There is a pretty neat phenomenon that occurs when you start using one of Gary Fongs flash diffusers. It’s not the fact that you notice how many others in your industry use them. It’s not the fact that your flash images become quite amazing with greater control. And it’s not the act that you are overwhelmed with the desire to buy the entire collection once you’ve tried just one.

No, it’s not any of these. It’s the fact that if you blog about Gary Fongs products you will become acutely aware of the fact that you are now being visited by a familiar and recurring ip address as a result of the same set of key words. That’s right; you become a regular stop in Gary Fongs vanity search. Gary Fong himself has laid eyes on my site, which is really cool even if it is only to see what we (photographers) are saying about the whale tail or light sphere. How do I know it’s him? I didn’t until he wrote about it on his blog a while back (the actual post escapes me now), admitting that he does such searches to see what the views and reviews are saying. So that’s when I went back and checked the ip’s of all hits on my site that had to do with Gary Fong related searches, and sure enough about 99% of them were the same. Hey we all do it, right?

So what about that WhaleTale review I have been promising for so long? It’s coming. It’s taking a while because I shoot with it on all the time (yes, even my recent outdoor weddings) and can’t bring myself to remove it for comparative studies. And now that LightSphere Universal and The Origami are due out soon I would love to get my hands on those so I can compare all three! Gary, if you are reading this, I would LOVE to get my hands on these two new products…

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