Archive for February, 2007
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Picture: Ninja rock climber on granite, Joshua Tree National Park, California
This is the photo I *was* going to post yesterday, before the point when I realized my weblog was “gone down”, “taking a nap”, “momentarily offline”, “on a break”, “in seclusion”, or any other manner of describing something currently unavailable.
I like this image because it feels a little different. [...]
Categories: California, Deserts, National Parks, People, Photos, Sports & Recreation, Travel
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Picture: Looking out the barrack window at horse in corral, Pipe Springs National Monument, near Fredonia, Arizona
 I mentioned previously that I was starting to process the images from my trip last fall to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. I’m actually now about 2/3rds of the way through the raw conversions, and so far I have [...]
Categories: Animals, Arizona, Barns Farms and Rural Scenes, Buildings and Architecture, Photos, Travel
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Picture: Granite boulder balanced in wedge rock, Joshua Tree National Park, California
This week IÂ finished imaging all of the shots from my trip to the Palm Springs region. You’ll remember a couple posts back with the footsteps in the sand dune, I mentioned I was about half way done. Well, Horray! I’m now done with the [...]
Categories: California, Deserts, National Parks, Photos, Travel
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
During the NANPA convention last month, I attended a digital workflow seminar with noted photographer George Lepp. During his presentation, he showed off features of a beta program called Adobe Lightroom. The beta was quick and packed with stuff. Now, George admitted he was using Jpegs for the presentation to boost the speed performance; although [...]
Categories: Digital, Newsworthy, Photo Business
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Picture: Alpenglow at sunset on Mount Dana, reflected in alpine tarn at Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park, California
It’s going to be a number of months until this scene can be seen just like this. At just shy of 10,000 feet in elevation, Tioga Pass should be deep in snow, with grass covered meadows now lying under [...]
Categories: California, Mountains, National Parks, Photos, Reflections, Summer, Travel, Water
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Picture: School bus on road through the desert at sunrise, near Ocotillo Wells, San Diego County, California
On my recent trip to Southern California last month, I had one of those moments of sheer clarity; a true, “Thank God” moment. It was about 6:03 AM on a Monday morning as I was heading into Joshua Tree [...]
Categories: California, Deserts, Mountains, Photos, Roads, Sunrise, Travel
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Picture: Footsteps along the ridge of a sand dune at sunrise, Algodones Dunes, Imperial Valley, near Brawley, California.
I have that feeling again, as I sit here at my desk, neck deep in production. This is one of 300 images taken over a five day shoot around my attendence of the NANPA Conference in Palm Springs. [...]
Categories: California, Deserts, Photos, Sunrise, Travel
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Several image galleries worth taking a look at represent the winners of two notable “Of The Year” contests.
First up are the ten winning images of the 2006 World in Focus Photo Contest put on by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. These are usually pretty images of places and cultures. FWIW, I was a Merit Award winner in this [...]
Categories: Newsworthy, Photos
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Batton down those proverbial IP hatches, as AT&T is about to have a Supreme Court face-off with Microsoft over some intellectual property involving every PC sold running Windows software. Microsoft admits infringing on AT&T’s patent of a Digital Speech Coder when it developed it’s Windows OS, but new issues involve transnationallization and a potential $1 [...]
Categories: Copyright, Newsworthy
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Picture: Coastal rocks and fog along the bluffs at Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast, California.
We’re having such a mild winter here in the Bay Area, that aside from the mild chill in the air, we could be considered “seasonless”. One of the great things about the climate along the central part of California’s [...]
Categories: California, Coast, Photos, Travel
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