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Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

...notes on the landscape, wilderness & photography

January, 2009

People photography
30 | posted under: Website Business · New Images
Jennifer Engstrom, Chicago

Just a quick note announcing that the 'people photography' gallery is now official. I'll continue adding to it as images are prepared. That's right not even a volcano warning stops the presses here…what a crazy place Alaska can be.

I'd like to thank the academy
27 | posted under: Musings

Our friends over at Soho the Dog have handed us the distinguished and no doubt highly coveted "Premios Dardo" award. The rules seem simple even for my coffee-starved brain: pass the award on to five other sites. So here they ...

Working with bad light
26 | posted under: Photography Techniques
Horse Ride, Cody

Summer. High noon. Hazy, piercing light. Those are the conditions in the above photo. You can see the disastrously sharp, contrasty shadows on the back of the saddle and the bright flare from the latigo holder. All common wisdom about ...

Obama's hapaxes
23 | posted under: Nerdiness

In his editorial on January 21, Nicholas Kristof points out that President Obama used the word "Muslim" for the first time in an inaugural address. The term for a word that occurs only once in a literature or a particular ...

Analyzing Photoshop Vibrance and Saturation
19 | posted under: Tech Notes · Nerdiness

One of the new features in photoshop CS4 is a Vibrance adjustment, a feature borrowed from lightroom's development module. It's fairly intuitive to use, but have you ever wondered what exactly this handy little adjustment does? Unlike saturation or hue, ...

Kensignton Mine at the Surpeme Court
14 | posted under: Wilderness

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments (transcript) yesterday in a case involving the Kensington Mine between Juneau and Haines Alaska, which would like to discharge mine tailings into Lower Slate Lake effectively killing the lake. This would appear to be ...

Still Life from the Side of the Road
12 | posted under: New Images · Wilderness
Grass Flower, Studio

[More like this in recent images] *A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's; then, to have seen much and to have nothing, is ...

More People Photographs
09 | posted under: New Images
Chess Player, Chicago

The web host I use for this site just spent the last 24 hours dealing with a massive denial of service attack so things have been a little bumpy here. Now that it looks like they now have it under ...