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FLIP-MA?

Posted on October 21, 2021, 8:56 am, by QT Luong, under Locations, Uncategorized.

“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 […]

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Tripod Tales – (almost) all the tripods I have used and what I’ve learned about them

Posted on October 14, 2021, 11:32 pm, by QT Luong, under Gear.

When I photographed in the Alps in the early 1990s, I didn’t even own a tripod. My camera support of choice was a clamp that could attach to the adze of an ice-ax. Upon arriving in America in 1993, one of my first purchases was a tripod. Many photographers have wasted money by starting with […]

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