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WWDC 2020 wish list
I see some wish lists for Monday’s WWDC being published so I thought I’d take a moment and jot down just a few from the top of my head. I decided to jut let my mind riff for a while to see what it would come up with. I could likely come up with more […]
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Stolen by Adrian Brandon
Adrian Brandon: This series is dedicated to the many black people that were robbed of their lives at the hands of the police. In addition to using markers and pencil, I use time as a medium to define how long each portrait is colored in. 1 year of life = 1 minute of color. Touching […]
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The 16-inch MacBook Pro
I was going to wait a little bit longer before writing my review of this new computer, but Michael Tsai recently published some of his thoughts on it and – after writing a post in response to his experiences I realized it was turning into a bit of a review – so now this post […]
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Why I used Migration Assistant to move to my new Mac
This isn’t a tutorial. If you’re in need of one and you’ve somehow stumbled onto my blog of jumbled thoughts on a variety of topics, sorry. You’ll need to go back to Google and try again (though, really, you should be using Duck.com). I recently upgraded to a 16-inch MacBook Pro (review forthcoming) and had […]
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PHP turns 25
PHP turns 25. I’ve said that I agree that PHP is pretty bad. However, I still use it regularly, it has allowed me to make some incredible things, and made me a ton of money over those 25 years. /via Michael Tsai.
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Over the weekend, Emulsive published my guest post in their 5 frames series. Subscribers to my blog will recognize the photos.
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Make RSS more visible
Marcus Herrmann: Personal website owners – what do you think about collecting all of the feeds you are producing in one way or the other on a /feeds page? You can put your blog feed there, but also RSS generated from your Twitter account (via RSS Box), Mastodon updates, or even the starred items of […]
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The last few mornings I’ve been toying with making a web UI for my photo script (and extending it into a full photo library management tool). I’ve hit a roadblock working with files using a web app. Not sure I want to write a Mac app this summer. I’m disappointed. Perhaps I’ll pick the best […]
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This Obsidian app is really very good. It may replace Simplenote for me.
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The 16-inch MacBook Pro is very fast.
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I too miss the old days of blogging but they are never coming back
TTTThis: When you search for blogs now on you see things like ‘Top 100 Blogs.’ ‘How to Make a Successful Blog.’ ‘Most Powerful 50 Blogs.’ But what you really want is 10,000 unsuccessful blogs. Much of the linked piece is likely to be taken as hyperbole but it is mostly true-ish. It is true that […]
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Chris Coleman has a blog
Chris Coleman: Eventually I ran out of steam, life changed a bit, and the vacuum that this site filled in my day was filled by other things. I was 23 when I started this site. I’m 41 now. A lot has happened in 18 years, but somehow it doesn’t feel like a long time has […]
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Unmark version 2020.1 has officially rolled into master today. This is a huge milestone with tons of new features and improvements. It has been running on Unmark.it for months and purrs like a kitten. Unmark is still my favorite app I use every single day.
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I’d like to shoot a photo for an album cover.
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Jeremy asks what our favorite photo is. Very hard question. But I’d have to choose Disfarmer #41383.
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Nick Carver is giving away 2 seats to his online light metering for film photography course for those that may not be able to afford it.
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Exposed root – April 2020
Exposed root – April 2020 If you walk through the same forest for months and months – you begin to notice the details you’d normally miss. Also on Flickr, Instagram.
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I hope my comprehensive crash reports that I’m sending to Twitter a few times per day are helpful for their team. See example.
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Micro.blog for Teams
Manton Reece: Today we’re launching a new feature on Micro.blog: support for multi-user blogs, so your whole team can write posts on a shared blog. We think it’s going to be great for small companies, families, and schools, with everything from shared photo blogs to podcasts. This is a big update. You may remember that […]
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Flowers – May 2020
Flowers – May 2020 The above image is a digital positive created from a paper negative. It was handcut from Ilford photo paper, shot, developed by me last night. I also used it as the subject for my first contact print. You can read the behind-the-scenes story here on my blog. Also More also on […]
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My first contact print
Above is my first ever contact print. A contact print is when you lay a negative (film, paper, tin, glass) onto photo-sensitive paper and shine light onto it to expose the paper. You then develop that paper into a positive print (or what you’d think of as a normal photo). This is a milestone in […]
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I also backed up my site locally – including media and database – something I do not do often enough.
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Me, laying down, waiting in line for tickets to Star Wars in May 1999. Image Credit: Times Tribune Archives
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Birds on wires – January 2020
Birds on wires – January 2020 Somehow these images got clogged into my drafts and never published. These pigeons roost above and below a nearby highway bridge. They were enjoying the sunset when I captured these images.
