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Analogue Photography in the Digital Age

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I’m not going to write out some long winded treatise on the war between film and digital imaging.  I’m pretty damn sure film lost, but it doesn’t have to crawl off and die just yet.  I use film as well as digital. It’s all easy and it’s not hard to get excellent images.

I’ve got an old [...]

Fireworks 2009

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Shot these Saturday with my Canon EOS 630 film camera and some cheap 400 ASA Fuji from WallyWorld.  Most of these where shot at f8 or f9.5 on a tripod with a shutterspeed of 5, 10 or 15 [...]

I’m a Photographer Now?

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Notice the capital “P.” Seems one of my photos (see below) was used in a Yahoo Spark article about The Language of the New Economy. It won’t make me rich (it won’t make me any money) but this is my third Flickr image used in someone else’s work. I’m up to two websites and one book! [...]

Photography Is About the EYE!

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Mike at The Online Photographer had a great idea for sharpening a photographers ability (or maybe even helping with photographer’s block), take a manual film camera (a Leica, for instance) and shoot only black and white for a year. I assume this was an exercise in seeing the light, not just the color and learning exposure [...]

Ubuntu Project on Hold

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Hit a snag with my Ubuntu laptop testing program. I’ve really booogered up the installation by trying to convert it to Kubuntu (using the KDE window manager instead of Gnome). Somehow I got parts of version 4.0 and 3.51 running together and the whole thing is hosed. Thought I knew what I was doing, “A little [...]