Systrom and Krieger resign from Instagram
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How to transfer photos from iPhone to Windows 10
Occasionally I will have need to transfer photos from Eliza's iPhone X to my Windows 10 laptop. I've found the process of transferring the photos to be excruciatingly slow, unreliable, and frustrating….
Photos for Mac isn’t a long term photo library option
Bradley Chambers, writing for 9to5Mac, about his photo library backup strategy: If there is one thing I am obsessed with when it comes to technology, it’s my pictures. I keep them extremely…
Om Malik on Google Photos vs Apple Photos
I've finally found some time this morning to read Om Malik's post on Google Photos vs Apple Photos – a post that has been sitting in my Unmark queue since the day…
On the acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug
Thomas Hawk: As someone who joined Flickr back in 2003 pre-Yahoo and has been on the site pretty much daily since then, I thought I’d share my own thoughts on what this…
Best of 2017 as told by me
To create this list I sat down and wrote from the top of my head the things I could remember being awesome in 2017. The list isn't exhaustive. It is just what…
What comes after Instagram?
Victoria Wright on Twitter: Photo friends// are you regularly sharing your work somewhere other than on @instagram? I’m so over them deciding what I see and don’t see The thread is interesting….
Recent grams
I'm trying my hand at Instagram again. This time I've created my own filter using Snapseed which I've named ColinGram2018. I'm taking some photos I've published here and re-editing them with some…
Curiosity takes a selfie
APOD: This selfie was compiled from many smaller images — which is why the mechanical arm holding the camera is not visible. In case you're not impressed, notice this comment on Reddit…
Doug Lane’s Micro.blog photo challenge
Doug Lane: I thought we could start on Saturday (Nov. 11) and go for seven days. He has a theme for each of the 7 days. I'm in.
\”My Fares\” by Joseph Rodriguez
Joseph Rodriguez: It was not unusual to see shoe-shiners outside of Grand Central. They’re not there anymore. I think it’s a Banana Republic now. Incredible photo portfolio backed with incredible stories. /via…
Austin Mann’s iPhone 8 Plus camera review
Austin Mann: While the iPhone 8 Plus looks essentially the same as the phone we’ve had since the 6 Plus, there are some new features in the 8 Plus which really impact…
Capturing the ISS’s transit of the Sun during the eclipse
This is quite a feat. Photographer Trevor Mahlmann figured out where you'd need to be within the path of totality in order to capture the International Space Station transiting the sun during…
Aerial photos of a few wineries
In late April Eliza and I took a weekend day drive to visit some wineries in the tristate area of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We wanted to visit a few…
Multiple photos and videos in a single post on Instagram
Instagram: With this update, you no longer have to choose the single best photo or video from an experience you want to remember. Now, you can combine up to 10 photos and…
Photos app updated on iCloud
Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major…
Thirty days of images
Each morning, at around 9am Eastern, a new image is published to my blog. I schedule these posts each weekend (I even built a WordPress plugin to help me) and they publish…
How to fix bad thumbnails in Photos on macOS Sierra
Since updating to macOS Sierra my Photos library will show some bad thumbnails that are either completely black or have black "bars" on them. Here is just one example that I managed…
Exploring Conservation Island in Promised Land State Park
It takes me just over an hour get to Promised Land State Park. (See also, park map.) Because it isn't too close to home I've only been to this park twice. Once…
Save your Faces before upgrading to macOS Sierra
I've been tweeting, and created a Moment, regarding the fact that Photos on macOS Sierra has gotten rid of the "Faces" feature in favor of a new "People" feature. This wipes out all…
Dan Rubin’s iPhone 7 Plus ring light portraits
Friend Dan Rubin took the new iPhone 7 Plus out for a test-drive using a ring light. On whether or not the iPhone 7 Plus is the best smartphone to get for…
Tips for new drone owners
After a few weeks of trial and error, (lots, and lots of error) video tutorial binging, manual devouring, and literally swimming for and losing my first UAV, I thought it might be…
Taking flight
I had been thinking and talking about buying a UAV, drone, quadcopter* (whatever you personally call them) for a long time now. Many months. When they first hit the scene they were…
Add a hobby that forces you to explore
I've been thinking a lot about a quote Matt Mullenweg wrote about earlier this year. It reads: Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and…
What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10
Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of…
Got Loop’d
It is always a pleasure to be linked to from The Loop. Yesterday, one of my posts about Photos for OS X and what I think can be done to improve it,…
Wirelessly transfer files from a GoPro using any computer without software
Follow me on Twitter. And be sure to subscribe to my blog. (Skip to the bottom of this post if you just want to know how to connect to your GoPro using…
Thomasz Furmanek, Kayaker, Instagrammer
I've been following Thomasz Furmanek on Instagram for a few years already (right around the time I got my first kayak, the Oru Kayak, which is the same one Furmanek uses). I liked…
Improving Photos for OS X and iOS and iCloud Photo Library
I’ll start out this post, as most empathic developers would, by saying that I realize how hard syncing is. It is incredibly hard to get right. The fact that it works at…
Microsculpture by Levon Bliss
Incredible composite photos of insects by Levon Bliss. My final images are made up of somewhere between 8 and 10 thousand images. He takes as many photos of one insect as Eliza…