Photography books that aren’t clearly textbooks aren’t generally my thing. Even then, there’s so much good information available online that buying a book often seems like a waste of money. Even from that perspective, I’m always looking for new inspiration and new techniques and every time someone recommends a book, I tend to want to [...]

 March, 2009 The Moment it Clicks Reviewed

It’s the wrong time of day, the lighting is all wrong, and I wasn’t even there to shoot but just incase I had my camera and apparently just incase isn’t a bad thing. The short of it, I was at Green Cay this afternoon, showing my grandmother around before she goes back home. 1100 to [...]

 March, 2009 Shoot Nothing, Get Something?

I’m not <insert big name photographer here>, I don’t have the luxury of investing massive amounts of cash into protecting my digital photography. For the last 4 years or so I’ve relied on a 3-disk RAID 5 array to safeguard my data. Yes, I know RAID isn’t a backup nor will it protect me against [...]

 February, 2009 Finely Some Piece of Mind

My Sanibel island trip was rather less than stellar due to fog, but produced some nice shorebird images. Ding Darling NWR wasn’t all that active, unless you count the people, though a Bald Eagle made an appearance.

 February, 2009 Back from Sanibel

A quick test of the practical implications of diffraction, at 1:1 and web resolutions.

 January, 2009 Quick Diffraction Test

I woke up this morning to the shrill beeping of my LSI logic SATA RAID card’s alarm indicating that a drive had failed. And sure enough my 500GB array holding my precious data was running in a degraded state. Alas I’m lucky that it was only 1 drive in the array, and not more or [...]

 January, 2009 Just a Friendly Reminder, Backup Your Data

I was at the southern end of the Everglades (Flamingo, FL) yesterday, so here’s the wildlife update from the trip. There were Roseate Spoonbills in Eco Pond, a handful at least. As well as White Ibis, and a couple of Great Blue Herons. The Osprey population at Flamingo seems pretty healthy, there are several nests [...]

 January, 2009 South Everglades, Flamingo Update

This one’s quick. I just saw this image and story(nppa.org) over at the National Press Photographers association website of the President Obama’s Inauguration. While the story is wroth reading, though it doesn’t give many details about anything really, what’s I think is probably most important to take away from this is the use of remotes [...]

 January, 2009 Why Remote Cameras Rock

I just got back from both the Northeast corner of the everglades (via airboat launched from Everglades Holiday Park in Broward county) and Green Cay, and there’s not a whole lot going on out there. Water levels in the ‘glades are still pretty high, though I forgot to look at the reading on one of [...]

 January, 2009 Northeast Everglades, and Green Cay

I had been looking for a good solid text that explained the what and why of making strong images. The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman is that book. This book isn’t another one of those introductory how to take a better picture books; it doesn’t talk at all about how a camera works or how [...]

 January, 2009 The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos Reviewed
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