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Posted on January 2, 2024, 4:21 pm, by QT Luong, under
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In 2023, I mostly continued last year’s break. I focused on photographing close to where I live but also started to get back to faraway trips. I shifted to photography near home for many reasons. On the personal side, I wanted to spend more time with family, and also reduce my environmental footprint. There were […]
Posted on February 28, 2023, 8:34 pm, by QT Luong, under
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I have too much gear in my closet that others could put to good use: Sony, Canon, etc… email me for photos, more details, or to make an offer. Sony Alpha Sony/Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS. $445. Designed by Zeiss, this was the best of the first-generation Sony zooms. An excellent lens, […]
Posted on January 22, 2023, 11:25 pm, by QT Luong, under
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Today is our Lunar New Year, the Tết 2023 – a word infamous in American history for the 1968 offensive during the Vietnam War. From our family to yours, happy new year, and may your dreams come true. As implied by its name, Lunar New Year is based on the lunar calendar, which is the […]
Posted on January 6, 2023, 12:56 am, by QT Luong, under
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This year, I took a break. Please bear with me for a little digression. Many photographers limit their websites to a few hundred images. They believe that they must show only photographs that meet their standards of perfection, and that quantity is inversely correlated with quality. This has never been my approach, and not only […]
Posted on January 1, 2022, 8:33 pm, by QT Luong, under
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Like many, I had high hopes for 2021, but things did not turn out as well as we hoped on both fronts of civic life and the pandemic. The latter is only one of the reasons that this year, I traveled and photographed less than any year going back all the way to the 1990s. […]
“Flip-ma” is how you pronounce the acronym for the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976. Today marks its 45th anniversary. What is it, and why should we care? America’s public lands represent 640 million acres, managed by four different agencies. The oldest of them is the US Forest Service (USFS), established in […]
Posted on January 1, 2021, 1:47 pm, by QT Luong, under
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While 2020 has been a challenging year, I am grateful to have been able to find a bit of comfort, hope, and escape in our public lands. For the first time in decades, I spent almost no time in the national parks. Instead, I traveled for several weeks in national monuments, working on my forthcoming […]
Posted on June 12, 2020, 4:41 pm, by QT Luong, under
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At the start of 2020, nobody could have imagined that we’d see the pandemic flu of 1918, great depression of 1929, and riots of 1968 rolled into the first half of a single year. They are all linked together. Although it has been a time of fear and anxiety, I kept posting about photography and […]
Posted on January 1, 2020, 10:07 pm, by QT Luong, under
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2019 was an eclectic year bookended by two new national parks. In between, I visited several national monuments and resumed international travel. Links below point to blog posts with more images and details. in February, Indiana Dunes became the 61st national park. This was a challenging time for me, since not only it was the […]
Posted on November 28, 2019, 8:09 pm, by QT Luong, under
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Today is a day to remember what we should be thankful for. While I have many people and things to be grateful for both in my personal and professional life, this autumn, I am simply happy to be alive and in good health. On Sept 30, half an hour after dropping off nine large framed […]
