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Walking around Berkeley

I walked around Berkeley (really, mostly Shattuck and University) lugging the X-Pro2 along. 112 shots pared down to 19 that made it to editing, with 11 of those surviving that I'm more or less happy with.

2023 update: I'm importing this post from an old backup; I don't have the originals for these photos offhand, so they're the scaled down versions I had elsewhere.

I walked around Berkeley (really, mostly Shattuck and University) lugging the X-Pro2 along. 112 shots pared down to 19 that made it to editing, with 11 of those surviving that I'm more or less happy with.

All of these were shot with the Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 MF lens and post-processed in Lightroom.

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