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• One more reason the press is dying
• Cheap scans
• Another 10 years?
• Large prints on canvas
• Your DNA on the wall
• The iPhone 2.0 debacle
• Real Chicago
• Ring flash
• The King
• Machismo
• Canon 1Ds Mark III
• Monocolor
• Bring your own …. drop cloth!
• Just add lightness
• Beauty
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• The last time the Olympics were relevant
• Cuil.com
• Worth a thousand words
• Hyperfocal distance calculator
• NYC Architecture - some snaps
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• NYC architecture by Woody Allen

• More NYC architecture
• Lightroom 2
• Pictures from my Window
• Architectural photography
• Photography podcasts
• Canon sensors and the 5D
• Duh!
• Five criteria
• Photographers and The Cloud
• Cutting your losses
• Modern Rothko
• The problem with small sensors
• iPhone at work
• Debunking the iPhone
• Spot the difference
• Blue
• Coming closer to God
• Cataloging movies and books
• Learning monochrome
• iPhone photography applications
• iPhone 2.0 software
• Reassuring myself
• Macro podcast
• Elephantiasis
• The Machines
• Bargain of the year
• Lest we forget
• Ink and paper supplies
• The bad old days
• Great news from Nikon
• How (not) to sell your gear

• Meet the new MacBook
• Canon and Goebbels
• Macro Day
• Form and Function
• About the snap: Gamblers
• Tools
• Flies
• Ooops!
• Phil Brown - photographer
• It was twenty years ago today ….
• Brand awareness
• NAS the simple way
• The Man who was Never Caught
• Patrick Demarchelier
• Attention spans
• There goes another $50,000
• Photography books and wine
• Apple - second thoughts
• Shutterfly

• More awesomeness
• Snap! $1.3 billion.
• Which is better?
• Sigma DP1 - pass
• Maybe anyone can do it?
• Let there be light
• No more Hyperdrive
• Mr. Rabbit
• Canon 100mm Macro - Part I
• Macro lenses
• Easy birds
• A handy brush
• Venus
• A terabyte or two
• Enjoying processing
• Light pools
• No loitering
• Vesuvio
• Alone

• After Hopper
• Missed it!
• Guernica
• Grab a Seat
• Where the good stuff is
• Resist the temptation
• Windows and Door
• Serial dropping
• Maserati
• DxO Optics Pro Elite
• Cockeyed
• Enhanced error correction
• Themes have their uses
• Bud
• Full Time Manual Focus
• Nuts?!
• Toys
• iTMS podcasts
• About the snap: Eyes
• Apple TV and Jaman movies
• Our Keith
• The red shoes
• The Balloon
• Lightroom 2.0
• Pros strut their stuff
• Violence

• Latest Canon 5D firmware
• Secular thinking
• The Transamerica pyramid
• Aperture 2.1
• Vince Laforet again
• Adobe - shame on you
• Municipal Logic
• The Panasonic LX-1 revisited
• A face in the window
• As the chaps at Monty Python once put it ….
• How not to design a user interface
• Point gun at foot, aim, fire
• The real capacity of storage cards
• Two years with the Canon 5D
• About the snap: Marion Campbell
• Innovation is not invention
• An awesome gadget
• Notes on Tosca
• René Maltête
• At the Moscone Center
• Importing into Lightroom
• RSS
• More on Lightroom printing
• A pastoral interlude
• Evil
• Tracking warranties
• Lightroom and round trips
• The power of RAW
• BookEndz docking station for the MacBook
• Nine West 57th Street
• Fun with Google Earth
• Lightroom defaults
• A good try
• Lightroom Tutorials
• Making an external drive bootable
• Enhanced searching for this blog
• A great picture of a great man
• Apple TV revisited
• A bank has an original idea
• Mac Book - another hard disk upgrade

