Posted in Places on Aug 8th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. I was so engrossed in dinner conversation with Anne and our friend that I didn’t see the light changing outside and the couple sit down at the window table. As we were leaving I took the camera out and I’m glad I did. I wasn’t concerned about the slow shutter speed as [...]
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New York City. Walking down Lexington we came upon this faceted building. It was crying out to be photographed and I obliged.
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New York City. We were walking to meet a friend for dinner and as we passed under these two behemoths this picture was crying out to be taken.
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Warren, Connecticut. This is the back roofline of our house with chimney and flues and skylights.
Aaron and Janel came up to visit this past weekend and we were talking about long night exposures when Aaron said: let’s go take some. So, we did and it was fun, until we started to get eaten by mosquitos [...]
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Washington, Connecticut. Queen Anne’s lace is in full bloom In the meadow in the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust.
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Los Angeles, California. The round main courtyard entryway is one of the most interesting pieces of the various structures making up the Getty Center. This is a reflection back into the main courtyard.
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Los Angeles, California. I’m outside a Getty Gallery on a walkway similar to the one the people across the way are on. They’re looking southwest toward west LA and the Pacific.
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Los Angles, California. Standing on a lawn looking up at a gallery space (top) and a covered cafe terrace (bottom) at the Getty Center. The images I took from above were taken from the walkway at the top right of this image.
Standing on a walkway looking down at a cafe terrace, a retaining wall, a [...]
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Posted in Photo Gear on Aug 4th, 2006 No Comments »
DP Review posts that Sony is about to release a GPS tracker for photography. It allows you to record the coordinates of a photograph easily and then use those coordinates to allow people looking at the photograph on the web to see where it was taken. When this is built into the camera and the [...]
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Posted in Social Software on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Living Without The Internet: “The “community” that I find on the internet is the communality of shared enthusiasms for marginalised subjects.”
(Source Design Observer: Main Posts.)
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Gallery: Crop Circles: “Since showing up in English wheat fields 30 years ago, crop circles have become increasingly beautiful and intricate.”
(Source Wired News: Top Stories.)
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Los Angeles, California. The Getty Center is one of my favorite places to visit while in Los Angeles; the architecture is spectacular and the feeling of spaciousness, even with other people around is wonderful. This is one of the main courtyards between gallery buildings.
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This site (Richard’s Notes) is not a real photo blog and even though I’ve been posting my photography on flickr and posting thumbs and links to those images here (many of you don’t click through to flickr, I know, although you should), I’ve realized that I needed a place to show my photographic work by [...]
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Los Angeles, California. I love the Getty Center. It’s one of my all time favorite destinations, in LA or almost anywhere else. The architecture is wonderful but so is the Central Garden created by artist Robert Irwin.
On this visit, because my mother could not walk into the garden area and it was too narrow to [...]
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