America’s strong suit.
As an American resident for some 55% of my life now, I’m permitted to make value judgments about what we do well and not so well. Note the ‘we’. I may still affect an English accent but 20 years of American citizenship and a disproportionate tax burden grudgingly paid over those […]
Or snooker to those of you in moister climes.
When I was a lad attending the School of Engineering at University College, London, it was a well worn saying that had it that a Third Class degree was the Gentleman’s Degree, suggesting, as it did, that the honored recipient had done just enough studying to pass, […]
Have we reached another technology plateau?
While camera makers have been adding bells and whistles to their digital offerings – mostly silly things like Live View and Face Recognition – it begins to look as if the current technological cycle has peaked.
While more megapixels sell cameras, these no longer translate into more definition or better color […]
A stunning image
Something special comes along now and then and this is an example:
Not only does this make you gasp for breath, it’s in the very finest tradition of Margaret Bourke-White, who just happened to have an office in the Chrysler Building.
Laforet does it in color. It’s better than hers. Hands down better.
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The Nikon D3 is pushing the limits of complexity
I have never been a fan of some of the needless menu complexity of Canon’s 5D, my mainstay camera. So now that the estimable DP Review has started poking about the design of the full frame Nikon D3 I was eager to take a look how […]
No, not the one by John Berger.
One of the books on art I enjoyed most was John Berger’s About Looking which went on to become ‘Ways of Seeing’ when the BBC filmed it. What was especially interesting about the piece is that it is cast in the author’s Marxist viewpoint of the world, where […]
A great web page plugin for iPhoto
Having just upgraded to iPhoto 7 (or iPhoto ‘08 as it is also known) it was time to upgrade to the latest version of Better HTML Export, a plugin that integrates seamlessly with iPhoto and permits creation of elegant web site pages in a jiffy.
It’s what I use most […]