Holiday Backyard Solitude
As the end of the year approaches, taking time out to review the year and plan for the one ahead is an important part of my routine. And I’ve found myself doing this more sitting in my back yard. The Read More …
Category: Musings
2010 By the Numbers
While coming up with my favorites photos from 2010, I tapped into the power of Lightroom to help me quickly find all my photos from the year using a smart collection as well as all those that I had published by Read More …
If You Don’t Open Your Mouth, You Don’t Get Fed
A great mind and voice in photography once said: Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. That is one of the many great quotes about photography that I have collected over the years, and one that you Read More …
Trashing Our World
Today I got home and found a box of 216 diapers sitting on our front stoop (they weren’t a prank by a neighbor…we ordered them.). Matthew seems to going through about 8-10 of them a day right now. This evening Read More …
What Does it Mean to be a “Professional” Photographer?
This morning I was listening to my local NPR station here in the Bay Area (KQED) and was caught off guard by a Perspective from Peggy Hansen, a Bay Area “Professional” Photographer (quotes mine). Perspectives is a short audio commentary Read More …
Apple iPad: For Photographers?
Today was the big Apple announcement of the new iPad. While you can view all sorts of immediate reaction from various technology pundits, this view of the iPad is from a photographer’s perspective (check out my labs later this weekend for additional Read More …
Has Social Networking Killed Original Creative Art?
Tonight I was transitioning from Day Job into Photography by watching KQED’s Spark. The episode that was on was about Benton, Ramos, and Riley; Three artists from San Francisco that were luminaries of the 1960’s California art scene. During the Read More …