Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Photo Walk

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Well, it stinks that my blog has been off line most of the day due to a server issue. Too bad I earlier spent lots of time visiting other great blogs and leaving comments with links back here, which will never be accessed by potential visitors due to loonnnnngggg load times and outright “file not [...]

Crumpler Camera Bags are Cool: A Review

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

If you are an SLR person, you likely have a few or more lenses and other camera paraphernalia. When you travel, even just across town for an assignment or a purely creative photography expedition, you want to have your camera handy and protected.
I’ve been hauling a great Canon bag around for years, but before every [...]

Use Photoshop’s Unsharpen Mask to Improve Images

Friday, June 29th, 2007

What a difference! Above is the image I used originally in one of my “What’s on My Needles” posts a couple of months ago.
Below is a corrected image based on tips found at Digital Photography School.
It seems counter intuitive to some people to select “unsharpen” when the outcome they desire is one [...]

Cool Uses for Your iPod, Part II

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I remember when a VA colleague of mine announced that her office was going paperless. That was in 2004, when I was tired of running spyware and virus programs everytime I turned around. Paperless wasn’t a goal of mine, but becoming a PC-less office was. Whew! Am I glad I am all Mac these days.
I [...]

Finding a Personal Sanctuary

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

When the world gets confusing it is wise to go to a sacred and safe place. Yesterday felt like one of those days, so Chester and I headed out to the rookery on the edge of Willow Lake here in Prescott. Great blue herons and cormorants are nesting there now.
This place is lively and [...]

Selecting Cataloging Software for your Digital Archive

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

I wrote a few months ago about the great wealth of “Digital Asset Management” to be found in Peter Krogh’s excellent book, The Dam Book.
Now that I have spent a few months using his process of preparing images for storage and retrieval, I was ready to take a second look at what cataloging software is [...]

Kayaking with Dogs

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Paddling With a Camera is a blog I just discovered thanks to ProBloggers recent Group Writing Project.
I was zipping around in Marek Uliasz’s site, initially psyched at having found a blog devoted to two of my favorite out-of-office activities. That would be, clearly, paddling my kayak and photography. Then I found the part about kayaking [...]

Gate Ways Ephemera

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

A few years ago my friend Susy and I began creating blank notecards under the name Gate Ways. I took black & white photographs of gates in wilderness areas around Prescott when we were out hiking. I printed the photos in my darkroom and and then made cards of images.
We both got busy with work, [...]

Calling All Annie Leibovitz Fans

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Newsweek features Annie on the cover this week. There is a nice collection of images from her recently released book, A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005. There’s an interview to accompany the article at xtra.Newsweek.com on MSNBC.

Nikon D70 Progress…

Friday, September 15th, 2006

It’s been almost two years since I began my halting migration from film photography to digital. I felt such exuberance a couple of months ago when I discovered I could use my excellent lineup of lenses on this D70, and that I could apply all my old knowledge about shooting a 35mm camera in manual [...]