• Raphael and advertising
• Lightroom soft proofing and printing
• HP Designjet printer head cleaning and repair
• Paint Job
• Lightroom on an older Mac
• Migrating to Lightroom from Aperture
• A cheap remote for the Canon 5D
• Aperture 2.0 - Part III
• A slice of LIFE - by Peter Solmssen
• Ludwig Schricker - Photographer
• Aperture 2.0 - Part II
• Winston and Vermeer
• News and Standard!
• Aperture 2.0 - Part I
• Sharp and unsharp
• About the snap: Balloon seller
• Make a big enough mistake ….
• Early Penn
• Leitz Trinovid binoculars
• AppleTV as a photography device
• Edward Quinn - Photographer
• A welcome winter visitor

• Sigma DP1 finally due?
• Competition is back!
• Big Brother, your camera and you
• Is Aperture dead?
• GAF 500 is back!
• Frescos and photography
• Favorite posts of 2007

• Goodbye 2007
• Picture frames
• Christmas carols
• Christmas Carols
• 2007 Best (and Worst) of the Year awards
• Canon 5D - time to wait
• Canon’s big guns
• A palliative
• Q & A
• History repeats itself
• Matt Stuart
• Canon 400mm f/5.6 ‘L’ lens - Part II
• Canon 400mm f/5.6 ‘L’ lens - Part I
• Medium Format digital

• Sigma DP1 - how not to communicate
• You can take the boy ….
• Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.
• Colors and shapes
• About the Snap: General Motors Building
• About the Snap: Madison Avenue
• Wall Street
• Mac Book enhanced

• Autumn
• Don’t let Leopard bite you in the ….
• Leigh Sheldon
• Arounder Magazine
• The Cocktail Hour
• Mass storage
• After the harvest
• Autumn
• Civilisation
• Classics
• The Nikon D3 being built
• Failure rates and fraud
• Black Swans and photography
• Rosie the Riveter

• Marketing and choice
• Pool
• Rates of change
• Vince Laforet
• How much is too much?
• Ways of Seeing
• Better HTML Export
• Dark frames = bright pictures
• About the snap: Green
• Live View
• A fine British photographer
• A good message needs few words
• A Lightroom user’s experience
• Better sound
• Small is chic
• Aperture and Lightroom
• Keeping cool
• MacBook as a desktop computer

• Aperture and video cards
• Sad moment
• The ultimate travel kit
• Screen calibration
• Meet my new Aperture computer
• Total heaviosity
• Well, it’s about time!
• Backing up the MacBook
• MacBook upgrades for Aperture
• The new MacBook
• Photojournalism is dead

• Norman Parkinson
• Guy Bourdin
• They still don’t get it
• This site is now iPhone optimized
• David Seymour
• iPhone - Part IV
• Full frame DSLR from Sony?
• iPhone - Part III
• iPhone - Part II
• iPhone - Part I
• Teaser
• About the Snap: Lovers

• Keld and I
• Leica M8 redux
• Canon 20mm - some further thoughts
• About the Snap: Holocaust memorial
• Picture Styles in the Canon 5D
• Robert Doisneau
• The Tuileries garden
• About the Snap: Beached whales
• Aperture file export to your ISP
• How does it look on my iPhone?
• Aperture now has enhanced RAW capabilities
• Taste and discretion
• New iMacs coming
• Horst P. Horst
• George Hoyningen-Huene
• About the Snap: Wrapped Heads
• About the Snap: Sunday paper
• Pushing it
• Publishing with Blurb - Part II
• A touch of the surreal
• Software I use
• The woeful state of consumer digital cameras
• Canon 5D sensor dust
• Ilse Bing
• Canon’s 20mm f/2.8 lens
• HP - reality check needed
• Canon and collimation
• About the Snap: Bermuda
• Trust but verify
• Street rods
• Medium format digital starter camera - $10k
• How to clear a cocktail party

