I haven’t had to shop for a P&S camera for years…back when we bought our Canon Elph. It’s still going strong so I think it’s going to be a while for us to need to shop for one again. But if you happen to be in the market for one, checkout the NY Times article [...]

Here’s a little on-line shopping tip I’ve learned to love. Whenever I purchase something online, I ALWAYS search for coupons before I make the purchase. I just do a simple Google search, like “fragrancenet.com coupon” or “toysrus.com coupon” and almost always find something. Just today I found a coupon for 20% off for one site, [...]

You may have noticed, but posts have been a little sparse.  I could wine and complain about how busy I have been, but so is everyone.  I guess you can say I was just a little burned out for the past month.  Well, I’m committed to getting back into the swing of things and will [...]

John sez that the December challenge will be Christmas photos.

Cool! Even though it was almost 80-degrees here today,

<> everything you see tells you it’s almost Christmas. The stores, not wanting to miss out, have had Holiday decorations up since halloween. So get your cameras out, read the “rules” over at John’s place, and join us [...]

While working on my post for StK about Extreme Background Removal, my eMachines desktop computer decided to go poof. That ozone smell was horrifying. This event required me to turn my Mac Mini back into a desktop computer (it’s been a faithful little file server for our house for months) so that I [...]

The monthly project for December is VERY creative. Drum roll, please…It’s Christmas (or Chanukah, or Quanza, etc…)! That’s it. OK, so not only isn’t it creative, but it should be extremely easy. So get out there and get your flickr streams flowing with Holiday cheer. Get!

Because I’m in the mood…  But let me tell you, it’s not so easy to find inspiring Christmas tree photos.

This past week, we here in Southern California have seen the famous SantaAna winds return (or for you PC types, the Santana winds). being “desert-winds” (like the Sirocco or the Mistrals) the winds whip up the dust and sand along thier path and add a lot of particles to the atmosphere.
This presents some good photo [...]