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The Decade in Pictures

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Every so often I feel it’s important to pass along other great and important photo links, and numerous times of late, that has been thanks to the Boston Globe’s Big Picture. This time they’ve put together a collection of “The Decade in News Photos.” It’s 50 images; 49 compelling and remarkable images, and (scratching head) [...]

The joys and perils of going viral

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Picture: Elk in river during wildfire, Bitterroot National Forest in Montana; credit: John McColgan / Alaska Fire Service

Several times in the last few weeks, I’ve watched as photos have gone ‘viral’. In the Internet age, that means that photos receive immediate and widespread recognition and distribution on web sites across the globe. If you’re a [...]

RIP Kodachrome

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Picture: Red rocks at Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah

Today, the Kodak Company announced that it was retiring Kodachrome, its flagship slide film that it been producing for well over half a century. Take a look at any National Geographic Magazine circa the early 1990’s or earlier, and that’s all you’ll see; images shot on Kodachrome. [...]

Great Photo Biz Links for the week June 15

Friday, June 19th, 2009

From Don Giannatti: Preparing yourself for getting out there as a professional photographer. A great first post in a planned series. Lots of good heads-up info you need to know if you’re thinking that being a pro photographer is in your future.
From Scott Bourne: Get Creative: Telling Stories with your Camera. Be Brave, Shoot, [...]

Thud; the sound a body makes…

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Thud. It’s a sound often heard when one body impacts something else. Today it’s the sound of the Stock Photo market impacting the bottom of the Marketplace. PDN Newswire is carrying the story of microstock agency Fotolia now offering a library of over a quarter million photos for Free. Yes, Free.
In a quote from [...]

Touching History

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Picture: Touching fossilized dinosaur tracks, near Moab, Utah.
Back when I was acting in college, one of my all-time favorite scenes was performing the closing act of Inherit the Wind, the dramatized tale of the famous Scope’s Monkey Trial that pit the Evolutionists against the Creationists.
Yesterday it was announced in the news that Darwin’s [...]

A Sad Farewell to NewLab

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

I must have missed the earlier announcements while digging out of my huge backlog of work and new business. But today, I saw an email from the Northern California chapter of ASMP about a liquidation sale happening at the NewLab. The NewLab has posted a letter on their web site from owner Sam Hoffmann about [...]

Noteworthy legal tidbits re: books and the NT

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Picture: Fountain Garden at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Cotswolds Region, Oxfordshire, England

A couple legal tidbits worth noting: First; Are you an author? Do you have a book of your photography or writing that’s been published before Janunary 5th, 2009? If so, you may want to look over the following pdf about the Google Books Class [...]

Movie Review: Earth

Monday, April 27th, 2009

This weekend, thanks to my mom, I got to spend part of a beautiful Spring Saturday afternoon in a dark movie theater, along with my wife & son, watching the new Disney Nature Film, EARTH. Narrated by James Earl Jones (Darth Vader to my son) the movie has the same tone that many of [...]

How Much is Too Much Image Post Processing?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Pictures: Asilomar State Beach, Pacific Grove, Monterey Peninsula, California. The first is a straight RAW file; the second represents my standard image processing, which took less than 30 seconds, and the third is a “hyper-processed”, highly-saturated image like might often be seen on Flickr.
Processing note; the only other manipulation to these images was [...]






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