I was informed by Valleywag (inside baseball quip: how often do you hear the words “informed” and “Valleywag” in the same sentence) earlier today that Neal Stephenson–NYT bestselling author of Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Snow Crash and the Baroque...
I put up two more pictures from Minneapolis a minute ago. They’re both of my sister’s family’s dog, Ollie, who is a huge bundle of energy wrapped up in a boxer body. He’s a sweet dog, but not the smartest thing in the world, unfortunately.
I was in Minnesota last week visiting family and friends, and took a number of fun pictures with my brand-new macro lens, the Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro. This is a lovely lens, especially for the price. It’s not L glass, but it’s also 33% of the pric...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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!
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...
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...