Some thoughts on conservation
I found a link to this blog post on Twitter a few days back: The Abdication of Advocacy. Since then, it’s stuck in my mind and I continue to mull over what the author had to say. I don’t consider myself political – I have almost no use for politics and strictly try to avoid [...]
Photos USA
Was playing around with Google Maps yesterday and had the photo feature turned on. Not quite sure how I managed to get this, since I don’t recall ever seeing anything like it before, but I thought it was pretty damn cool. Here’s the USA, blanketed in photos. It’s truly an amazing age we live in!
8 Ideas for a Slow (Snow) Day
Right now I’m snow-bound and having visions of the Donner Party. Okay, so it’s not that bad, more a case of cabin fever setting in as I reach the 36 continuous hours in my apartment. But still, the farthest I’ve managed to go in that time is the street, to dig out my car. It’s dug out [...]
Holiday Photo Cards
I generally ignore most holidays, including my own birthday. But I have a special soft spot for Christmas and that particular feeling that is in the air as it approaches. It’s the one holiday where I do pay attention and try to celebrate what’s good in the world. But that doesn’t meant that there aren’t [...]
Moon Shots
There’s something about the moon that has always drawn us to gaze up at it. For centuries, poets and artists have extolled the moon, praised it, sang to it, and loved it. Popular opinion holds that the moon has power over us, that the full moon riles our emotions and the new moon makes us [...]
Looking Back
I’m probably too young to be feeling nostalgic, but nevertheless I am a little. I was checking out some of the Canon DSLR models that I’m less familiar with, more out of boredom than anything, and I ended up going back to read the review on the original Canon Digital Rebel, the 300D. The 300D [...]
I found this funny
WordPress has some nifty features that show statistics about your blog and its visitors. I’m not sure how accurate they all are, but each day I get an updated display of traffic, which pages were most popular, where people came from – that sort of thing. I also get a list of the search terms [...]
Rumors – Canon 60D
It’s common knowledge that a new Canon xxD series camera is due out within the next year, replacing the 50D, which itself seems to have failed to gather the reception Canon was hoping for. There was a lot of grumbling about the 50D as photographers started using it and realized its weaknesses – or better [...]
Magic Light
I’m not feeling very verbose tonight. This may come as a surprise to some of you, based on some of my previous posts. So instead of giving you a dozen longwinded reasons why sunrise/sunset light is best for outdoor shooting, I’m simply going to show you. The following shots were taken Saturday evening and Sunday [...]
Black & White
Sometimes you take a shot, and you just know that it’s going to look best in black & white…
