Posted in Food, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Finally, on Halloween, I picked the pumpkins in our "patch" and lined them up. We have 30 pumpkins and 15 turban squashes. None of the pumpkins are "state fair champions" but they’ll be nice pumpkin pies and squash for our one experiment with Afghan cooking: a chili like dish over pumpkin and before [...]
Posted in Objects, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2007 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. New 85L arrives, stop everything, put lens on camera, hunt for something to shoot. Pulled this out of recycling bucket. Ah… got my bokeh fix for the day. Back to work raking and blowing leaves…
Posted in Landscape on Oct 31st, 2007 8 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A friend called yesterday wanting to get out and shoot fall colors. I think between shooting and raking leaves, I’ve about had it with fall. But, it’s good to move my butt so we decided to see about late afternoon light on Gritman pond, one of the many swamps around our town that [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Oct 30th, 2007 No Comments »
This is absolutely incredible. This guy never ceases to amaze.
[via Longboard]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Oct 30th, 2007 23 Comments »
It seems I’m at a crossroads with my photo image editing on the Macintosh (again) and I hate these types of big decisions, they paralyze me. Maybe going slow is good in that there are many things to consider and I have a hard time crunching all the data easily in one fell swoop.
I bought [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Oct 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Visual History of Mac System Settings
What’s great about this is that it shows a wonderful evolution of Apple’s design thinking over many years through many design teams. For those of us who have traveled this entire way with the Macintosh it’s fascinating to think back to those old systems and for those of you who [...]
Posted in Food, Our Place on Oct 28th, 2007 13 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We’ve been buying bread from a bakery in the next town for years, and it’s great stuff. However, it’s expensive as they use all organic and high-end ingredients. They recently raised their already high prices, and that was the tipping point for me. I got my wife to teach me how to bake [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees on Oct 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Okay, I couldn’t resist the play on words (Annie Oakley). My wife is now getting with the program and bringing me leaves she’d like to see photographed. I initially complained that this oak leaf wasn’t big enough in any one place to shoot without showing the outer edges, but then I thought about [...]
Posted in People, Places, Yoga Photographs on Oct 28th, 2007 4 Comments »
Kansas City, Missouri. Back in May I was asked by Emily Darling, a well known yogi and yoga teacher (and Anne’s niece from her first marriage) to come to her new studio and do some photography for their web site and for print. We were not after studio shots of poses; we were after "art [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. It’s raining hard today and I have errands in town. While running to the truck I noticed a birch leaf, bottom side up with water droplets on it on the driveway. On a nice day, I might feel the urge to set up the tripod right over this leaf and attempt a water [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut.There are many small volunteer sumac plants around our place and one really can’t see them blended in with the other foliage in the summer but in fall, they turn brilliant red. I’m allergic to poison sumac; nice that these plants are not only beautiful but also “hypoallergenic.”
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Photographers on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Mary Macey Butler has some exceptional images. I especially like her shallow depth of field work like this poppy.
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Cats on Oct 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our seventeen year old cat, Kitty spends most of her time hiding these days but every now and then she comes out for a pet and the possibility of a photo op. She was a black cat at one time but has now turned very gray, just like her "parents" and one of [...]
Posted in Objects on Oct 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. More testing of the Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM, this time with an "Octi pet" massager as subject.
I must say, I do love this lens, it’s a joy to use.
Posted in Humor, Politics, Video on Oct 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
Great scrolling “crawler” at bottom. Gad, these guys are good.
[via Signal vs. Noise]
Posted in Ideas on Oct 26th, 2007 No Comments »
How to Taste Wine
How to Enjoy the Taste of Beer
Notice that the wine post does not include the word “enjoy.” I rest my case (of beer).
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Oct 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
Libraries that agree to work with Google must agree to a set of terms, which include making the material unavailable to other commercial search services. Microsoft places a similar restriction on the books it converts to electronic form. The Open Content Alliance, by contrast, is making the material [...]
Posted in Ideas, Stories on Oct 25th, 2007 18 Comments »
Sarah over at dreamdust posted Cold-caller and got me thinking about a phone exchange that happened to me yesterday. I swear, this is a true story, if anything I’ve cut it down.
My mother asked me to buy some tickets to a show she wants to see when I visit her next month. I called the [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics on Oct 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
U.S. CBO estimates $2.4 trillion long-term war costs
The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money, according to a study released on Wednesday.
With President George W. Bush indicating a large contingent of U.S. [...]
Posted in Ideas on Oct 25th, 2007 10 Comments »
The Power in the Cask: Old Ways, New Beer
I’m a beer drinker and I like good beer. I appreciate the microbrew revolution and it’s great to see small breweries taking chances and coming up with wonderful new cask-aged beers. However, when I read a paragraph like this it’s obvious to me that “wine talk” has [...]
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