Visit The Photograpger's Place by Mark MacKinnon  
 
April 2012
The View
              The View Outer Banks NC                                                                                     � Mark MacKinnom
                   
The winter season down in Florida is long gone, as I've been home for 2 1/2 weeks now preparing for a couple shows out in Texas, then up to Oklahoma City, and finally at Kansas City, 4 shows on the road. All four will be a new adventure for me, it's always an adventure, new cities, people, and hope that the weather is kind enough not to blow us away!
 
May brings me back home in NY for a couple of shows I've been doing the last several years in Bethesda,  and then a Memorial day show out in Montauk, a favorite spot of mine.

On the way back from Florida and 10 shows from Jan-March, I stopped in the Outer Banks, North Carolina to do a shoot. I was rewarded with some incredible sights which I will be showing in Texas and for the rest of the year, as long long as it is well received. I love to shoot how man relates to the environment. The Dunes are a present day contemporary look at what happened that day at that moment with folks hiking out to check out the view. It's a study on how the environment dwarfs our perception of how we exist in the world. 


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     Mesmerized at show    �2012 MacKinnon 

This little girl sat right down in front of this framed piece that her mother had been contemplating, and could not take her eyes off it. I snapped a quick picture with an iphone, a moment frozen in time. The great thing about having a camera handy when things like this happen. Unfortunately many times, I see things and don't have a camera available, or it ends up being an iphone photograph. 

 

It sort of gave me the idea, that I needed to get a camera that I could have around with me all the time, without the burdensome weight I usually shoot with. I won't give up any time soon on the Hasselblad, in fact will be looking at the new Sony 38MP medium format rumored next year. But I did purchase a light weight, very small somewhat point and shoot-- the new Sony Nex-7. Released in limited supply, it has all the buzz of the websites and camera mags about how it can compete with the top of the line DSLR's. Comes with a 18-55 zoom, which I will replace with a Carl Zeiss 1.8 lens.  This camera has a  24.3 MP APS-C sensor, and is supplying Nikon with them in their D7000, but the Nex-7 is priced much lower, and practically fits into your pocket. People ask all the time, what camera would I recommend? Can't say Iv'e had enough time to try it out yet, but it looks promising.

 

-Mark MacKinnon 



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