Archive for April, 2006

It’s called 10 Numbers, and it’s here, it’s now, and it’s all new. Come join in on the new DP Blogs challenge. The details can be found above under Project of the Month. Come on, everybody’s doing it…

I’ve been thinking a lot about something John at Syncspeed wrote about a couple of weeks ago. He wrote about needing to be more intentional about his photography. Lately, I’ve been shooting things as the spirit moves me, you know, capturing moments. Sometimes, I’ll intentionally go on a photo excursion like to [...]

So the hot news this morning is that Apple asked most of the Aperture team to leave.
Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others were transferred to different projects inside Apple, [...]

I’m playing with my flashlights again. I always liked the way the light refracted through glass bottles, bending it this way and that, softening it and refracting it into interesting shapes.

Everyone knows you should make backups, but no ones wants to do it. I’ve written previously about my archiving method, and still do the same today. However, I’ve recently wanted to start doing local backups so I won’t someday have to deal with downloading from flickr. Not that I think flickr is [...]

One of our friends from the 30 Day Photo Challenge, Terry, just sent me an exciting email.
Thanks to you I got a newspaper column [The Melbourne Age/Green Guide] out of using Flickr. There is a link to your site in the on-line version here > http://www.dpexpert.com.au/
A hearty congratulations to you Terry! Your photographs are great [...]

We’re painting the kitchen wall a terracotta color with the cabinets a warm putty. It’s going to be pretty. I was thinking about what pictures to put on the walls, and I decided upon out of focus images of tiles. I went to a bunch tile stores in an industrial park [...]

Have you ever had one of those weeks? This one is kicking my butt. If only Chloe could take a 4 hour nap today, I might be able to put things back together again. We’re re-painting the kitchen. No big deal, right? Um, sure. We stripped all of [...]