lot of things. The best one is the one that you have with you. Long before camera phones and when I...

I had a friend that hiked the Continental Divide Trail. I followed his progress on an online journal. Occasionally, there was an attempt...

I think that's true, but it took more force to get it turned back downstream than it should have, but I think I'd concluded that I also...

The rule is bow heavy for paddling into the wind and stern heavy for paddling away from the wind. For a crosswind, you just have to...

Paddling my North Wind solo on the Green River, when I'd stop paddling, to take a photo or a drink, my canoe would tend to turn sideways...

I recently read a little web post about wolf vs. pitbull. The conclusion was the wolf would win easily. Then throw in the fact that...

I think one thing some of you are forgetting is that resolving power isn't just about the quality of the optics. If it's an hour after...

Where I do most of my canoeing, creepy crawlies are a lot more common that bears. I have hammocks but, so far, have never used one. To...

I don't know how recent a trend that is. Maybe just in your group and might reflect a loss of partners. I've been sleeping solo for...

I just got the OXK monocular. On the one hand, I'm pretty impressed with it. Seems well made and rugged, optics are good and it comes...