Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Camera Recommendation

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

I recently got asked for a camera recommendation for someone who might want to get into photography. I view this question as a pretty simple one — it doesn’t matter which camera you use. Photography is the art/science of capturing light, and almost any camera will do a decent job of it. I remember owning [...]

France 2009 photos

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I finally got around to posting the photos from our trip to France on my Flickr photo stream. I didn’t bother editing the photos at all, otherwise I’d be posting them to the photo blog. Let me know which photos you like, and I’ll edit them for the photoblog. You can see them here. There [...]

TOP: Get and use a Leica

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Over at The Online Photographer blog there’s been a bit of a ruckus over their suggestion to spend a year using a Leica to develop photo skills. I think their suggestion is valid, and mostly a reasonable (if somewhat inconvenient) thing to do. You can find the initial and follow-up posts here: The Leica as [...]

Of photo club and practice

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Last week, I managed to swing by a Terrapin Photo Club Meeting (#60). I had a pleasant enough time, though I was struck by two things: Man, these people are young. There were surprisingly few photos of people I know taking pictures of people is difficult. You have to overcome the inherent sense of voyeurism, [...]