George is a humble man and he doesn’t like to tell other people what to do. Plus, he mumbles a lot. To learn from him, you have to sit near  him and listen as he runs through the settings and angles and mechanics he is employing to take a photo, in this case with a homemade 200 mm macro lens he build out of glass and metal scraps – he had to take it apart yesterday because it had a spiderweb in it. He got some parts on E-bay and built a converter so he could use it on the Canon Digital Camera I bartered with him in exchange for one of his classic photos.

George does things with exposure that nobody can do, even with a digital camera, but he can’t really explain how he does it, you just have to listen to the stream of consciousness that emerges from when he starts thinking about a photo, he holds the camera up and down about a dozen times, trying different settings until he gets the one he likes. You can look at his wonderful work here.

We never did get the glint of light off of the crystal that we wanted, we came close though and we had fun.