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Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

...notes on the landscape, wilderness & photography

April, 2009

Slow Month for the Journal
27 | posted under: Website Business · Media
Self Portrait, Cooking Light, In the Kitchen

I have just finished shooting the first week of a five week assignment in Texas for the Department of Agriculture's National Resource Conservation Service. I'll be editing photos and preparing to spend the next four weeks in Texas shooting almost ...

The abyss of uncertainty
13 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Musings · Nerdiness
Fraser Spiral and Müller-Lyer illusions,

While reading the confidently self-assured comments surrounding stories like that of Klavs Bo Christensen and his images, which were recently disqualified from the Danish Press Photography Union Press Photo Awards for excessive photoshop manipulation, I have to remind myself that ...

Stephen Shore Video
09 | posted under: Musings

Stephen Shore managed an incredible success in fine-art photography at a very early age famously getting his photos into the hands of Edward Steichen, who was the curator of photography at the MoMA

Imacon Flextight, SCSI, and OS X 10.5, Leopard
08 | posted under: New Images · Tech Notes

This is a quick note that hopefully will save a few people some of the time I just spent. I use a an old Mac G4 as a development server here to test ideas before they go live. It is ...

The real color
02 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Musings · Photography Techniques
Bronc Rider, Wyoming

Although it's been years since I've loaded a roll of 35mm film into a camera, I still shoot some transparency and b&w film in large and medium formats. I like the options my 4x5 camera affords and the digital options in large format