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Archive for March, 2007 - click any heading for the full Article

31 Mar 2007

My show at Castoro Cellars

Ready to be hung
Tomorrow morning will find me helping the nice lady at Castoro Cellars hang my pictures for the month long show of my photography they are hosting during April, 2007.
You can be the first to see this show by clicking here. Click on any thumbnail for a larger picture and for equipment […]

31 Mar 2007

Ghetto Mac?

To buy or not to buy?
Mention of Apple in these pages is frequent, simply because my love of picture taking moved me to that computer brand a few years ago.
So no sooner than I wrote about eyeing a ‘free’ MacPro in December, 2006 once AAPL hits $100 a share, than the stock takes an extended […]

30 Mar 2007

Listmania

No, we are not talking about the great Hungarian composer/pianist
Humans love to make lists. Whether they are Democrats (win election, raise taxes, claim credit for economy), Republicans (win election, lower taxes, claim credit for economy), shoppers (butter, eggs, blame politicians for prices) or photographers (blame anything and anyone when the picture does not come […]

29 Mar 2007

Keeping it clean and making the loupe functional

A couple of great Aperture tips
O’Reilly Digital Media publishes an excellent Aperture Blog which has several guest authors. From time to time they have sound files of interviews with Joe Schorr, the Big Cheese at Apple’s Aperture division.
In the most recent installment, Schorr explains (hint to O’Reilly - Add Pictures!) how to clean up […]

28 Mar 2007

Window view, more Mono

You can’t beat walking the dog
Why? Because this is the sort of thing you would never see from a car. Plus I get to push the Monochrome Color idea on you.

Window, Bay Area, San Francisco. Panasonic LX-1, ISO 80

27 Mar 2007

One color, not Club Mono

A sparse color palette works well

Spotted a local aircraft show. 5D, 200mm, ISO 250
This lady had restored the beautiful antique aircraft behind her, and even color coordinated the pup’s leash and harness to match! She enjoyed the snap as much as I do.