Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...