Photosbypike

05/02/2026

I have talked with this gentleman when ever I pass him near the Christian Science reading room. He has made mention of my Vietnam Veterans hat and thanked me for my service. I am shooting OM 5 with Lumix 20mm lens, one of my sharpest lens. My OM 25mm is also this sharp, but much faster to focus. While I love the 20mm I have lost shots using it, never with the OM lens. The 17mm OM lens isn't as sharp, but the average person can't tell the difference. I made prints on my canon 300 printer and yes you can see that the 25mm is sharper than the 17mm, both OM lens. The major advantage of the 25mm over the 20mm is the weather sealing.

05/01/2026

I have been shooting photos since 1959, when I served in the Army in Germany. One of my buddies took me into a wet darkroom, on post, and I haven't put a camera down since. I shot with Nikon for almost 40 years, mostly with film and almost only in Black and White. So I have worked with Nikon, Lumix, Fujifilm and today I use the OM system.

I am going to use this site to educate and inform some of what I have learned in over the 60 years I have been taking pictures. First thing is that the first ten years are mostly trash, but I still keep them to understand how far both me and the film industry have come. The equipment I have today the OM-5 and m 4/3 lens are so much better than the equipment I started out with. Todays cameras are almost all good, and if you have a question about a camera, you can find reviews and instructions on Youtube.

I shoot in RAW and decide if I am going to process it as a color image or in B&W. I have my viewfinder turned to b&w, as that is how my eye was trained to see film. Sometimes though color in an image is why you took the photo. My images are not beautiful, but show the world I live in. I shot for two weekly news papers for ten years, so I am mostly interested in people doing something.

Here is a photo that shouts out the use of color. A man painting.

01/25/2026

01/25/2026

112.6K likes, 1889 comments. Check out Green Eyes’s post.

01/25/2026

2316 likes, 157 comments. Check out Tiki Dave’s video.

01/24/2026

Charlotte to be one of the hardest hit big cities during this storm.

Stock up and stay home during storm, emergency officials caution

11/28/2025

Europe is restoring the draft and Russia is thought to be planning for war by 2030.

France creates voluntary military service as Europe faces Russian threat

11/28/2025

Our boys are not that fat. I look at the food bags and see how much the cats should weigh and feed them that amount. And of course they let me get away with that.

1.2M likes, 13.8K comments. “dah macam bola.. kena diet”

11/26/2025

street photography. I have taken photos in uptown Charlotte since 1965. I was lucky to have been able to make money doing it, worked for a weekly newspaper for 10 years, had photos published in Our State magazine, Country magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Charlotte Observer and others as well as shooting over 50 weddings. To day I am retired from engineering, and spend time uptown when ever I can. I used to carry two Nikons and five lenses plus flash. Today I carry one small OM-5 and one lens, most often the 25mm (50mm equivalent) or the 17mm (35mm equivalent).