All Blog Posts (Page 39)

Jul 23, 2008
Photography

How to Buy a DSLR for $1000

Cross-posted to Amazon, check it out there for convenient product review capabilities. A very fine gentleman I know asked me today what digital SLR I’d buy for a thousand dollars. I was going to email him back with an answer, but I realized that ...

Jul 20, 2008

Pictures from Today

So, it turns out that I botched the date: the SAM 75th anniversary party was actually yesterday. Teaches me to put stuff into my calendar, I guess. Oh well. In any case, Helen and I still took a good thousand photos between the two of us today. I ...

Jul 18, 2008
Photography

Ouch

I just ordered a pair of PocketWizards, a Vivitar 285, a B-M lightstand and umbrella adapter, umbrella, a few random accessories, and other such things. I’m going to immensely enjoy my foray into off-camera lighting, but oh dear god did the price ...

Jul 17, 2008
Photography

Capitol Hill photo ops over the weekend

The Seattle Asian Art Museum is hosting a 75th anniversary party on Sunday, July 19th, from 10am to 4pm. Sounds like there should be some good photo ops with a youth marimba ensemble, Chinese lion dancing, juggling and more. I’ll certainly be ther...

Jul 16, 2008
Photography

Where do my pictures hang out?

I Just found another place where one of my pictures has been used recently. The local NPR affiliate, KUOW, had a call-in program with Ron Sims, King County Executive, and used my picture of him from the Gay Pride Parade for the website blurb. Neat! 

Jul 15, 2008
Photography

Guess who was just accepted by PhotoShelter!

I just received word that my application to PhotoShelter, a fantastic stock photography service, was accepted. You can check out my profile to see the four images of mine (out of 10) that were accepted. woo-hoo! Hopefully, my camera equipment will...

Jul 14, 2008
Mac OS X

RSS Readers and Rich Client Myths

I installed iPhone OS 2.0 on my iPhone last Thursday, and immediately set to work pimping out my phone with every halfway decent-looking free app I could cram into its eight shiny gigabytes of flash space. This included NetNewsWire, which I used t...

Jul 13, 2008
Photography

13th Annual Georgetown Art and Garden Walk

Helen and I went to the 13th Annual Art and Garden Walk this afternoon down in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. We had a blast, especially since Helen picked up a Canon Rebel XTi earlier this week.  She’s adapting pretty well to the camera...

Jul 12, 2008
Photography

Photowalk with Thomas Hawk

As I mentioned before, there was a photowalk starting at Pike’s Place Market in downtown Seattle yesterday. I took a few hundred pictures, and ended up with a handful that I thought were worth putting online. As always, you can find the full set o...

Jul 11, 2008
Photography

Photowalk with Thomas Hawk Tonight

There’s a Photowalk happening tonight in Downtown Seattle with Thomas Hawk. It starts at 6pm next to Rachel the Pig at Pike’s Place Market. (photo by Life As Art from Flickr. Provided under the Creative Commons by-nc-nd license)