“You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange, from J. Star’s Flickr profile
Concerning the recent Hamden v. Rumsefeld decision: “I’ve got to say that this decision is a decisive victory in the war to spark ridiculous right wing commentary.” —Andrew, from a comment “Guantanamo Treatment Illegal, Says SCOTUS”
There’s a discussion on Nikkor about Nikon teleconverters.
There was some discussion via e-mail about Warren Buffett’s recent donation to the William and Melinda Gates foundation. I don’t want to concentrate on that, except to state the inevitability of a man like him donating money on the sure-bet charity created by one of his favorite bridge buddies. Oh yeah, before we go all […]
What could be more stereotypical “Republican” than this? When things start going wrong, don’t blame the strategy, blame the troops.
A long time ago, someone asked for a hypothetical D200 wishlist feature, I asked for simply one: in-camera vibration reduction. Whatever you call it, this one recent gift from the video world has revolutionized photography by reducing the need for monopods and tripods. A recent article when Gary “saw the light” about image stabilization in […]
I received a request on Flickr a couple days ago: you mentioned taking 3 exposures in one of your shots (a stream in big basin) and combining them together in photoshop. how do you do that? I can only assume he meant this one: Redwoods and West Berry Creek Big Basin State Park, Santa Cruz […]
An interesting thread came up in Flickr TechTalk on digiscoping.
PoisonedMinds has a breakdown of time spent on modern web design. click image for larger view
A while back I decided to choose between subscribing to Gizmodo and Engadget, because they’re very similar and I’m not that gadget-obsessed. First I removed both hoping friends would forward me the interesting stuff. That didn’t happen because I guess I’m a really big know-it-all jerk. I then picked Gizmodo, but switched to Engadget because […]