Articles filed in The Lumix Diaries.
Lumix Diaries: Night Skies with MFT Cameras
Night Skies with MFT Cameras One of most enjoyable aspects of photography is I’m always learning something new, like night skies with MFT cameras. Here in New Zealand the group and I spent an evening shooting night skies. New Zealand is supposed to have the darkest skies on Earth, but… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries Goes To Cuba
Lumix Diaries Goes to Cuba With A Photo Lesson A Day One of the things I want to start doing is sharing more information about how I shoot certain images. Our Natural Exposures Invitational Photo Tours keep me on the road taking pictures for as many as ten months of… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries: Macro Made Easy
There’s been a great deal of interest lately in a macro image I posted to Facebook. The picture was a close up of a beautiful orchid showing its soft pastel colors and elegant form. The technique is quite simple and easy to replicate with minimal equipment. The key to doing this right is… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries: Shooting the New Leica Lumix 12mm F/1.4
Shooting the New Leica Lumix 12mm F/1.4 This past February when I visited the Panasonic headquarters in Osaka, Japan, I spent time with engineers discussing many ideas and features for upcoming cameras. On the meeting room table were a few things I can’t discuss, but one item that’s now been announced… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries Sharks with Lumix TS5 Underwater Camera
Lumix Diaries Lemon Sharks with Lumix TS5 Underwater Camera Amazingly, there is not a lot to share on the technical side of this image. I simply put it on P (program) with AF and let the camera handle everything else. This image was shot with the Lumix TS5, an older version… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries Dancing with Fire
Two days ago I saw this interesting local native man down by the dock. With a little inquiry I found he was a traditional dancer, with a body covered in traditional tattoos. Did you know the word tattoo originated in French Polynesia? I did some checking and found a way to… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries Comes to Instagram
Lumix Diaries Comes to Instagram In my ongoing effort to share as many Lumix Diaries with our Natural Exposures audience as possible, I’ve decided to join Instagram. Type in Instagram and Daniel J. Cox into Google’s search bar and you’ll see numerous posts about my dislike for Instagram’s Terms of… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries Leica 100-400mm Samples
I’ve decided to share some images from the new Leica 100-400mm lens in this Blog post. There has been a lot of interest and requests from my readers to see full-sized, high resolution images ever since the assignment I was given to produce ad materials for then new Leica 100-400mm zoom. Sharing full-sized,… Read More »
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Lumix Diaries: Shooting the New Leica Lumix 100-400mm
Today, January 5, at 10:00am Vegas time, Panasonic finally announced the ability to order the new Leica Lumix 100-400mm zoom. It’s a professional quality lens I’ve been dreaming about ever since I started getting serious about the Lumix line of cameras nearly six years ago. Today is the day we can go… Read More »
Read article →The Lumix Diaries Shoots the Blood Moon in South Africa
The Lumix Diaries Shoots the Blood Moon in South Africa This morning we were up at 3:00am to get prepared for the coming Blood Moon show that started around 3:15am. We scouted a site not far from our lodge the night before. I explained to our Explorers that my vision… Read More »
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Lumix Luminary Summit Glancing Back Looking Forward with Lumix GX8
Lumix Luminary Summit Glancing Back Looking Forward with Lumix GX8 June 28, 2015 How does one truly appreciate what you are given? I’m certain most of us have all been there. Going about your everyday life when a vision from the past stops you cold. For me, this early morning… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries With High Arctic Polar Bears
July 14, 2015 – Oslo, Norway The Lumix Diaries with high arctic polar bears. It’s been three days since we arrived in Oslo. Tanya and I like to be on our destination continent at least two days before our guests arrive. There’s nothing worse than feeling the physically debilitating effects… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Costa Rica Macro Shoot
Have spent the last two nights shooting macro photography here in Costa Rica. This is my first year shooting nothing but the Lumix system and what a joy it is to carry such a lightweight and easy-to-use macro system. Gone is the difficulty of having to get on my belly… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Heads to Patagonia
The Lumix diaries heads to Patagonia. Tanya and I recently left Kenya for the southern hemisphere. Our destination? The region known as Patagonia. All of our Patagonia adventures begin in Buenos Aires where we get everybody on the same page by spending a day in the city photographing the wonderful… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries 1/19/2015 Lions and Hyenas Clash
January 19, 2015 The morning began as it always does from our camp in the Mara. 6:45am rolled around and footsteps were heard on the path to our tent. From out of the cool morning air came a hushed, delicate, voice announcing “good morning, good morning, your coffee is here,… Read More »
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What are The Lumix Diaries?
