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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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Indoor Voices
Remember when I opined that blogging may see a surge with all of this quarantine stuff? Indoor Voices – a new blog (on blogspot!) from over 80 quarantined writers. Kottke covers it far better than I can here. A few weeks ago, writer Kyle Chayka Tweeted “I predict a great Blogging Renaissance,” to which also […]
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My 2020 avatar
Shot on 35mm film retro fitted into an Ansco Rediflex Quarantine has me trying all sorts of experiments. One of which is retro fitting 35mm film into an old Ansco Rediflex medium format camera. It produces some interesting results (I’ll post a few in the coming days). But I’ve wanted my 2020 avatar to be […]
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Truck @ 40mph – March 2020
Konica Autoreflex T, expired Kodak Pan X film Truck @ 40mph – March 2020 Like all of my photos, there is a story behind this one. My boss gave me a camera as a gift. And I shot some really old expired film through it. This was one of my favorites from the roll. More […]
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I had no idea Kenny Rogers was a large format film photographer. Even in the Hall of Fame for it. Gorgeous work. Talented man.
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NetNewsWire is the best RSS workflow on any platform
John Gruber: It’s exactly what I want in an RSS reader, and it has changed my daily reading habits significantly. It is, in a way, a return to what NetNewsWire was before the NewsGator acquisition of it and FeedDemon. Both NNW and FD were my go-to ways of subscribing to every interest, person, web site […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site
Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere […]
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Magic Leap of faith
I’ve covered some news regarding Magic Leap a few times here on the blog. You can skim the posts here. I’ll pull a quote from something I wrote in the summer of 2018: But I do think Magic Leap is playing a dangerous game with the hype machine. They should try to lower expectations before […]
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Studebaker – March 2020
Studebaker – March 2020 A few more medium format film exposures. These were also taken with the Ansco Speedex. This old Studebaker sits a stone’s throw away from a river that runs directly in front of our place. From the stories I’ve gathered it was sitting across the street for a few decades before being […]
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VR-OS
VR-OS: A new operating system beyond the limits of your monitor Impressive concept. But far from being a reality. I would like something like this but in AR, so I can still see the world around me. I’d rather the “windows” of the OS to be able to be anywhere “in the room” such as […]
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What I saw somewhat recently #60: March 11, 2020
Here are some links I’ve found interesting lately. By the way, you can find the entire archives for this fits-and-starts series of posts.
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Sweeney’s Bench – Scranton, PA – March 2020
Sweeney’s Bench – Scranton, PA – March 2020 This being my very first “serious” medium format film exposure using the Ansco Speedex 6.3 – a camera from the 1930s that is fully manual. I’m extremely happy with this image. Even though I was using Kodak Tri-X 400 film that expired in the early 1980s, the […]
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NetNewsWire for iOS is now available
NetNewsWire: You can go get it on the App Store! It runs on iPhones and iPads and requires iOS 13. Got it.
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Gus Mueller on YouTube Premium
Gus Mueller: It made such a difference in the way I experienced YouTube, I can’t imagine ever letting my subscription lapse. And in fact while I knew that YouTube was super important, its value just increased ten times over for me and I would easily put YT at the top of the list of the […]
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This is a great use of YouTube. Vintage film cameras in exotic locations just looking pretty. Not even taking photos.
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Experiments in light metering
Update April 27, 2020 – I’ve now published a podcast episode related to these photos. As a follow-up to my previous post regarding my journey to-date in film photography – here is an example of how I’ve approached learning the light metering of a scene. Here are several exposures, taken fairly close in time to […]
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Why I’m shooting with film
Nearly a decade ago Eliza and I began to make our own wine and beer. We started out making quick batches in buckets, carboys, or other small containers. It allowed us to get more familiar with the process of fermenting fruit or barley into one of our favorite drinks. Pressing grapes, 2013 Eventually we graduated […]
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Cleaning up my blog subscriptions (in NNW). Adding some new ones (please send recommendations). Getting ready for a new push into blogging, mostly about photography, and getting some new podcast episodes out. Thinking of scaling back on Twitter and IG.
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Rain over the Virginia Hills – 35mm – February 2020
Eliza and I pulled off the road to get this shot while we were driving north through a gorgeous area of Virginia a few weeks ago.
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I have a lot to share here. A lot! Please stay subscribed. When I come up for air I’ll catch up.
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Shot, developed, and scanned film. Achievement unlocked.
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Went to Georgia. It snowed. Can’t escape February!
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I’m reading a lot of praise for Apple’s updated map information but in my experience, even as recently as today, their information is woefully incomplete. It isn’t even close to Google’s offering.
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I’m a better photographer today than I was 1 year ago. I’m also a worse photographer today than I will be 1 year from now.
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Managed to expose a few frames of film while getting 12,000 steps this morning.
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The photos in Flickr’s Best of 2019 are incredible. Especially that one of the Pacu Jawi by Andrew JK Tan.
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I’m rebuilding my entire photo library management workflow now that I’m back on the Mac. It is taxing.
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Tom Elenbaas in Iceland shot on Google Pixel 2 XL
Tom Elenbaas at Gjáin in Iceland, September 2018 In September 2018, when we visited Iceland, we ran into photographer Tom Elenbaas ankle deep in the waters of Gjáin in the south. I took the above photo of him with my Google Pixel 2 XL. I hadn’t revisited his site in a while but I stopped […]
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Bought a cable release for a dollar at a thrift store and put it to use last night. It is going to come in very handy.
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Business meetings always seem to go a bit better with delicious lattes.
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Selfie.
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I have a backlog of podcast episodes that will be coming soon. So please stay subscribed. Also, tons of film photos in the coming months. It is going to be an exciting 2020.
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Brought back my Hire Me page for 2020. If you’re working on anything interesting, get in touch!
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It’s 2020 and I’m back on the Mac! 😍
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Misc. 50mm – December 2019
50mm – f/1.8 – 1/4000s – ISO 100 50mm – f/1.8 – 1/1600s – ISO 100 Misc. 50mm – December 2019 I’ll remember these photos for a long time, as they were captured on the day I purchased my first film cameras.
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One-Picture-Promise
Rick Sammon, in a piece for Peta Pixel on Seeing, describes the One-Picture-Promise: When you are in a situation, imagine you only have one frame remaining on your memory card, and you can take only one picture. If you think like this, I make you this promise: You will have a more creative photograph. What’s […]
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Star Wars – Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker 👍👍
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