Wikipedia: The Church of the Nativity (Arabic: كنيسة المهد‎) in Bethlehem is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Christ, and it is considered sacred by followers of both Christianit...

Here's my first attempt at handheld HDR photography using my new Canon EOS 5D Mark II. The setting is Rodin's Gates of Hell at the Cantor Arts Center on the Stanford University campus. I love their description: "The Rodin Sculpture Garden is open all hours, with lighting for nighttime viewing. Admis...

It has been a pretty dark time around here. I'm not going to recount all our troubles, some of them are ongoing and the subject of pending litigation; some of them (wait! many of the same ones!) are just too damn long a story to even begin to draw out in this little corner of the Internet. But i...

photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Luxor on the Las Vegas Strip under snow What happens when an Artic cold front meets moisture laden air fresh the South Pacific? You have a potential for record snowfall in Las Vegas. Las Vegas visitors and locals alike were stunned as they watched snow fall...

Ik weet niet veel van fotografie of fotografiejargon. Daarom vind ik het wel stoer dat ik vandaag een nieuw begrip heb geleerd: HDR-fotografie. HDR staat voor High Dynamic Range. Op Photofacts kun je meer lezen over deze techniek. Ik maakte kennis met HDR op Toxel.com, een website over Design, Inspi...

Letzte Woche und dieses Wochenende haben sich bei mir wieder Fotos angesammelt. Film aus der Billig-Pano-Knipse. Ich hatte ja die letzten Wochen etwas geschummelt hier im Blog ;-). Ich schrieb, ich hätte keinen Film mehr. Tatsächlich habe ich einen Farbfilm durch meine «Jazz 101» durchgelassen. ...

When we got to Jerusalem, we were plopped into the middle of jubilant “Jerusalem Day” celebrations. Delicately put, it is a celebration of the “reunification” of Jerusalem. Less delicately, it is when Israel was attacked in the Six Day War and they not only defended themselve...

This post is simply shots of people at the Umayyad Mosque. It was a people photographer’s paradise. The huge open courtyard gave a long zoom lens place to work, the magnificent architecture gave plausible deniability (it was hard to ascertain whether I was shooting people or architecture; Musl...

The entrance to the Umayyad Mosque, which used to be a church The place for immodestly dressed women to put on provided overcoats The courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque Entryway of the mosque Golden bookshelves An inscription in Greek on the outside wall of the Mosque that reads, “Your kingdom, o...

Filed under: digital cameras hacks, how-to As anyone who has lusted over the technical specifications for Canon's new Digital Rebel XSi knows, the capabilities of the average point and shoot camera are severely limited. Using the CHDK firmware hack, the features of Canon point and shoot cameras can ...