Photography

Eventually the neighbors are going to start wondering why there’s a half naked man standing on the porch taking pictures first thing in the morning. Oh well, sunrises like this are worth it!

Cool little applet to show what a polarizing lens does. Via BryanBell.com.

Christopher Burkett’s Image Gallery is absolutely amazing, and why I want to become a better photographer. Note the prices for prints…. wow! From an article on Would Ansel Adams have gone digital linked from /..

It’s because of things like the above that I don’t mind getting up at the horendously early hour that I do. Absolutely fan-tastic! Another thing about getting up in the morning is that I’m the most popular person in the house. I always used to wish I was popular, and now I am. When I

James Balog is a photographer whom I was introduced to through a photography magazine. He detailed trees by snapping at points 200 or more shots while rappelling down, then re-assembled the images to create in some cases, 8 foot printouts. Nifty stuff. Note it’s a flash site.

Been a while since I posted a picture up here, so it’s fine time I did. Zoon the kitten (though she’s almost 2) has grown to really love lying on the back of the couch right under the reading light that’s positioned there. I guess it is basically a kitten heat lamp, and she really

A very neat page linked over from vancouver webloggers is a calledThe Changing City and fades between panoramas of Vancouver taken in 1978 (I was three!) and 2003 (I was/am 3+2003-1978!). You need IE, though it won’t work on my crossover office installed version. If you don’t have IE or it won’t work for you,

It’s pictures like the ones in this “Proudest Photo of the Summer” thread that make me realize how much I still have to learn about photography.

Very cool… Scoble points to a tutorial on creating a photo studio on the cheap. They use foam core (piece of black material… I love the product shot on the office depot page!) as a backdrop for macro photography. The “foam core addicts” produce some startlingly (IMHO) good photographs as well. The added bonus of

Oooohh! Went over to dinner tonight and talked to dad about photography and stuff. He gave me a little Rollei 121BC flash unit that he got from a garage sale for a doller. Very sexy little unit (front, back darker view of the back (but with the scales slightly more visible)). The scales are pretty