Posted in Aerial Photography, Photojournalism, Places on Jan 31st, 2011 4 Comments »
Helmand province from above Helmand province is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the southwest region of the country. The Helmand River flows through the mainly desert region, providing water for irrigation. Much of the fighting between NATO and Taliban forces is taking place in this province and Helmand is said [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Jan 31st, 2011 6 Comments »
At Flickr, Fending Off Rumors and Facebook Although Flickr is well known and still widely used, its traffic is shrinking. Unique visitors to Flickr in the United States fell 16 percent, to 21.3 million, in December compared with a year earlier, according to comScore. Meanwhile, for that same time frame, use of Facebook’s photo features [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Tools on Jan 27th, 2011 1 Comment »
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad a year ago. Amazing how it’s done in just a year. Darrell Etherington has put together a nice timeline of the iPad’s first year: The Unlikely Story of the iPad, One Year In.
Posted in Beer, Ideas, Process on Jan 27th, 2011 2 Comments »
Leo Babauta has a great post at his mnmlist (minimalist) site about the Westvleteren Brewery, a Belgian brewery run by Trappist monks. “We are no brewers. We are monks. We brew beer to be able to afford being monks.” Read Leo’s most excellent post. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Jan 25th, 2011 2 Comments »
My flickr contact joka2000 posted a nice flower image filled with color, shape, and bokeh. Just what’s needed on this snowy (yet again) morning here in the frigid Northeast US.
Posted in Ideas, People, Social Software on Jan 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Tracking down my online haters Jeff Pearlman, a writer for the Sports Illustrated online decided to track down a few of the followers who rudely trashed him on Twitter. When he talked with them on the phone he found them decent folks who got caught up in the anonymity of the internet and admittedly went [...]
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Tools, Travel on Jan 23rd, 2011 7 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do a post like this for a while, sorry its taken me so long. Traveling back from LAX to JFK (Los Angeles to New York) yesterday I saw the following: In the United *Red Carpet Club (RCC): four 11″ MacBook Airs, one 13″ MacBook Air, twenty iPads (used with a mixture [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion, SSD (solid state drive), Tech Stuff, Tools on Jan 21st, 2011 9 Comments »
Patrick Rhone over at minimal mac led me to Frank Chimero’s writing on his digital tools: The Setup which got me thinking about my digital tool situation again. Here’s a quote from Frank’s post: I think tweaking the rig is a large part of being a nerd. Agreed. As my friend Dale says as we [...]
Posted in Architecture, iPhone Photography, Places on Jan 20th, 2011 No Comments »
This is the entrance roof at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It reminded me of a Japanese screen. The colors are wonderful.
Posted in Adventure, Photographers, Places, Video on Jan 18th, 2011 4 Comments »
The images are great and the video is really great. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Adventure, Old Photos, Photographers on Jan 13th, 2011 8 Comments »
Mid-1970′s, Yosemite Valley, California. This picture was taken by my then girlfriend and climbing partner Faye Nakamura. I’m not sure which climb we were on but it’s not a wall since I don’t have a haul line or aiders. I’m guessing its the East Buttress of Middle Cathedral Rock, one of our favorite all day [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Photographers on Jan 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Obama Image Copyright Case Is Settled The Associated Press and the artist Shepard Fairey have settled their copyright battle over the unlicensed use by Mr. Fairey of an A.P. photograph of Barack Obama in the memorable 2008 “Hope” poster. The A.P. announced the settlement on Wednesday. Background on this here.
Posted in Food, Process, Video on Jan 12th, 2011 5 Comments »
Fantastic short on making puff pastry on a semi-industrial scale. I love this stuff, reminds of me of production clay work. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Opinion, People, Reading on Jan 12th, 2011 5 Comments »
Man of Mystery, Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels? Joan Acocella at the New Yorker has an excellent critique, background, and overview of Stieg Larsson’s novels and the films made from them in the January 10th issue. It seems Larsson’s background and possible motivations for inventing a character like Lisbeth Salander are as complex [...]
Posted in Animals, Old Photos, Places on Jan 12th, 2011 4 Comments »
July, 1969, Yosemite Park, California. I took this out our car window against my father’s advice. We went to Yosemite as a family each year until I went away to college; my parents continued to go for many years after. Those were amazing years in Yosemite and we even experienced the famous Yosemite Firefall where [...]
Posted in Birds, Canon EOS 7D, Photographers on Jan 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
My flickr contact Birdwatcher 1406 shot an outstanding image of two egrets on a dead tree.
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Jan 9th, 2011 No Comments »
My long time flickr contact Jun has posted a dreamy flower shot. I love these watercolor-like images and Jun is a master of flower “bokeh.”
Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff on Jan 8th, 2011 6 Comments »
I Just Want a Dumb TV We’ve had a “new” HD TV for a little over a year now and while our TV has a fantastic picture its menu of features and their implementation is less than wonderful. Our TV is a Sony KDL-40EX700 40″ BRAVIA HDTV. It has 4 HDMI inputs and a USB [...]
Posted in Animals, Birds, Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, Photographers on Jan 8th, 2011 3 Comments »
My long time flickr contact Art is testing out Canon’s new EF 2X III Teleconverter with his 300mm lens. The feather detail on the chest of this female cardinal is extraordinary.
Posted in Fireworks, Photo Printing, Photo Sites, SSD (solid state drive) on Jan 7th, 2011 No Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do another MagCloud project and finally got around to it. Having the SSD drive in my MacBook Pro helped with the heavy lifting of picture editing in Lightroom and layout and design in Pages. This issue of Wabi Sabi is my collection of images “fireworks from below” shot in 2008 on [...]
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