Photography

It’s mornings like these that make me not mind getting up so much. Click for larger. Both taken with my Canon A70 from the porch around 7:10. Very chilly out there in only shorts. The second pic isn’t quite as good as the first IMHO, you can see where it was stitched together. Unfortunately Canon’s […]

Firefly has a nifty Apple Blossom or Amaryllis (hippeastrum) that’s been slowly growing from a potato shaped beast into what may be an actual real flower one day. I took some shots of it tonight (click for slightly larger version). Patches of course decided that she too wanted to be potted, and curled up for

This guy has got to be some sort of macro photography genius or something. Anyone scared of bugs shown in complete and close detail should definately notvisit the page 🙂 I found a link to his site from this thread in Sam’s forum after yet another great macro photgraph of the day. The technique he

Dave Pollard has a list of photoblogs he likes.

When I put in the temporary UFies box the other day I spent some time wandering around Vancouver and took a few pictures, which was a lot of fun and I think I got some nice shots (posted real soon now). One bus stop had a very interesting ad on it that I’m still wondering

topleftpixel.com is another daily photography site with some absolutely fantistic work by a photographer in Toronto. Funnily enough a lot of the recent pictures feature snow 🙂 A lot are also macro images, which look extremely cool. I wish I could have a clue how to get the detail he got in his bagel photo.

Popular Photography Magazine has their review of the Pentax Digital *ist available for download. Basically they love it. I was a bit surprised reading the specs over at dpreview that it’s lowest ISO is 200, but the pictures come out quite nice, so I guess it’s not that big a deal. Quick and dirty pros

…. at least not for a while. Scoble linked to a national geographic article and followed up with his opinion. Is film’s day coming to an end? The answer is clear: yes. I disagree, and not just because of the editorial in the front of January’s Popular Photography Magazine (which I’ve been meaning to write

Ten Years of My Life is one mans site to eventually document, via one photo a day, each day from his 31st to 41st years (and become a better photographer in the process). A very cool idea. Some more information about the project is here. Tig had some folks out here going on something similar

I found Photo Box and Photoshop for Photographers via the forums at dpreview.