• Google goes QTVR
• Publishing with Blurb - Part I
• Canon 5D - can you say speed?
• Happy Memorial Day
• Beating the burn
• Death
• More desaturation
• What to do with $2,500?
• Botox Bride
• Point-and-shoot and Hank Carter
• About the snap: Rocker
• A Wii lesson for camera makers
• Beaton in the Sixties
• Vision
• The problem with P&S cameras
• About the Snap: Bergie’s
• My photography books on the web
• Cataloging books
• About the Snap: Keep Left
• Jacques-Henri Lartigue
• Desaturation in Aperture
• About the Snap: Hewitts
• Aperture - just add speed
• Mirror slap in the 5D revisited
• Spot the film user
• André Kertész
• Winston Hofler - Photographer
• About the Snap: St. James’s Park
• Mirror slap in the Canon 5D
• Shake a Leg

• How times change
• About the snap: Terns at Oceano Dunes
• Morning Paper 2
• California sky
• Finally over $100
• Morning Paper 1
• Balloons
• Go where the money is
• Walker Evans: Signs
• About the Snap: The Painter
• Saul Leiter
• A good laugh
• About the Snap: Max
• About the Snap: Perry’s
• You probably do not need a 5D
• Canon 5D in use
• Thomas Eakins
• Bob Carlos Clarke
• Beating the system
• Afternoon Sun
• High viewpoint
• Do not do this for a living
• The show is on!

• My show at Castoro Cellars
• Ghetto Mac?
• Listmania
• Keeping it clean and making the loupe functional
• Window view, more Mono
• One color, not Club Mono
• More monochrome
• Black and White is dead
• Getting ready for the show
• The power of RAW
• Wither now
• Slide shows are back
• Formula One - Bravo Honda!
• Canon EOS 5D Macho model
• 250 ASA
• Why Lightroom is a good thing
• Another unnecessary solution
• Pentax 645 Digital feels heat from Canon
• Mounting hell
• Solutions looking for problems
• Sigma DP1 - update
• High contrast scenes
• Music box photography is back
• Olympus gets IS right
• The biggest loss in the demise of the LP ….

• HP DesignJet 90 ink use
• Apple’s Pages revisited
• A good snort
• Printer profiles and root canals
• Time for a Canon 5D upgrade
• That Canon wonder lens again
• Annie Leibovitz
• Stills and movies
• Cheap and good
• The Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens in the studio
• Meet the new Kodak
• Great pictures! You must have an expensive camera.
• Shockproof Olympus
• On a roll….
• Management by dreams

• The rebate game
• Lorraine Daley
• No more cheating?
• I wish Apple designed cameras
• In the dark
• Predictions for 2007
• Happy New Year

• Goodbye 2006
• Shadows
• On the BART
• Merry Christmas
• 2006 Best (and Worst) of the Year awards
• Early birds
• Photoshop CS3
• Full aperture
• One hundred yards - Part V
• The Gutenberg effect
• Second fifteen
• Zealotry
• No more Great Photographers?
• Paranoia
• Free Canon 5D
• One hundred yards - Part IV
• Bigger and faster
• The (wife’s) new iMac

• A tale of two lenses
• HP ink costs
• The Christmas snap
• A fool and his money….
• One hundred yards - Part III
• Aperture for monochrome pictures - Part II
• The Leica M8 debacle
• Giving Thanks
• Kitsch
• Cheaper and cheaper
• Framing Really Big Prints
• One hundred yards - Part II
• For your Christmas stocking
• Vibration Reduction
• Remote strobe trigger
• Digital Camera RAW Support Update 1.0.1
• Aperture for monochrome pictures - Part I
• Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory
• Sigma DP1 - a true Leica replacement?
• More censorship from Leica
• One hundred yards - Part I
• Leica’s Watergate
• Leica M8 quality control
• Finally you can use Panasonic LX-1 RAW with Aperture
• Balls
• Film or Digital
• Digital schmigital
• Withdrawal symptoms
• Late sun
• Just a snap
• A Doggy portfolio
• Aperture 1.5.1
• Working at widescreen
• Grain

