Mr. Ed Goes to South Park in Black & White
Great music of 2012: the (slightly past) halfway check-in, part 2
Let’s see, who else are we loving so far in 2012? Ah, here’s one. Ryan Shaw: Real Love – I’ve been a fan of Shaw’s since … well, since I first heard him maybe three years ago. Gods, what a voice. I have argued that had he come along in the mid-1960s we’d now be remembering him favorably alongside the likes
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A little compost shed at the Denver Botanic Gardens. My personal favorite shot of this set, although I appear to be alone in this…
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Taken at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Read moreObama’s expanding crimes against our civil liberties: what if he’s right?
Much has been said and written about Mr. Obama’s distressing record on civil liberties. Many have gone so far as to argue that he’s worse than his predecessor, that he has assumed powers that are strictly forbidden by the Constitution, that he has begun acting more like a king than a president. These critics have a mountain of objective data
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ArtSunday: US 285, South Park, Colorado
Upgraded
The fact that my Nikon D3100 wouldn’t do bracketing was driving me bonkers. I mean, it isn’t like I’m so talented that I had outgrown it or anything, but still. So now I have a D90. Which means I have even less excuse for sucking… 🙂
Read moreFairview School: Ohio Creek, Gunnison, CO
Great music of 2012: the (slightly past) halfway check-in, part 1
I always do my year-end best music list, but it’s also fun to take note of where we are at the halfway pole. Or, in this case, the 7/12 pole. So here’s some of what I’ve been digging on so far this year. The Blueflowers: Stealing the Moon – Their 2011 release was one of my very best of the year,
Read moreJunker – Ohio Creek, Gunnison, Colorado (variations on a theme)
Junker – Ohio Creek, Gunnison, Colorado (Variations on a Theme)
Another shot from my Gunnison outing. The sun wasn’t where I needed it to be, hence that damned flare. Anyway, I did three takes on this one, just for fun. Above I applied a posterization filter. Below is a light film grain take. And at the bottom is the basic, unmessed-with version.
Read moreFacebook’s bad year just got worse
It’s an interesting time to be Facebook. You know, as in the old Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times.” They’ve been the target of freedom and privacy advocates for some time. All the way back in 2008 I was talking about the company’s anti-privacy tendencies and arguing that things were only going to get worse for the citizenry. More recently, I
Read moreThe More I Learn, the Expensiver It Gets
I bought my first camera maybe three months ago – a Nikon D3100. A nice, entry-level DSLR that I could learn on and maybe even take a few good shots with. At the time, I knew diddley about photography other than a) I liked it, and b) I wanted to know how to do it myself. Specifically, at that time
Read moreUS 285, South Park, Colorado – Alternate Take
On the previous post Dawn and Andy Beel had some interesting advice for cropping the image. I did it that way originally because my goal as a shooter is to some day match Andreas Feininger’s epic Route 66, Arizona high-sky masterpiece. Probably I’m not there yet. So here’s their suggested crop. I like it.
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