Small Sensor Photography by Thomas Stirr

This announcement article provides readers with some advanced information and details about our website rebranding which is currently underway. Back in July 2019 we rebranded our photography website to better reflect our transition to the M4/3 system, while also recognizing our past work with Nikon 1. The rebranding to Small Sensor Photography has served us …

This article discusses opportunity cost as a life skill, and how using this approach can help keep us centred on what is important to us. Assessing opportunity cost in our decisions can help unlock more of our personal potential.  Our lives are the products of the decisions we’ve made in the past. Opportunity costs that …

This article shares some one handed macro flash test images of butterflies recently captured at the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory. NOTE: Click on images to enlarge. To read this article in a range of other languages click on the Canadian flag in the upper right corner. As regular readers know, I typically prefer natural lighting for …

This article discusses how our goals may impact gear choice, and why there isn’t a single camera format that is the ‘best’ for everyone. Heated internet ‘discussions’ about gear choices have been around for decades. The amount of time, energy and emotion that has been wasted in on this topic boggles the mind. NOTE: Click …

The 5 Why Analysis has long been used as a technique to identify the root cause of a problem, most commonly when dealing with quality issues. Rather than making assumptions and jumping to conclusions, the 5 Why Analysis digs deeper into potential causes, often with facts, data and logic. This analytic approach was developed by …