• Fun at the Apple store
• Kodak sensors
• Ralph Gibson - Deus ex Machina
• The Teds
• Chavez Ravine, 1949
• Mounting Really Big Prints
• Aspect ratios
• Studio Flash
• Pages for books
• Stuff
• Leica - Witness to a Century
• Print the facts, forget the rumors
• Take 55
• A part of me is no more
• Did he, or didn’t he?
• Keeping it simple
• Cameras and loyalty
• Margaret Bourke-White - early work
• Two rocks
• Five stars
• Richard Gere - Photographer
• Canon lens quirk
• Ugly sells
• Skrebneski - Portraits
• Tailor the Adjustments HUD in Aperture 1.5
• HP DesignJet Z photo printer
• Fourteen minutes and thirty-three seconds
• Aperture 1.5 - Part V
• Aperture 1.5 - Part IV

• Aperture 1.5 - Part III
• Aperture 1.5 - Part II
• Cameras and boat anchors
• Someone at Sigma is thinking
• Aperture 1.5 - Part I
• Well done Epson
• Label drinkers
• Now film really is dead
• How to run a photo business
• Samsung rises
• Political photography
• Never underestimate the consumer’s taste
• Ergonomics and cameras
• Vanities
• Multi-media rocks!
• Cheap sound recording for your computer
• Aperture 2.0
• Sanity check - Leica M8
• My darkroom
• Cheap pretentiousness
• Sound memories
• The photo gallery of the future
• Quicktime movie enhancements
• More lies from CBS
• The B&H AV catalog arrrives
• A fine HDR tutorial
• Always carry …. a sound recorder?
• Keld rediscovered
• The best $140 you will ever spend
• Digital tampering
• Slideshows with music

• Enhanced QTVR interactive features
• Aperture 2.0? My wish list.
• Joseph Sudek
• Canon 5D sensor dust revisited
• Canon EOS 400D
• QTVR on the big screen
• Costly excess
• A Blast from the Past
• QTVR on the TV screen
• Surrounded
• A predictable disappointment
• Adding sound to QTVR panoramas - Part III
• More hype
• Adding sound to QTVR panoramas - Part II
• More on single image tone mapping
• QTVR panoramas on my web site
• Another sound panorama
• Strong foregrounds make for strong panoramas
• Thrill to the sights and sounds of racing Porsches
• Change or die
• Adding sound to QTVR panoramas - Part I
• Be sceptical
• Single image tone mapping
• Saving one’s rear
• Adjusting the QTVR image
• Getting rid of zenith and nadir ‘holes’
• Quality VR photography
• Candid Virtual Reality
• Payola and conflicts of interest
• Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye
• There’s one born every minute
• Abroad with the New York Times
• A career self portraitist
• Fuji and Kodak - birds of a feather
• Good advice from Frans Lanting

• Senility is a nasty thing
• Test your Photo IQ
• A (QTVR) brush with the law
• Finally, a QTVR HDR real life panorama
• QuickTime + High Dynamic Range photography
• Free Ruler
• King Pano head and PTMac - Part III
• More disinformation
• I like Leicas as much as the next man….
• King Pano head and PTMac - Part II
• Two excellent new Aperture tutorials
• King Pano head - Part I
• From self-publicity central
• Problems with peppers
• Some more thoughts on ImageAlign
• We are just scratching storage densities
• The trouble with Flickr
• Finally, a good HDR image
• ImageWell
• When all else fails, change your logo
• This just in from Reuters
• Diane Arbus - fake.
• Fast landscape
• Cropping is just a tool
• Hyper-wide candids
• Slim Aarons and rich people
• Safari rocks!
• At the beach with Eugene Boudin
• A plug-in for filmies
• Canon EOS 5D firmware update
• Some outdoor HDR experiments
• July 4, 2006
• Photomatix HDR
• A first HDR experiment
• High Dynamic Range photography
• Redwoods redux

