Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on May 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This bee stomped around on the stamen of this flower, hoping to pick up some stamen.
Posted in Photographers, Places, Video on May 31st, 2008 8 Comments »
I could never be a street photographer like this, but if you’re gonna do it, this is the way to do it. It makes me terribly uncomfortable, the way Groucho Marx and Don Rickles make me uncomfortable. However, its well done. What can I say?
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. Can you imagine falling into this molten pit, struggling to get out only to find that you can’t get a grip on these pollen encrusted stamen. What a way to go.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. This fern has an interesting embossment on it that reminds me of the stitching on a pair of jeans. I wonder what purpose the embossment serves on the leaf structurally. Could it be like the "creases" in the sheet metal of car bodies, put in to give those large expanses [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on May 29th, 2008 No Comments »
In the photography world there is much discussion about how to control depth of field through the focal length of the lens, aperture control, the distance from lens to subject and the distance from subject to background. Here are some web sites that discuss and offer resources for understanding and better using depth of field [...]
Posted in Ideas, People on May 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
A Superhighway to Bliss
The New York Times has an excellent piece on Jill Bolte Taylor who I posted about in March with the the TED video.
In February, Dr. Taylor spoke at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference (known as TED), the annual forum for presenting innovative scientific ideas. The result was electric. After her 18-minute address [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. The variety of plants in the Huntington herb garden is mind boggling. One has to look closely as they’re growing on top of one another but an hour there will turn up some wild stuff, like this spiny meteorite.
Posted in People on May 28th, 2008 5 Comments »
Santa Monica, California. My mother turned 93 a few days ago (5/26) and amazingly, I have more gray in my hair than she does.
93! I can hardly wrap my brain around it.
The "real" Obama girl!
My mother was into Obama before I was. I guess wisdom does come with age.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 28th, 2008 6 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. Out of all of the places to photograph at this photographer’s paradise, two places should not be missed: the herb garden where this was taken and the desert garden with all the cacti and succulents.
While most of the tourists are off photographing roses you can have both of of these [...]
Posted in Movies, People on May 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73
Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and ’80s, died Monday at home (in Los Angeles). He was 73.
Wow, I’m shocked. His [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Places on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The LA Times had an interesting piece this morning: Thousands Oaks teenager prepares to sail solo around the world.
When I was Zac’s age I could hardly imagine going to college let alone sailing solo around the world. Go Zac.
For more on this check out his web site where you can track his voyage: Zac Sunderland.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photo Gear, Photography, Tools on May 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
In a discussion on flickr on what it takes to be a “great photographer” the conjecture is that one can’t do it with a point and shoot camera. It’s both an immature conjecture and an interesting consideration wrapped up together.
O/T Point and Shoot Rant
In one of my replies as I was struggling to voice an [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Politics, Social Software, Tech Stuff on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Roger Cohen has an excellent editorial in today’s NY Times: The Obama Connection where he discussed the connection between Obama’s experience as a community organizer putting him in a perfect position to appreciate and use web-based communication and organizing to help drive his campaign and introduce himself to people who don’t know about him.
If Obama [...]
Posted in Events, Ideas, People, Politics, Video on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Wonderful speech Barack. Get well Ted.
Posted in Photo Resources on May 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
The Diagonal Method
The rule of thirds on steriods.
In my experience with visual design and eyeing a composition, one can do it by one’s gut feeling (based on experience) or one can think of learned rules (things that groups of people agree upon) and use those rules as an overlay. What’s interesting is that people [...]
Posted in Landscape on May 23rd, 2008 4 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. This field is part of the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. I first knew it as a corn field but this year it’s planted with grass and will be hayed in late summer.
This lone tree is the only one on the entire field and it no doubt either gives the [...]
Posted in Photographers on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Cornell Capa, Photographer, Is Dead at 90
Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography in New York after a long and distinguished career as a photojournalist, first on the staff of Life magazine and then as a member of Magnum Photos, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.
Posted in Macintosh on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Mothership
Everything Apple, including a great collection of print advertising.
Note: I have a lot of this stuff, in original form. Someday it’s going up on eBay…
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Social Software on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
StumbleUpon discovers web sits based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.
Ugh, it learned too fast, I’m about to explode!
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Photography, Social Software on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Tag Galaxy works with flickr tags to show related tags in a solar system. Interesting UI. Click on a planet and it becomes the center tag and off you go into outer space.
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