Adobe’s Photography app updates
Big updates across all apps and services from Adobe coinciding with their 99u event. Notably, Creative Cloud went from 100GB to 1TB with no additional cost. I wish Apple would do something…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Taking another social media break
Jake Dahn: In many ways it feels like the more “information” I consume, the more burnt out I become. And: Ideas feel different, though. When I consume a new idea, I fall…
Over the weekend, Emulsive published my guest post in their 5 frames series. Subscribers to my blog will recognize the photos.
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…
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 ideas I had and extend the CLI. And maybe, just maybe I’d pick this project up in the winter and write a Mac app.
This Obsidian app is really very good. It may replace Simplenote for me.
The 16-inch MacBook Pro is very fast.
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…
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…
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.
I’d like to shoot a photo for an album cover.
Jeremy asks what our favorite photo is. Very hard question. But I’d have to choose Disfarmer #41383.
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.
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.
I hope my comprehensive crash reports that I’m sending to Twitter a few times per day are helpful for their team. See example.
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…
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…
My first contact print
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…
I also backed up my site locally – including media and database – something I do not do often enough.
Me, laying down, waiting in line for tickets to Star Wars in May 1999.
Image Credit: Times Tribune Archives
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…
What I saw somewhat recently #64: April 30, 2020
Are you enjoying these links? I know I am. Worlds Largest Puzzle – Seems terribly reasonable that this is priced at only $600. I sent this to my parents half hoping they'd…
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 Skywalker. Oh, but his ordering is approved by me.
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…
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…