• So you thought f/1.4 was fast?
• Jack Dykinga - nature photographer
• Time to consult your user base, Apple
• A great Quick Release tripod attachment
• Downtown Manhattan
• Simple lines and colors
• Kodachrome
• Street Photographs - Juan Buhler
• It’s the software, stupid
• Aperture version 1.1.2
• Digital Leica - not!
• Another hosing for the taxpayer
• Light spotted at end of Rochester tunnel?
• Virtual Reality comes to town
• Twenty photographs
• Ten predictions for the next twelve months
• One year later
• In search of Edward Hopper
• Into the sun
• The new face of journalism
• Fishy snapshots
• The digital Leica M
• Self, self, self
• Canon 15mm Fisheye lens - Part III
• More competition
• Web sites for photographs
• Canon 15mm Fisheye lens - Part II
• A RAW mess
• Canon 15mm Fisheye lens - Part I
• Juan Buhler - the best street photographer.

• Facades
• In the studio
• Canon 200mm f/2.8 ‘L’ lens
• Looking at pictures
• The Leicaflex SL
• The Leica DP - Part VI
• Miles Storey’s Mute photoblog
• In the flower garden
• Shutter lag
• Tut, tut, Apple
• Pentax does it right
• Not really luck
• Recapturing the Leica spirit
• Controls and confrontation
• The most fun I ever had taking pictures
• Fun with the B&H catalog
• A real workout
• Backing-up on the go
• The designer as star
• Dismemberment needed
• The Leica DP - Part V
• Still movies
• The Leica DP - Part IV
• The Leica DP - Part III

• The Leica DP - Part II
• The Leica DP - Part I
• Competition lives
• Digital waste
• Apple’s Aperture - now just $130
• Early photographic vision
• Boxers
• Stamp out sensor dust
• Nothing changes
• A simple precaution
• Happy Birthday Apple Computer!

• Wither digital?
• Your nearest and dearest
• New EOS 5D firmware
• And now for some pictures
• Global interest
• Apple’s Aperture - Part IV
• Apple’s Aperture - Part III
• Apple’s Aperture - Part II
• Apple’s Aperture - Part I
• Harry Callahan
• Elton John’s collection
• Walker Evans
• HP DesignJet 90 - Part IV
• HP Designjet 90 - Part III
• HP DesignJet 90 - Part II
• HP DesignJet 90 - Part I
• Gary Winogrand
• Long thoughts
• Canon’s EOS Capture
• Robert Capa
• Noise
• Tony Ray Jones
• Breaking up
• Robert Frank
• Choices
• A ten year digital device
• Tony Snowdon
• A break in the storm
• Paul Strand
• After the Purge
• Elliott Erwitt
• Bill Brandt
• A Gorgeous Bit o’ Bottle

• Fixing distortions
• Image processing
• Excuse me while I examine my Portlait setting through the Glid
• Joe’s NYC
• Digital Dust
• The Man, The Image and The World
• Monochrome flashback
• Hearst’s Castle
• Brassai
• Taking Rube Goldberg for a spin
• Worlds in a Small Room
• Daniel Gomes
• Steam, Steel and Stars
• Wetzlar goes to Tokyo
• On speed
• Anything but digital
• Eliot Porter
• Limekiln
• Fix that flap
• Cecily
• Upstrap in action
• Messing about
• Quality is subjective
• Some prints yield a fond goodbye to medium format
• That first ‘roll’
• Pandora’s Box
• Erwin Blumenfeld

• Putting my money….
• At the movies
• Hurry. It’s almost over.
• Stumbling about.
• Cameras and aesthetic design
• 2005 - taking stock.
• Will the last person leaving Rochester please put the lights out?

• Delgate the drudge of routine printing

• Irving again

• Best and Worst
• At the printers

• Pseuds Corner
• There’s nothing quite like mounting.
• Storage is cheap - and I don’t mean hard copies
• The Photographer-Mule migrates up-market.
• Good Photographs and Car Accidents
• Forget Technique
• More large format adventures
• Is it enough if you just enjoy it?
• An exchange of shared values
• Anonymous writes
• Stop wasting Time - Part II
• Stop wasting Time - Part I
• Quality Time with Ansel
• If all else fails, Make Mine Monochrome.
• Really Large Prints
• Film is Dead
• Crop it Good