Posted in Cats, Photographers on May 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
I just saw this persian kitten up on flickr and had to post it. Gad. Check the entire set, it’s quite amazing. Anders Viklund seems to be a collector of these hairy beasts and he sure knows how to photograph them.
Posted in Flowers on May 30th, 2005 4 Comments »
These are more pictures from yesterday’s jaunt over to Nora’s nursery in Cornwall Bridge. Gary tells me this is a baby geranium.This is not only the same fuchsia plant I posted yesterday, but the same photograph, cropped to show a different flower.We ended up buying this baby and it’s hanging in the backyard. More on [...]
Posted in Flowers on May 29th, 2005 No Comments »
We made the first of many trips to Nora’s nursery to get flowers and vegetable starts for our gardens. I wasn’t feeling well today but decided to go along with both 50 and 100mm lenses and camera to attempt to learn how to do the soft focus flower photography of my favorite flickr photographer, rosemary. [...]
Posted in Birds on May 29th, 2005 4 Comments »
This is the same young blue jay that’s been on the feeder for months, among dozens of other blue jays that come. I know him because his tail’s got a problem in some of the center feathers. I’m pretty sure he’s young but my theorizing may be way off. I noticed here that his feet [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Stories on May 28th, 2005 No Comments »
In rummaging through a box of old stuff I found the porcelain “nut” that I’d scanned and posted here. Amazing how small it is but how big that other photograph makes it look. For the other photo I had a 55mm Micro Nikor lens which did not magnify as much as the 100mm macro I’m [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Stories on May 28th, 2005 No Comments »
I made and collected a lot of “things” when I was a potter in the late ’70s. If you click on this image it will take you to the flickr page on the picture and as you point to the different objects popup notes will give you a bit more info on them. In the [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on May 28th, 2005 No Comments »
The RAW Flaw is a great article in The Luminus Landscape on the history of the RAW file format for images and how the industry has not settled on standards which make processing RAW files more complex than it needs to be. (Via blog.photoblogs.org.)
Posted in Ideas on May 28th, 2005 No Comments »
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour: “The rise of podcasting is now enabling museumgoers to concoct their own unofficial audio guides and tours.” (Via NYT > Home Page.)
Posted in Cats on May 28th, 2005 2 Comments »
Hello Kitty, Hello Clone: “For $32,000, your next cat can be an exact copy of your last cat. And where cloned cats roam, cloned dogs are soon to follow.” (Via NYT > Business.)
Posted in Photography on May 27th, 2005 9 Comments »
If you use a high speed, high capacity Lexar compact flash card and use any Canon DSLR (Rebel, 20D, or their higher-end cameras) you need to carefully read the following links as there are problems that you will want to know about. I noticed this a while ago on my Rebel: if I take some [...]
Posted in Macro, Photographers on May 27th, 2005 No Comments »
My current favorite photographer on flickr is rosemary who lives in Japan, shoots with a Digital Rebel and, for most of the macros in her collection with a Tamron 90mm F2.8 lens. She is without a doubt a master of soft focus composition.
Posted in Macintosh on May 26th, 2005 No Comments »
David Pogue has written a nice piece: Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War. The Mac-Windows war, though, is especially pointless, protracted, and winnerless. There will always be people on each side who are every bit as rabid and un-convincible as those in any other religious war. Still, I’d like to suggest, as a starting point [...]
Posted in Humor on May 26th, 2005 1 Comment »
Store Wars will give you a nice giggle or maybe more if you’re a real Star Wars fan. Source: Bart Pisha
Posted in Ideas on May 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Time’s Up, Einstein: “His paper rocked the physics world — and the space-time continuum. Not bad for a college dropout who critics say may not even exist. By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine.” This is a terrific article which I read in the paper mag. A sub-thread is a commentary on marginalization: this kid doesn’t [...]
Posted in Ideas on May 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Salon’s Balancing Act: “By combining subscriptions with rich advertising, the opinionated news site finds a way to cut through the clutter of online ads, and is even closing in on profitability. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.” (Via Wired News.)
Posted in Art and Design on May 24th, 2005 No Comments »
I made these containers 30 years ago during my undergrad days at the University of Oregon Art and Architecture school. They are salt-fired stoneware with a temoku (dark iron) glaze that interacted with the salt. The experiment was mixing media. I was an art student but also a serious rock climber and loved climbing gear [...]
Posted in Ideas on May 24th, 2005 No Comments »
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense – Opponents…: “15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense – Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don’t hold up” (Via Justin Blanton Bits.)
Posted in Humor, Photographers on May 23rd, 2005 3 Comments »
From time to time I will be posting interesting photos that are in various flickr pools I’m a member of. This one caught my eye this morning.
Posted in Movies on May 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Recounting Skateboarding’s Upstart Days: “‘Lords of Dogtown’ is a big Hollywood production about a trio of scrappy skateboarders in the 1970′s who incidentally turned the sport on its head.” (Via NYT > Business.)
Posted in Ideas, Music on May 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
So Long, Garage Jammers. Nowadays Laptops Rock.: “Millions of people — trained musicians and amateurs alike — are using powerful laptop tools to produce music that once might have wailed out of a garage.” (Via NYT > Business.)
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