Posted in Photographers, Video on Oct 31st, 2008 No Comments »
My Day, Yesterday My flickr contact and fellow Nutmegger criana used her point and shoot Canon SD550 to make a series of short videos and cut them together making a day in the life video. I love it for its informality and the candid window into her world.
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. As the temperature drops the songbirds on our feeders eat more and the more they eat the more often I have to fill the feeders. My wife thinks the birds put hobo signs on our house: "humans keep feeders full here, empty fast for fresh seed."
Posted in Places on Oct 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Moscow, the roof view Call me unworldly but I continue to get a charge out of contemporary views of different places in the world. I’m not talking National Geographic or professional photojournalism here, just great shots taken by a variety of people. I can see a future where universal geotagging will links these views up [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Social Software on Oct 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
Andrew Sullivan has written a great pice for The Atlantic: Why I Blog. Sullivan’s blog: The Daily Dish has become quite popular and not just because he’s a conservative for Obama, also because he’s smart and articulate. The radio show OnPoint is doing a piece right now called Can Bloggers Save Journalism? which is fascinating. [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Storm-battered Yemen. Absolutely incredible photography of one of the poorest countries in the world that just got wiped out by heavy storms. The architecture is wonderful, what a shame it’s been battered so badly.
Posted in Photographers, Politics, Video on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a collection of videos of David Hume Kennerly up on Google. Kennerly is Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist made famous by his documentary photographs of American Presidents. Official site of David Hume Kennerly. Note there are more videos up there.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, Places, Video on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
This is fantastic. What a process. [via kottke.org]
Posted in Photo Gear on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Canon 50D firmware fixes Error 99 The dread error 99 can appear on Canon DSLR bodies for any number of reasons and when it does, you’re out of business until you fix the problem (clean lens contacts, charge battery, etc.). My guess is that on newer bodies there are an increasing number of backward compatibility [...]
Posted in Animals, Photographers, Places on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Horses at work and at play. A wonderful collection of images of horses in all corners of the world.
Posted in Flowers, Landscape, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This is just a quick test of my 135mm f/2 L lens with my 1.4x extender which makes the resulting combination 189mm with a max aperture of f/2.8. I’m considering the Canon 200mm f/2.8 L lens and wanted to see if what I have already with this combo might do the job. Alex [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Tech Stuff, Video on Oct 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Time Lapse Tutorial This is a very useful tutorial on setting up and shooting time lapse photography. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Objects on Oct 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. There is beauty in everyday objects and one of the things we can do with our cameras is take objects out of their functional settings and just look at their forms. This bulb is reminiscent of a Mercury Space capsule as well as a piece of Japanese pottery. There’s something pleasing about the [...]
Posted in Movies, People, Photographers on Oct 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
A good friend of mine just gave me the DVD: Brilliant Fever: W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh and while I knew Smith’s work, I fell in love with it all over again watching it. This documentary is a window into the mind of a working photographer doing a four year project documenting the city of [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources, Social Software on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Idee labs has made a nice interfact for searching for Flickr photos by color or tag. Click on a color or write in a tag, click the color or tag to eliminate it or make groups. This is a heck of a lot of fun. [via kottke.org]
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Oct 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
An intimate look at Obama Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Opinion on Oct 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Ars reviews the 2008 MacBook Pro Well written review (as always) but the part that interested Edward and me is the section The shiny on glossy vs. matte screens. Two different opinions in the review, both well reasoned. This is why I’m going to have to get to the Chelsea Apple Store in NY this [...]
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Oct 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The sun is coming up behind me and lighting up the trees behind our small pond. It’s cold out and we have a fire burning this morning. These clouds are the preface of supposed rain later today. I love fall but it’s a heck of a lot of work: leaves, firewood, garden to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion on Oct 19th, 2008 16 Comments »
Derek Powazek has issues with the glossy screens on the new MacBook Pros: Reflections on the new MacBook Pro. This is not great news for me because I’m pretty sure I’m going to feel the same way when I see one this Thursday. There’s really no way to tell for sure until one gets the [...]
Posted in Animals on Oct 18th, 2008 3 Comments »
The Big Picture has a fantastic collection of animal images: World Animal Day. Great variety, the baby white rhino toward the end is my current fav. What an expression.
Posted in Ideas, Landscape on Oct 17th, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Call me nuts but I don’t like "peak" fall colors. I like the colors of early fall where you have early turning red swamp maples against a green background and late fall like this scene where some trees have all but lost their leaves and the leaves still on trees are dry and [...]
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