The Lumix Diaries are a compilation of travel adventures from around the world highlighting my experience with Panasonic Lumix cameras. I’ll be pushing my Lumix equipment to the limits, capturing stills and video, that convey interesting stories of travel and conservation. The Lumix line is young, but the benefits of the… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries 1/13/2015 Cheetah Chase
The first part of our adventure took us to the dry, brushy landscape of Samburu National Park. I’ve been here maybe a half dozen times and it’s always a wonderful place for many subjects, but especially elephants. This year has been no exception, but the highlight of our three days in Samburu was a cheetah chase… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Kenya 1/10/2015
Whenever we come to Kenya we like to give our guests a day to acclimate from the jet lag we all experience when traveling many times zones from home. So today we spent time at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Center, both places just outside of Nairobi. Most of the photography… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Heads to Kenya
January 9, 2015 The Lumix Diaries begins 2015 in my favorite African country of Kenya. I’ve been coming to Kenya almost every year since 1991 and I never get tired of this wonderful country, its wildlife and its people. This adventure finds me even more entrenched in the Lumix system which I’ve… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries LX100 Colorado Avalanche and Nate MacKinnon
The Lumix Diaries LX100 Colorado Avalanche and Nate MacKinnon. This past two weeks of the Christmas season has been a whirlwind of family activity. The gift of being together is better than anything I could ever imagine under the Christmas tree. Along with family comes the opportunity for lots of pictures but… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Canadian Rockies Fall Colors Tour
The Lumix Diaries Canadian Rockies Fall Colors Tour. Below are twenty five of my favorite pictures. September 27, 2014 Just arrived at the gorgeous Delta lodge in Kananaskis Country of Alberta, Canada. We left Calgary early this afternoon and had an hour drive into the fabulously breathtaking Canadian Rockies. We arrived… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries: Adventures in the Pantanal (Continued)
The Lumix Diaries Adventures in the Pantanal (Continued) is an update to what I started writing a little over a week ago. I had high hopes of being able to keep up with photography, helping our Explorers, and writing the Blog during this time. Alas, I’m a bit behind on the… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries: Adventures in the Pantanal
August 2, 2014 – Pantanal Brazil The Lumix Diaries Adventures in the Pantanal. It’s our first full day at the lodge in the Pantanal of Brazil. I’m here with a group of enthusiastic photographers who are part of our Brazil Pantanal Jaguar Wildlife Photo Expedition Invitational Photo Tour. Before I left… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries: Adventures in Alaska
The Lumix Diaries Adventures in Alaska post is a compilation of a recent month long shoot in our 50th state. I’ve chosen not to write a day to day description since a lot of wildlife and nature photography can be very boring and uneventful. What I have included are the highlights… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Takes in Minnesota Twins Baseball
The Lumix Diaries takes in Minnesota Twins Baseball. Yesterday afternoon I was taking a nap at my sister’s place in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. My wife Tanya comes in and says, “Hey hon, Doug has eight tickets to the Twins for tonight. They’re playing the White Sox. We’re going to see… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Italy – Final Update June 9th
The Lumix Diaries Italy is my first of what will be an ongoing diary/journal of sorts detailing my travels with the Panasonic Lumix camera system. This first installment will chronicle our Natural Exposures Invitational Photo Tour to Italy. Currenly all of my travel photography is now shot virtually exclusively with the smaller, lighter Micro… Read More »
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