We took advantage of the Labor Day weekend to take the whole family on a hike at Clinton Lake. Everyone had fun, including the two dogs. We spent most of Monday evening picking burrs out of both poodles, as you can tell from the pictures.
Finally, someone explains Unsharp Mask in simple terms. Ever wonder why the amount of the radius on the threshold can make your photos look like crap? Read this.
I’m sure you’ve seen this already, but it is cool. They call them “long photos” which is pretty cute. They adhere to all the same access standards as photos, as far as privacy feeds, searching, etc. The length is short (90 seconds) and the size is small (150 MB) but I think most of my […]
I had forgotten all about SmartMedia, the flash storage format that predated Compact Flash and SD cards. Until I unearthed our first digital camera, the ancient Olympus D-490 ZOOM. Popped a few AA batteries in it, and it fired right up. So i gave it to our four-year-old, and he took a bunch of pictures, […]
I took this photo a long, long, long time ago. With the kids home for MLK day, got no time to post. So here’s what you get. There are a few more of this guy up on Flickr.
I got to fly to Philadelphia recently all on my own, no kids in tow. At the various airports on my way there and back (Kansas City, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and Detroit) there were a number of times when I wanted to take photographs of strangers. Wonderfully craggy faces, distracted business runabouts, or candidly tired travelers. […]
