Posted in Places on Jul 31st, 2008 4 Comments »
The Big Picture has another wonderful series: Daily Life in Belarus. I wasn’t sure exactly where Belarus sat in Europe. No doubt a few of you might want some more resources: Belarus at Wikipedia, Google map Belarus.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Social Software on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
One of my favorite NPR radio shows, On Point has a new web site which is not only nice looking, well organized and “modern” but also has commenting on each show. I predict that a lively community will form there because it’s a great show. More on their new site. The site also includes a [...]
Posted in Landscape on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This summer the weather has either been so bad I don’t go out with a camera or so good the light is bright and flat. I wanted to find a place that would give me more drama with light minus the bad weather and shooting from shady woods into a sunny meadow did [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Editing Software on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Useful write up by Thomas Hawk: The 10 Best Things About the New Adobe Lightroom 2.0. I’m planning on waiting a while longer before doing this upgrade but many of the updated features are appealing.
Posted in Photo Editing Software on Jul 29th, 2008 5 Comments »
Lightroom 2 released to suspecting public I didn’t play with the beta and will no doubt upgrade at some point but I think I’ll wait for 2.1. No rush, the current version works fine for me.
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jul 29th, 2008 5 Comments »
Cuil is a new search engine that has a nice clean look and has lots of features that make it extremely useful. What will be interesting to track is how it does competing with Google. Even if it’s the better tool, Google has so much momentum it may be hard to catch. Nothing like a [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software on Jul 28th, 2008 8 Comments »
John Markoff reports on the MobileMe meltdown at Apple. Dang, I’m glad I’ve avoided this part of Apple. I remember when they came out with their AOL competitor, eWorld. It was also a dog in that it was overly graphical to the point of breaking under its own weight. Apple gets a lot right but [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Social Software on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The Young Turks of Cyberspace This disjointed grab bag of gossip has its elucidating moments, but as the definitive tale of the rise of Web 2.0, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” serves as a reminder that the latter-day equivalent of Tracy Kidder’s 1981 book, “The Soul of a New Machine,” the gold standard for [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. I guess high summer is not the best time to photograph the herb garden at the Huntington Library and Garden. Most of my favorite plants had gone by or were wilted in the heat. Of course, I have an eye for flowers in decay and tried to make the most out of it [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Reading on Jul 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Leaves Speak; a Journalist Listens One of my favorite New Yorker writers is about to come out with a book of photographs and an essay on burdock leaves. I can’t wait.
Posted in Macintosh, My mother, People on Jul 26th, 2008 4 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. My 93 year old mother’s Verizon DSL connection has been a piece of crap since we put it in years ago. She’s been offline for a month and I could not get ####ing Verizon to send someone out to help her (I did what I could from Connecticut). I finally convinced her [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources, Places, Travel on Jul 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Mitch Alland has a nice essay on An Approach to Street Photography at The Online Photographer. It was only when I conceived of doing a book about Bangkok on the difficulties of living in a huge, hot, tumultuous and chaotic city, that I started doing street photography. The point here is that street photography, like [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers on Jul 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
One of my longtime flickr contacts Peter Bowers produces another stunning landscape image. He, more than most, knows how to use a wide angle lens and light to give an image scale and drama.
Posted in Photo Resources on Jul 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
Aaron Bieber has a nice post: Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings. Shooting mode, Aperture (or f-stop), Shutter speed, ISO sensitivity, Exposure value (EV) Each of these settings affects the others. It’s like a five-way see-saw where changing one setting will require that you change another to compensate for it. So why change the settings [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, Politics on Jul 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg Fantastic. This is going to get me excited about Salon again. You can subscribe to this as a podcast via the iTunes Music Store here: Salon.com: Glenn Greenwald Radio.* To get the URL of any song, album, or podcast in the iTunes Music [...]
Posted in Macro, Photo Resources, Social Software on Jul 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
This is another experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM” with PictoBrowser. It took all of 30 seconds. [via Michaela Hackner]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Jul 24th, 2008 No Comments »
State of the Art: Big Sensor a Small Step for Cameras So kudos to Sigma. It has done what was once considered impossible: it has built a big sensor into a tiny camera. But did it have to be such a lame camera? No zoom, no stabilizer, no focus lamp, no optical viewfinder, no live [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion on Jul 22nd, 2008 11 Comments »
Gizmodo has a rumor and a great picture: MacBook touch Coming in October. This looks fantastic. The question is, do I want one? I’m not sure. When it rains it pours: The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Photo Gear, Social Software on Jul 22nd, 2008 12 Comments »
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. This is just an experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM” with flickrSLiDR. It took all of 30 seconds. Wow.
Posted in Photo Resources, Social Software on Jul 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
flickrSLiDR flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You’ll receive the HTML embed code in return. Cool, have to try [...]
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