Back from a great vacation
Yeah, I fell silent there... but for good cause: Paula and I were in Salzburg, Austria for Paula's Birthday. It was a fantastic vacation and we now have over 600 pictures to…
Photography
It’s all been said…
Pictures we took at Ground Zero when we visited in December of 2001. More on SmugMug.
Great news for those wanting to try SmugMug, no credit card needed now
SmugMug now offers a 14 trial which doesn't require a credit card. You now have no excuse to go try out what I think is the best photo site on the net.…
A great article on how to photograph fireworks
Just in time for the July 4th weekend here in the states digital photography school dot com has put up a great article on how to photograph fireworks. So, camera happy people…
Buffet for cats
Ever see people standing around a lobster tank trying to decide which one they should request?
But… that’s just not possible!
I never thought I'd see it happen... but it did. One of my compact flash cards failed. Nothing strange happened. No shocks, no static electricity, no driving over it with a car…
The best camera function you never use
It's too dark, use the flash Remember how pretty downtown looked that night? Remember grabbing a great snapshot of your friends enjoying the night? Remember getting the picture back and having a…
A fun bit O’ picture takin’
Rob and Sharon are getting ready to have their first child and they asked Paula and me to come to the beach with them yesterday to take some portraits of the happy…
A tip for smugmug users – timeline
When I made the choice between smugmug and Phanfare one thing I found I missed was the ability to filter my pictures by year taken. To my delight, smugmug added this feature…
Picture sharing sites
Over a year ago I started trying to find a photo sharing site. Now, many moons later, I have finally narrowed down my search and chosen the perfect service... all three of them.…
Great picture idea for grooms
When Dick and Trina got married they hired a really cool photographer, Craig Merrill, who a) takes great photos b) isn’t satisfied with producing "more of the same" One of the Craig's complaints is there are…
Where’d I take that picture?
Pick a trip you took from, say, two years ago. Take a look at the pictures. Do you remember where each picture was taken? Exactly where? Great, do you think you'll remember…
Raw diet
The various competing digital RAW formats have been a boon to professional and pro-sumer photographers but to date the support for them has been limited to the manufacturer's software and expensive photo…
I gave my gingerbread man a Nutella pompadour
Click for scary-big. Ginger Elvis says: “I taste better than fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches! Thank you very much!” <crunch> Ginger Elvis's head has left the building.
World-Wide Media Exchange
I was just e-mailed this by a co-worker (thanks Paul!): the World-Wide Media eXchange. It’s a Microsoft Research project gathering pictures from all over the world and arranging them into a map-driven…
Oooh, pretty!
It seems that one of these “best pictures of [some year]” directories shows up every year... and they never indicate how the pictures were chosen. Where do they come from? Who choses…