Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Storage is power.
A few years ago when we upgraded our servers at work to greater capacity - some 200 gigabytes (gB) if I recall - I asked our head of IT what the word was for the next greater unit of storage.
Why, a Terabyte (tB), came the reply. That’s 1,000 gB.
Who would ever need […]

A bird that has it right.

Lumix LX-1, 1/250, f/4, ISO 80, ImageAlign
In a world run by small minded bureaucrats who make useless rules to ensure job tenure, you can only agree with this bird’s scofflaw attitude. And who cares if you loiter in a tight alleyway anyway?
I used ImageAlign to correct the tilted verticals - […]

Wise words.
Seen at the Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco.

Lumix LX-1. 1/200, f/3.2, ISO 80
I really couldn’t put it better myself.

Make yourself comfortable.
A little bit of nothing spottted a while back.

Lumix LX1, 1/800, f/3.6, ISO 100
I read that the UK is selling off these telephone boxes, another sign of questionable progress. Hopefully affluent American collectors will save these - after removing the ads for call girls (how appropriate) from the interior.

No, it’s not in Lens Work
All those free magazine subscriptions I am enjoying, courtesy of too many frequent flier miles on Delta, are beginning to be a mixed blessing.
First, two of the original twelve never arrived, yet Delta’s computer wrote me a polite note explaining they were no longer offering those, but please choose three […]

No, not pants, dear!
Just in case you though this piece was about our philandering ex-President (that’s ’serial pant dropping’, if you don’t mind), well, I’m sorry to have to disappoint you.
Rather, this little note is about my sadly all too common habit of dropping my cameras.
The first, and still most painful drop, was of my […]