Canon EOS 5D ($300)
Canon EOS 40D ($200)
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM ($125)
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM ($125)
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM ($100)
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM ($100)
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM ($100)
Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM ($100)
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM ($75)
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM ($40)
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM ($70)
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM ($50)
Canon Telephoto EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro ($35)
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM Macro ($30)
Canon EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 III ($15)
Canon 580EX II Speedlite TTL Shoe Mount Flash ($30)
Canon 430EX Speedlite E-TTL II Shoe-Mount Flash ($15)

California’s Supreme Court ruled that a ban on gay marriage was unlawful Thursday, effectively leaving same-sex couples in America’s most populous state free to tie the knot in a landmark ruling.

In an opinion that analysts say could have nationwide implications for the issue, the seven-member panel voted 4-3 in favor of plaintiffs who argued that restricting marriage to men and women was discriminatory.

[via Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson]

I use The Internet Movie Database but some of the rest of these look great too.

[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

Are we moving into another tech bubble? Sure looks like it. This is insane.

[via Longboard]

This is an excellent piece by Macworld and it really does go into minute detail to help buyers see how Macintosh landscape has changed.

I use a MacBook Pro as my only machine and have for many years. For me things tipped this way many years ago when I was traveling more. But, even now that I’m traveling much less I like to move around my house with my computer and I routinely read my daily political blogs sitting on the couch next to my wife who’s reading a book.

Of course, an essential ingredient in this is having a fast and stable home wifi network that allows me to work anywhere inside or even outside our house (within 50 feet of a base station).

[via Daring Fireball]

Surfwise is about Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz. a successful doctor who dropped out to surf. Along the way he marries and fathers nine children (eight boys and a girl) and they all live in a 24 foot camper and travel around surfing and living in the moment, attemping to live healthy and happy lives and of course, surfing.

Many people who have never surfed and don’t know much about it need to understand that for some people, surfing is life and while this is an extreme example it’s not outside the norm of the surfing culture.

Amazon will be selling the DVD in July: Surfwise DVD.

John Harrington is a professional photographer who has a lot of stuff. Yikes, he has a similar video on his Nikon D3 Kit.

Notice that the cameras and lenses are minus their caps. Oh well, he has a guy in a back room cleaning his stuff constantly no doubt.

Only one mistake in the presentation, he calls the 85mm f/1.2 an 85mm f/1.8. The nerve!

I do like the transition from big roll on bag to smaller shoulder bags, very nicely shown. However, between the cameras with lenses on his shoulders and those bags loaded with lenses, he’s going to need some serious work done on his back in a few years. Ugh. Tell you what John, I’ll take any of that stuff off your hands, you know, just to lighten your load a bit.

[via Dale Allyn]

A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.

I love Rauschenberg’s work and he’s had an enourmous influence on all of modern art from painting to photography to sculpture. He will be missed.

A man who allegedly photographed more than 3,000 women’s bottoms as they toured Venice has been arrested.

This has a humorous edge to it but in fact, it sits on a fine line between voyeurism and street photography.

[via Digg]

Warren, Connecticut. My wife brings all the outside potted plants into our basement for the winter and now, just before she puts them out for the summer, there are lots of flowering plants leaning toward the big window in the basement. They’re hungry for light. Given that it’s breezy outside and difficult to take pictures of small things the basement turns out to be a great place for macro shots of plants. This flower is quite small, maybe one half inch across.

Another view of this image.