Posted in Aerial Photography on Jul 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Above New Jersey. Our flight hit the east coast about halfway down the New Jersey shore, traveled a few miles out over the Atlantic and then turned north toward Long Island and Kennedy Airport.
The heat haze made photography difficult but the contrast on the few fully-formed clouds in the haze was actually quite beautiful and [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jul 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Over the Midwest, US. Small clouds low to the ground in the mid-afternoon cast wonderful shadows which, seen from above make cloud photographs much more interesting. Over the years that I’ve been flying and looking out the window I’ve noticed that clouds seem to follow natural changes in the landscape: mountains, hills, and in this [...]
Posted in People on Jul 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. My 91 year old mother got excited when she saw how many people looked at her gmail piece and asked me to take a better image of her. She was all dressed up to go up to the Getty museum for dinner so it was really a matter of getting the right [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, People on Jul 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Ed Burns: Risky Business: “In 1995, Ed Burns made a small movie called “Brothers McMullen” for $25,000. With its moving story and compelling characters, it went on to earn millions. 11 years later, even with the stardom that came with his first success, Burns still believes that nothing beats a good story. “The Groomsmen,” made [...]
Posted in Macintosh, People, Social Software on Jul 28th, 2006 4 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. I’m out visiting my 91 year old Mac Geek mother again and one of our “projects” for this visit was to fix her email once and for all. She’s had a pop account with verizon for years but it’s been giving her problems and it’s hard for me to support from a [...]
Posted in Ideas on Jul 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Guggenheim Study Suggests Arts Education Benefits Literacy Skills: “The study found that students in an arts program performed better in six categories of literacy and critical thinking skills.”
(Via NYT > Education.)
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. This weed (called peppergrass) was on the edge of what used to be a cornfield but is now part of the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. The field has gone to tall grass and a variety of interesting weeds like this one.
Posted in Macintosh on Jul 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Why I Love Apple: “A stupid little detail in an Apple app nicely illustrates the extreme attention to the fine points of user experience that makes people fanatical about the company. Commentary by Leander Kahney.”
(Via Wired News: Top Stories.)
Posted in Photographers, Places on Jul 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. My friend Ted has been my tour guide through all of my recent local landscape and nature photography. I have great photo-ops right here on my property but it’s a lot more fun to put on hiking boots and trudge out on an adventure with a fellow photographer. Ted’s been a great guide [...]
Posted in Landscape on Jul 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Knowing that I’ve been on a Queen Anne’s lace “kick,” a friend took me up to this secluded field that may have been in corn growing rotation at one point but it seems to have been left to grow wild in recent years. There were photo-ops at every scale here: macro to micro, [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Farmers sometimes leave a wall of trees on the side of a field to protect it from wind. For a photographer, the wall of green can provide a great backdrop to flowers and other subjects. In this case, I caught some Queen Anne’s lace and grass in the space between me and the [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. I had just crossed a field of grass, Queen Anne’s lace, milkweed, daisies, and other assorted plant life when I noticed a bunch of daisies with clear space in front of them. The romantic mind thinks that this would be a good place to pick out a bouquet for the wife. The photo-nerd [...]
Posted in Creatures, Places on Jul 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I were walking across a large field of grass, Queen Anne’s lace, milkweed, and other assorted plant life when he spotted this unusual dragonfly. I had an incredibly hard time seeing him and once I did I had to put down my bag, set up the tripod and get the [...]
Posted in Creatures, Places on Jul 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. There’s quite a bit of milkweed out in the meadow at Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. Monarch butterflies love to eat this weed and I would think that smart photographers who want to photograph monarchs would wait by a patch of this weed for one to stop by for a [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on Jul 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
There’s a wonderful thread on flickr that’s worth scanning: Embarrassing/Silly things with your DSLR. It’s like a checklist of things to check on your camera before shooting. Useful and funny at times.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Queen Anne’s lace is in full bloom In the meadow in the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. Each part of this plant is photogenic, even the geometry of the stems leading up to the flowers on top.
Posted in Photo Resources on Jul 20th, 2006 2 Comments »
When I took this picture of Antonio Hart at The Blue Note I posted a question in a technical thread on flickr: could I print and sell this image of Hart without his consent. Here’s the facinating thread that is still growing from that question: Legal issues shooting people.
Here’s an interesting link that came in [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 19th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. An interesting aspect of large glass buildings is how they interact visually and spatially with the buildings around them, be they other glass buildings or older buildings with stone or brick facades. The most photogenic glass buildings are glazed in a way that distorts, warps, or colors the reflected image in unexpected [...]
Posted in Places on Jul 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
New York City. Inside a maze of terracotta-edged rooflines surrounded by red brick walls, two inhabitants ponder the labyrinth, the heat, and the state of the outside world.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 19th, 2006 4 Comments »
New York City. As the sun went down behind New Jersey, an apartment building facing west lit up. I couldn’t shoot it from my vantage point so I bounced off the reflective north-facing windows of the office tower across the way. Because of the grid of windows and panes on that building, the result was [...]
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