On portraiture. For an amateur, and even for some professionals, what you photograph is who you are. There is a booming community of self-portraitists out there in the world, some very talented, filling the pages of flickr’s explore with their faces, poses, composite images etc. I’ve never gotten into this kind of photography, chiefly because...
A trip through the trippiest place I know When I was a kid, my parents had a friend, Bob, who was one of those characters that seems straight out of a Jean Shepard story. In the golden hindsight of memory’s sieve, it’s hard to to draw the line between reality, the rosy blur of childhood...
Share and share alike I get a lot of inspiration from stuff I find online: videos, photos, reviews, blog posts, etc. I want to start to do a better job sharing some of these things. I’ll try to avoid sharing stuff that makes its way through the standard channels of other photography aggregators (amongst which...
Are you a consumer or a connoisseur? Do you all follow @LightStalking or visit www.lightstalking.com? I highly recommend it if you don’t and you’re into photography (and if you’re reading this site, chances are you are a photography buff). Yesterday I read this very interesting post which described a psychological study on the emotional responses...
Not winning any design awards. I posted yesterday some images of the homemade nodal tripod head that I designed with my friend Mike and which Mike was kind enough to fabricate for me. Jason asked if I would be so kind as to share the specifications and build details. So here they are. I’ve included...
