More and more, I am finding myself using my iPod Touch as a pocket watch. For those times my watch is not handy, but my iPod is (which is surprisingly often), I find that I turn to it to check to the time. The font is just large enough that I do not need...
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TIME magazine is highlighting a new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside with a photo essay, Photos by Blind Photographers. TIME describes the exhibit: “A spectacular new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside raises extraordinary questions about the nature of sight.” Photographers include Bruce Hall, who is a fellow member of the...
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The NYTimes ran an article, The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon, with an accompanying audio slideshow today that is worth checking out. The article is inspired byt a retrospective of Avedon’s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography,...
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One of my photos was named Listener Submitted Picture of the Week by a program on our local public radio station: The State of Things on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC. This makes a fifth pick for me by the State of Things. In case this image looks familiar, it ran in the Chapel...
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WUNC’s State of Things chose this photo, Burning Hot, as the  Listener Submitted Picture of the Week for the week of 3/16 – 3/21. I think that this might be my fourth go around. Thanks, SoT! PS You can catch the Stato of Things at lunchtime on WUNC in North Carolina or via their...
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The iPhone Mail app offers an adjustable minimum font size. It is not obvious how to access this setting. Apple buried this feature in the Settings app and can not be accessed from the Mail app itself. From the home screen, tap on the Settings app. Then tap on the Mail, Contacts & Calendars...
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Here is s slideshow from my firefighter training shoot. Seven more images will be added over the next week. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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Google Maps is a great thing. There is no question about it. But it is not perfect. Surprisingly, it suffers from the same gripe I have with map books and atlases. I can not read the print. It is simply too small, no matter how much you zoom in. This is true both on...
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I was in an odd humor this afternoon. I took my camera out, which I have not done in a while, to try and capture the mood, so to speak. As usual, it did not work out as planned. My tripod and light stand were in the parking lot at my wife’s work in...
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The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. “The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.” Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at the...
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The New York Times blog,
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I had two best men at my wedding. Their tandem toast revolved around my relationship to BPR. Addiction may be the word they used. So, as I was browsing the iPhone app store on my iPod Touch, I could not resist testing out NPR Mobile when I ran across it. NPR Mobile is an...
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The wrestling marathon that I blogged about last night in Wrestling Outtakes paid off. The best image from the last match I shot made it into this morning’s paper in black and white. The original color version is below. In this shot, Corey Mock, headed for a fourth straight state championship, dominates the championship...
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As I mentioned at the end of last week, I spent much of Saturday Pinning Down Some Wrestiling Images. After spending eight hours navigating brackets, changing batteries, squatting at mat edges and dealing with a hot, crowded gym, I came home with well over two hundred photos. Three were submitted to the photo editors...
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While shooting the women’s basketball game last week (see Wildcats v. Falcons in the Paper), I took of few pictures of the cheerleading squads. Despite not having thrown enough light their way, several shots came out reasonably well. This one above is the best of the cheerleader series. It is popular on Flickr as...
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