Posted in Flowers, Hiking on Mar 18th, 2010 1 Comment »
Washington, Connecticut. At the start of a short winter hike up to the Pinnacle Dave and I got distracted by Queen Anne’s lace with snow cones on them.
Note: I’m behind in my uploading, this was taken January 31st of this year.
The flip out LCD on the G11 meant that Dave probably didn’t have to break [...]
Posted in Architecture, Events, Photographers, Places on Mar 15th, 2010 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010
Spectacular architecture under construction, beautifully documented.
Posted in Birds, Photographers, Places on Mar 13th, 2010 1 Comment »
An Orange breasted Sunbird feeds on Cape Honeysuckle at the top of Table Mountain. The bright colours in the distance is the sun on the roof tops of Cape Town.
My long time flickr contact Michael Greenwood hit the jackpot with this one.
Posted in Copyright, Photographers on Mar 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
Annie Leibovitz To Keep Iconic Portfolio
A private equity firm took over the debt Leibovitz owed the loan organization that fronted her $24 million in exchange for signing over the rights to all her past, current, and future work.
So, she’s still under the thumbs of money men but these money men are helping her market her [...]
Posted in Creatures, Photographers on Mar 7th, 2010 No Comments »
My flickr contact roddh got a shot of a fisher in a tree in his backyard. They can be pretty fierce little animals.
Posted in Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Mar 6th, 2010 6 Comments »
Your Micro 4/3’s camera + your existing lenses = limitless fun
Tyson Robichaud goes wild with a Panasonic GF1 and a load of Canon lenses. Fantastic post.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 5th, 2010 6 Comments »
NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night
Jason Hawkes shows images of New York City and Las Vegas at night shot with a Nikon D3S from a helicopter. Fantastic.
Posted in People, Photographers on Mar 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
My friend Mamen documents the Holi (festival of colors) last year at Stanford.
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Feb 25th, 2010 No Comments »
NY Times Lens: Syria Changes, to a Point
Ed Kashi’s images of daily life in modern Syria are incredible.
Do you like going to Syria?
It’s a funny thing. I do like the idea of going there. There are moments where I actually like being there. But in general, I find it to be a bit of a [...]
Posted in Flowers on Feb 24th, 2010 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna had a bowl full of these flowers floating in water. What a great idea and the water made for a great "armature" to hold the flowers upright for shooting.
Hellebore on wikipedia.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources, Tech Stuff on Feb 24th, 2010 No Comments »
ND Filters, Top to Bottom
Aaron Bieber explains neutral density filters: what they are, how they work, and why one might want to use them. Clear and excellent.
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Insight
I first learned about Insight through this post at Signal to Noise: “Smart” pasting at The New Yorker site.
If you copy text from a site that has Insight installed, when you paste it the paste will include a link back to the original post. That link is easily deleted if you don’t want it but [...]
Posted in People, Photographers on Feb 19th, 2010 7 Comments »
Markus Schwarze has some incredible images both on flickr and on his own photo site which is excellent: Markus Schwarze – Picture of the Day.
Not only is his photography first rate but his presentation with text and graphical elements is excellent.
Posted in Ideas, Yoga on Feb 16th, 2010 2 Comments »
India inmates do yoga to reduce their jail sentences
Practice yoga for three months, cut jail time by 15 days. Makes perfect sense.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Creatures, Landscape, Photography, Places on Feb 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Dogs and sleds
The Big Picture has a great collection of dog sledding images from various parts of the world.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Photographers on Feb 2nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it.
Tim [...]
Posted in Creatures, Photo Sites, Places on Feb 1st, 2010 5 Comments »
Japanese Macaque monkeys
The Frame has a wonderful collection of images of macaque monkeys in Japan. Love the last few images that show all the photographers around the hot springs. Fantastic.
Posted in Events, People on Jan 31st, 2010 8 Comments »
My wife’s first husband and my good friend David Darling has won a Grammy Award for his album Prayer for Compassion.
Congratulations David.
Congratulations also go to Mickey Houlihan who engineered and produced the album.
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, iPad on Jan 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
With the Push of the iPad, a Photograph Goes Global
Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo by Richard Misrach is one of the included desktop photos on the iPad and it was used during the iPad introduction event. It’s a spectacular image and no doubt Apple went through many to get to this one. Congratulations [...]
Posted in Events, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad, iPhone on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
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