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Improper Photography or What the Texas Troopers Thought Police Think You’re Doing with That Camera Hanging Around Your Neck
Updated: February 10, 2010 - 6:17 am
January 23, 2010 – 6:10 pm | 24 Comments
Improper Photography or What the Texas Troopers Thought Police Think You’re Doing with That Camera Hanging Around Your Neck

Improper Photography. What a chillingly lovely and delicate phrase, “Improper Photography“.
I had run across a headline on one the many online news feeds that I read, “Webster Man Arrested for Improper Photography”.
My first though was, …

15 Photography Gift Ideas
Updated: November 29, 2009 - 10:30 pm
November 29, 2009 – 10:27 pm | 10 Comments
15 Photography Gift Ideas

Here is a list of 15 Photo gift ideas for you or other ;>)

Mad Men in Midtown Manhattan – A Sign of Our Times
Updated: October 2, 2009 - 2:11 pm
October 2, 2009 – 2:11 pm | 2 Comments
Mad Men in Midtown Manhattan – A Sign of Our Times

MadMen, the drama, casts a side glow on

Adobe Photoshop CS5 CS6 Extended Screen Shots – Screen Grabs – Screen Prints
Updated: January 5, 2010 - 9:54 pm
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 CS6 Extended Screen Shots – Screen Grabs – Screen Prints

Screen shots and screen grabs of Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and CS6 have

Qwest Building Implosion Phoenix AZ
Updated: October 2, 2009 - 2:22 pm
September 30, 2009 – 5:18 pm | 6 Comments
Qwest Building Implosion Phoenix AZ

Getting to see and photograph a building implosion is so much better than

Milky Way Galaxy Gigapixel Zoomable Photograph
Updated: January 25, 2010 - 10:02 pm
September 23, 2009 – 3:01 pm | 2 Comments
Milky Way Galaxy Gigapixel Zoomable Photograph

A stunning set of gigantic gigapixel montaged photographs of our Milky Way Galaxy can be zoomed in to

Helmut Newton Found Unbound – Erotic Fashion Photography
Updated: November 17, 2009 - 12:13 pm
June 6, 2009 – 9:05 am | 7 Comments
Helmut Newton Found Unbound – Erotic Fashion Photography

Helmut Newton, master of erotic fashion photography, and his 394 photographs from the exotic photo book, SUMO, are the focus of The Helmut Newton Foundation’s show, SUMO.

13th Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film + Video Festival 2009 – In a Panorama
Updated: May 27, 2009 - 3:20 pm
April 20, 2009 – 11:36 pm | 8 Comments
13th Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film + Video Festival 2009 –  In a Panorama

The Thirteenth Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival 2009 in Tempe, AZ
John Spiak, Curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum is largely

Most Massive Cosmic Collision Photos: Oh, Chandra, You so fine!
Updated: April 19, 2009 - 9:38 pm
April 19, 2009 – 9:38 pm | 2 Comments
Most Massive Cosmic Collision Photos: Oh, Chandra, You so fine!

Four galaxies colliding have been photographed by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and by the Hubble telescope.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 News New Features Upgrade Price Beta Download Rumors When?
Updated: March 5, 2010 - 8:28 pm
April 14, 2009 – 8:30 am | 42 Comments
Adobe Photoshop CS5 News New Features Upgrade Price Beta Download Rumors When?

As we dedicated Photoshop users await the news about Photoshop CS5, gather around the monitor for the latest real info on the anticipated Adobe CS5 release.
What is the latest Adobe Photoshop CS5 News? When will …

How do you choose just one picture? or “The calla lilies are in bloom again.”
Updated: April 11, 2009 - 7:10 pm
April 11, 2009 – 7:07 pm | 8 Comments
How do you choose just one picture? or “The calla lilies are in bloom again.”

How can you choose just one photo out of many? How to decide?

Author’s Photograph Essential In Marking A Book: A Book is Only as Good as the Writer’s Photo
Updated: April 14, 2009 - 2:40 pm
April 7, 2009 – 9:19 am | 4 Comments
Author’s Photograph Essential In Marking A Book: A Book is Only as Good as the Writer’s Photo

Want to get your book published? Say ‘cheesy’!
“Author’s Photograph Essential In Marking A Book” a podcast from NPR

Penn Museum, National Science Foundation, Surviving: The Body of Evidence exhibit, A Memoir
Updated: March 31, 2009 - 1:31 pm
March 30, 2009 – 12:21 pm | 13 Comments
Penn Museum, National Science Foundation, Surviving: The Body of Evidence exhibit, A Memoir

Enduring metaphors – “Surviving: The Body of Evidence” traveling NSF exhibition at the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA. These are but a few impressions from an archeology visitor’s …

Morning Light – When the light is good…shoot
Updated: March 21, 2009 - 10:04 am
March 21, 2009 – 9:32 am | 4 Comments
Morning Light – When the light is good…shoot

Sometimes it’s all about the light and the moment. When the light is good, almost everything seems to have a glow. The textures take on an even more tactile quality than expected. Shoot then, edit …

Useful Lists of ISO Settings – F Stops – Shutter Speeds by third and half stops
Updated: November 17, 2009 - 12:15 pm
March 10, 2009 – 10:22 am | 5 Comments
Useful Lists of ISO Settings – F Stops – Shutter Speeds by third and half stops

This is a practical list of F-stops, Shutter Speeds, and ISO settings showing the one third (1/3) stop and one half (1/2) stop increments as well as the whole stop settings. It is intended to …

The universe appears to be a self-reflecting sphere with the ’self’ at the center
Updated: April 8, 2009 - 12:12 am
February 26, 2009 – 12:09 pm | 6 Comments
The universe appears to be a self-reflecting sphere with the ’self’ at the center

The universe appears to be a self-reflecting sphere with the ’self’ at the center.
All you can see, and therefore photograph, is a reflection of yourself.

Ritz Camera seeks Bankruptcy after attempted murder of local camera stores!
Updated: February 24, 2009 - 12:42 pm
February 24, 2009 – 9:43 am | 3 Comments
Ritz Camera seeks Bankruptcy after attempted murder of local camera stores!

Ritz Camera seeks Bankruptcy after attempted murder of local camera stores!

After a slow speed chase where Ritz Camera tried to drive over local camera dealers with its suburban mall stores and other outlets,

Why take color pictures of a black & white sky? Why photograph the sky?
Updated: February 23, 2009 - 10:42 pm
February 23, 2009 – 10:15 am | 8 Comments
Why take color pictures of a black & white sky? Why photograph the sky?

Need a photography project? Stumped for new ideas? Looking for inspiration? Things are looking up!
This very morning there was an unexpectedly gray cloud cover when I got up.
While not especially photogenic (from where I stood, …