While my camera is still in the shop, I thought I’d take a second to tell you about some of my other interests.  In no particular order.

Boston sports - I primarily follow the Red Sox and Patriots, but also like to pay attention to the Celtics.  Out of all the online Boston sports resources I’ve [...]

Chloe is fast becoming the most photographed baby in the universe. Seriously, we took well over 1,000 pictures of Chloe this month. Can there be too many pictures?? Hmmm, there inlies the problem. It’s the joy and the curse of digital. We’re certainly not going to print anything near [...]

Digital Camera Magazine, a great UK photo magazine has just started posting their Photoshop video lessons on their website. I think they’re doing away with the CD inserts from the magazine and making them available for download to everyone on the internet. These are very easy to understand lessons about Curves, Sharpening, printing, [...]

As a kid I remember hearing stories of events that occoured at or near the turn of the century (1900’s). They’d always refer to the events as “the war of ‘06″ or the “storm of ‘08″ and it always seemed so far away.
Well, Southern California was hit with a storm (the Arctic Express they call [...]

I took a great picture of Chloe on New Year’s Day. Our whole family was totally ker-flop, and we all spent most of the day on a big pile of pillows in the middle of the empty living room floor. I took this shot and loved it, but it was too dark [...]

We inturrupt our regularly scheduled show to introduce you to a great article on camera focus (or lack there-of).
Many people wonder why their camera isn’t delivering the tack-sharp focusing they’re expecting to see. This extensive article by Leon Goodman (he uses a Nikon D70 and hails from Idaho) explains why that might be and has [...]

Well, I checked the Nikon service page tonight and found my D70 needing yet another B2 repair.  From their site, a B2 repair is:
Moderate Repair : Major Parts Replaced
That makes three B2 repairs on this camera. While I’m very happy that Nikon is taking care of me once again, I wonder how long before [...]

My brilliant friend, Vanessa has written a great article for the environmental news website, Grist. She details her experiences living “off the grid” in a wooded cabin in rural Washington and how her life differs now living in Los Angeles. How does someone go from living with solar panels and an outhouse [...]