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What I saw somewhat recently #64: April 30, 2020
Are you enjoying these links? I know I am. Light week. Mostly because I’ve been very busy both professionally and on my photography.
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Jeremy’s post on Star Wars has me thinking; now that the Skywalker story is “finished”, I wish they never made the prequels or films 7, 8, 9. I’d like the original trilogy to stand on its own, keep Rogue One and Solo, and have a new trilogy based on Rey without any ties back to […]
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An interview with artist Marc Taro Holmes
Late last week I published an interview with Marco Taro Holmes, one of the original members of Urban Sketchers, on my now 10-year old web site The Watercolor Gallery. It was a pleasure to interview Marc and a lot of his answers epitomize the reason I built The Watercolor Gallery in 2010 – to inspire […]
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Photographing the same location over and over
I’ll likely touch on this topic in an upcoming pandemic powered Podcast episode. Albert Dros, 2017: Sometimes the area where you live would not be motivating to photograph because you see these things everyday. However, when I started photography I began to see the world (and my home area) in a different way. I started […]
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A few houseplants – April 2020
A few houseplants – April 2020 On Sunday morning I decided to quickly set up a photo shoot for my current houseplants. Here are just a few that I liked. The others didn’t come out the way I wanted due to a few limitations. So I’m hoping to do another photo shoot in the near […]
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Repost: Brent Simmons on what happens after a pandemic
👉 Brent Simmons: I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.
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What I saw somewhat recently #63: April 23, 2020
A few links to expand (or shrink) your mind.
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Magic Leap blaming COVID-19 for why it has to lay off 1,000 people is just a terrible bit of messaging. They have raised nearly $3B. And they can’t raise any more right now. And the FB deal fell through. So they have no choice regardless of this pandemic.
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The horrific and avoidable loss of life notwithstanding I believe many will wish quarantine life to continue when things begin to open up once again. I know I may be among them.
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Over the river – March 2020
Taken with Ansco Speedex on expired Kodak Tri-X 400 Over the river – March 2020 I love how this tree hangs over the river. I’ve photographed it many times and assume I will many times more. This particular image is a re-scan of a negative. I learned a slightly different way to scan and edit […]
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Rail side – March 2020
Taken with Ansco Speedex on expired Kodak Tri-X 400 Rail side – March 2020 I’d forgotten to publish this one. It is from the same expired roll I shot Sweeny’s Bench and the Studebaker on.
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What I saw somewhat recently #62: April 17, 2020
A few things I bumped into recently:
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Common Merganser takes flight triptych
Common Merganser takes flight triptych – April 2020 Sort of a triptych I suppose. I wish I had set the camera to a much faster shutter speed but I just didn’t have the time.
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Instagram’s TOS
Allen Murabayashi, CEO of PhotoShelter, regarding Instagram’s TOS: The language is typical of many photo sharing sites (including PhotoShelter), so in that sense it’s unremarkable. The company needs the ability to redisplay images, and wants to be able to have, for example, an image appear in the app, within an Instagram Story, and on the […]
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Wildlife from recent quarantine walks – March/April 2020
Looks to me like a red and grey squirrel mix Male Cardinal Male Mallard Sparrow taking flight Freshly flowered Forsythia Possible bilateral gynandromorph Cardinal (male and female) Nuthatch Chipmunk Male Garter snake Common Merganser Turkey Vulture Nutchatch Wildlife from recent quarantine walks – March/April 2020 I’ve been shooting mostly digital during our as-often-as-possible nature walks […]
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Wolfram Physics Project
Stephen Wolfram continues to make me feel lazy: Today we’re officially launching our Physics Project. From here on, we’ll be livestreaming what we’re doing—sharing whatever we discover in real time with the world. (We’ll also soon be releasing more than 400 hours of video that we’ve already accumulated.) I’m posting all my working materials going […]
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Programming is a super power.
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What I saw somewhat recently #61: April 9, 2020
Some links for your edification:
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I’ve crossed a big milestone with my photography during quarantine. I’ve moved on from the how, and am now focused on the why.
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As I mentioned, I created a PHP script that I can run on my Mac to move thousands of files into new directories based on their created date. It extremely fast compared to my previous solution. If anyone would like to improve it, please do!
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35mm film in a Medium Format camera
Ansco Rediflex, expired 35mm Fujicolor Superia 400 35mm film in a Medium Format camera From the same roll as my 2020 avatar are these select exposures of 35mm film hacked into a medium format Ansco Rediflex. What you’re looking at isn’t normal. The Ansco Rediflex is a medium format camera which, when invented in the […]
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Writing PHP for the first time in well over a year. I need to move thousands of photographs on the Mac and automatically sort them into folders by their created date. In the past I used complex apps to do this. Turns out a few lines of code is all I need.
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