Every picture tells two or three stories. At least. If you aren’t a photographer, you may not think about processing. But I have learned, over the past two and a half years, just how important those decisions can be. Everything from the basic choice of how to crop all the way to what kinds of heinous digital fuckery to employ
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There’s been some back and forth here in the last couple of weeks about Ello, the new social network. If you’re on Ello, or are thinking of joining, here are some people you might want to investigate and possibly follow. Let’s start with the S&R folks. @docdenny is, as you know, god of macro photography, and lately he’s been experimenting with
Read moreScholars & Rogues has been around for seven and a half years or so, and during that time we have evolved. Early on we were a political blog with a culturalist bent. These days we’re a “journal of progressive culture” – in a nutshell, we’re a culture blog informed by a strong political foundation. Our writing wanders far and wide,
Read moreIf you don’t know our sister site, 5280 Lens Mafia, you’re missing out. Here’s some of the wonderfulness from the past few days. Up first, Dr. Denny, who has been doing some wonderful things with the Oil Paint filter.
Read moreClassic 1933 Graham, photographed at the recent Greenwood Car Show in Seattle.
Read morePhotographers know to always be ready. The best shot may be the one you aren’t expecting. The Balloons Over Bend festival was in town this weekend. I got up early this morning and headed down to Riverbend Park to hopefully get some nice shots of hot air balloons, which I have never photographed before. I found a spot up on
Read moreHot Nun, Veronica Falls and Fish released wonderful CDs last year that belong on my top albums of the year list. As noted some time back, there are always CDs I don’t get around to during the year in which they’re released, and with the great ones I accordingly fail to include them in my year-end mentions. I’ve already done a
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