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Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020 Recorded in September 2020. Holy cow a new episode! Finally. Sorry for the wait for those that are subscribed to the podcast. I've recorded dozens of episodes that may well never see the light of day – I sort of explain why in this episode. These images were…
Manton Reece: For the Micro.blog 2.0 launch week, we’ve enabled the new bookmark archiving and highlights feature for everyone to try out. Personal blogging has gotten a big boost over the last several years. In part due to people's abhorrence of the policies of the social networks du jour, but also as a direct result of Micro.blog existing….
Jay Sitter, on people expecting technology to suck and just leaving the issues in place rather than fixing them: I’m in no way making light of these people knowing less than me about technology. They’re smart people who just didn’t spend their teenage years installing RAM and hard drives in their basement. I bring it up because what it indicates…
Dangerous photo ops are all the rage on social media. Countless stories over the last decade or so have hit the news about someone trying to get a selfie on a rock ledge, on the balcony of cruise ship at sea, or hanging one-handed from an under construction skyscraper hundreds of feet in the air – only to…
Song Exploder is coming to Netflix – I've been a big fan of Song Exploder for a long time. One of my favorite episodes is Arrival but they are all very good. Now it is coming to Netflix. Long Way Up – I was a huge fan of Long Way Round and Long Way Down (and Jupiter's Travels…
Stephen Hackett: Customization and expression has always been part of personal technology, from this, to MySpace, to putting an Apple sticker on your car, to even picking what brand of home computer you bought in the 1980s. People have always used technology to project something about themselves into the world — just like people do with tattoos, clothes,…
Warning!! I've only just hacked this solution together and I don't fully understand the ramifications of my actions yet. If there are any, I will update this post. First, a bit of context on how I use Photos for Mac (Photos). I do not allow Photos to store my original files within its "package". I have my reasons….
In 2014 I linked to a post that showed DuckDuckGo's daily search volume at roughly 5 million searches per day. In 2015 they had grown to 12 million per day. I hadn't checked in to their stats in a long time until I saw this tweet from them. They are now averaging 67 million searches per day. Their…
Excellent update to my preferred desktop feed reader, NetNewswire. I especially like "Reader View". Here is how it is described. Some sites only publish extracts of their full articles. Reader View can fetch the full article text and show it to you in NetNewsWire, so you don’t have to go to another app. There is a button to…
VSCO revives Kodachrome – To make a Kodachrome-inspired photo filter VSCO went to some pretty great lengths. #filmloadchallenge – A fun internet challenge thingy that I took part in. Some of the entries are pretty great so far. First underwater portrait – Pretty amazing work by Louis Boutan in 1899. Fall foliage map – Good for planning your…
Sarah Manavis: After numerous frustrated attempts to find a major new release, to like, comment on, or reply to messages and reviews, to add what they’ve read to their “shelf” or to discover new titles, users know they’ll be forced to give up, confronted with the fact that any basic, expected functionality will evade them. Sometimes even checking…
👉 Scott Jehl on Twitter: modern web dev is an extreme overreaction to not liking some php
Architectural decay – July & September 2020 Photos of dilapidated buildings, like these two, can be stared at for hours figuring out their histories. What vehicle had that oil leak? Why the plywood? Does that light work? Isn't anyone missing that dumpster? Both photos were shot on the Olympus Stylus 35mm point-and-shoot on Kodak Color Max 400 and…
Jeremy Keith: So that’s my modest proposal. Extend the list of possible values for the type attribute on the button element to include “share” (or something like that). In supporting browsers, it triggers a very bare-bones handover to the OS (the current URL and the current page title). In non-supporting browsers, it behaves like a button currently behaves….
Camerajunky (whose real name I cannot find, so perhaps this is likely on purpose): Of course there is also the fact that to get from the decisive moment to a print or even to a digital file, there is a lot of work involved. Prepare, shoot, make notes, develop,make notes again, scan, process digitally, catalog, select in multiple…
Back in August I linked to Jim Grey's list of photography blogs. At the time I subscribed to nearly every single one with an RSS feed. He has since updated the list a bit so I urge you to check it out. I've created an OPML file of my photography blog subscriptions which includes most of Jim's list…
Matt Webb finds himself on a bit of a tear on his personal blog: I’ve now been writing new posts for 24 consecutive weeks. Multiple posts a week. How on earth? I just calculated it, and I’ve added the live streak count to the site footer. I wonder how long I can keep it up. He goes on…
I can't remember where I first read or heard about Maine's light pollution ordinances but they are something that has been on my mind for many, many years. Successful designs do not threaten nighttime security, safety and utility, but reduce energy waste, emit less light pollution, and keep skies dark. Somewhat recently, near our now old apartment building,…
Austin Kleon: Every time I start a new post, I never know for sure where it’s going to go. This is what writing and making art is all about: not having something to say, but finding out what you have to say. It’s thinking on the page or the screen or in whatever materials you manipulate. Blogging has…
Don't forget, as of this writing there are 67 other lists like this one. Large Format Photography Podcast Flickr Group – I asked the hosts of the LFPP if they wouldn't mind if I created a Flickr Group for it and they said OK. So I did. How Flamingos eat – Fascinatingly odd. Winamp Skin Museum – Working…
Untappd, the app that helps me track the beers I've had, liked, disliked, etc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary. I signed up to Untappd in 2014 and used it for a little while but then kept forgetting to. But then, a few years ago, I decided to give it another try. The app had improved dramatically. In fact,…
35mm • Canon AE1-Program • Kodak Color Plus 200 Through the winery window, Keuka Lake, New York – March 2020 A quick snap on film through a winery window. I miss traveling a lot. I think that is why I'm not looking at or posting my own photos as often as I normally would.
Jack Baty: I’m here to tell you that I can not make it work for me. There’s too much overhead in having to decide what to add to a synced collection and when. And where to keep any synced originals? Do I do that in both apps? And so on. I seem to end up with duplicates for…
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. That's the saying, right? What can also happen, though, is that by doing your hobby as work you can suck all of the joy out of that hobby for yourself. I make some money doing photography. But, by and large, my photography is for me….