These rocks reminded me of the Pacman game character or perhaps Steven King’s Langoliers. Paul Lester’s post, “Downward trends“, caused me to consider my own photography. Paul wrote: I find that I tend to stay in the middle range and don’t so much venture out into ultra-wid...

In April 2007, I transfered Meandering Passage to Media Temple (MT) based upon the promise of their Grid Service (GS) hosting solution…scaleable and able to spread a load across a wide array of servers and disk units to give reliable hosting. What I’ve experienced with Media Temple and t...

Paul Lester became a new Mac owner/user this week. There’s many reason for switching from Windows to the Mac OS X platform–Paul explained some of his here. Paul, as a Photographer and having many photography friends, was exposed to a higher percentage of Mac users then perhaps someone in...

Photos: Colonial Capital building , Archways and Clock Tower - Colonial Williamsburg, VA I doubt anyone has escaped the current economy downturn–either first hand experience or knowing someone who’s been affected. For sure anyone with a 401K retirement account has seen their funds shrink...

Rooflines - A solid grey sky formed an almost perfect backdrop for these metal roofs framed by trees and topped by brick red chimneys. I think the angles and colors form an interesting image. An event I watched and read yesterday keeps flashing through my mind. “I’m here on television sa...

I’ve been thinking about my workflow for processing photos into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. When I go for a photo walk around or a photo project I tend to take a good number of photos but only save about 60% of what I shoot. This hard culling of photos happens at the front in my import process....

As I sat down at my computer this morning I noticed a nightly back-up job window open with a failed status and the associated external Firewire 800 backup drives unmounted. I cycled the firewire device off then back on and the drives seemed to mount but upon restarting the back-up a loud distinct &#...

This past holiday season Netbook computers were a leading seller for Amazon, and thanks to my dear wife I was a lucky recipients of one of those sales. I received a Sapphire Blue Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch (1.6 GHz Atom Proc, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Netbook. One of the most appea...

I now shoot exclusively in RAW format and then convert the RAW files into DNG files when importing into Adobe Lightroom. My back-up process (see section below) doesn’t include any long term saving of the original RAW files. I’m curious if others would recommend saving the original RAW fi...

So, Nikon introduced a new “Big Kahuna” in it’s digital SLR camera lineup, the 24.5 MP D3x. It’s specifications are impressive and after looking at released sample photos the results are impressive as well. I’m sure there’s photographers who will put this added re...