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Mixing Fish and Fowl

Ever since I received a Pentax K1000 about 40 years ago, I have been unaccountably drawn to photographing creatures of the wild

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Dan Perry
Sep 07, 2025
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I have previously written about how my parents bought me a Pentax K-1000, a “single-lens reflex” camera that seemed, to a teenager, like an instrument of sorcery. Suddenly I could freeze time, bend light, and change the scale of the world. A twist of the aperture ring gave me mastery over brightness; the shutter speed let me arrest motion or let it blur…

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