Too Many Hobbies

Sometimes I think I should retire. It’s not that I don’t like my job because I do! It’s fantastic, really! I get to turn dials on the production systems of a computer network that has no equal anywhere on Earth… and that’s pretty cool.

No, I need to retire because I have too many hobbies [...]

A Sucker for Punishment

I’ve finally updated my gallery to include photos from Ireland and Switzerland. Here is one that wouldn’t fit:

It’s a panoramic HDR image taken at night, which doesn’t sound so difficult. I certainly didn’t think it would be very difficult while I was taking the 33 shots that went in to it. [...]

Is Photoshop Wrong?

I think there is a bug in Photoshop CS2…

Photographing architecture is difficult unless you have a shift/tilt lens because a photographer usually has to point the camera upward at an angle to capture the entire building. Unfortunately, this causes the normally parallel vertical lines to tilt inward toward the center of the photo.

Photoshop [...]

Night Moves

No! Not those kind of night moves! I’m talking about things you can do with your camera at night.

There are two important elements of photography present at night that most people don’t expect: light and color. It is, after all, dark and “dark” is defined as the absence of light, right? Well unless you’re [...]

The Generation Gap

All across time, there have been epic battles. David vs Goliath, Intel vs Motorola, RAW vs JPEG. And of course, film vs digital. Everybody has opinions on this, so why should I be any different. I took pictures on film for about 20 years before I had my first taste of the art of photography. [...]