Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
From the monthly archives:
I think you can be too well informed on current events. Reading or watching the non-stop and mostly bad news being printed, posted or broadcasted is a guaranteed to put you into a funk.
This was true before the global economical crises and it’s truer now. People losing jobs, homes, livelihood, education opportunities, health and lives. [...]
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Last year while deciding whether to purchase a Nikon D700 full frame (FX) SLR-D camera one of the biggest negatives weighted was I didn’t have lens to do a FX camera justice and I couldn’t afford purchasing professional lens at the same time as the camera.
I finally decided to purchased the D700 along with a [...]
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Broken rock formations at Cooleemee Falls River Park (Bull Hole) which are sometimes totally submerged. I suspect the water flow on this particular section of the South Yadkin River may in some part be controlled. The amount of rainfall and water runoff doesn’t seem to always match the expected level of the river and falls.
I’ve [...]
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I’ll sometimes come across another photographer whose technique strikes my fancy to the point where I want to experiment in that same direction. In this case it was Grant Legassick using a technique of combining a panorama and sub-set photo to give a unique viewer experience–kind of a “here you are” moment.
This panoramic is from [...]
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Yesterday I restructured our home network to included separate 802.11n and 802.11b/g wireless segments. I had two main reasons for doing this:
Over the last several months there has been a wireless boom in our neighborhood. Where I once could pick-up three wireless networks I now, on a good night, can locate six to eight. These [...]
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The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. – William James (American novelist, 1899-1961)
I took a few days off from posting. I find I’ll sometimes get lost in the grind of blogging and begin to feel I must post each and every day–it becomes [...]
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Capital building clock tower, Colonial Williamsburg, VA
“When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike†– German Proverb
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We have digital cable and Internet services with Time Warner Cable (TWC) out of Charlotte, NC. For the last several days we’ve experienced an interesting problem with the services deteriorating only at night with a high degree of video artifacts and audio sync issues. For a couple of nights it’s gradually gotten worst until [...]
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There’s no specific order for the photos I post. One day I’ll post photos taken that same day and the next may be from six months ago. It’s whatever strikes my eye at the time–random!
The photo above was taken on the main street of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, in late January of this year. As [...]
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For photographers, for artist, for anyone who struggles with their own creative role in this life take a few minutes to watch Zack Arias’ Transform :: A short file for ScottKelby.com — it will be well worth your time!
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Sloan Park Gazebo
After due consideration I’ve signed up for the SoFoBoMo ‘09 photo book project.
SoFoBoMo (Solo Photo Book Month) is where photographers “volunteer” to create a real physical photo book, from start to finish, in a months (31 days) time, or less. This book doesn’t have to be printed it can be in a digital [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
