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Spinney Multitasking
Love this photo: Carrol Spinney performing Oscar the Grouch while still partially dressed as Big Bird.
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Bend the Knee
We’ve had seven long years to figure who’ll finally sit on the Iron Throne, but I think we have enough clues to go on now. My Season 8 predictions in a fun piece I wrote over at Medium: Bend the Knee...
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Command and Control in Singapore
All of the reasons I give for never again wanting to live in a city just don’t apply in Singapore: There are virtually no traffic problems, virtually no crime, no hypodermic needles or feces on the...
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Singapore 2019
Just returned from epic journey in and around Singapore with family. So much to show and tell, managed to summarize some of it in daily roundups. Marina Bay at sunrise Just a few photos in this post,...
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The Sky Is a Lie
The first image below is real – I shot it on the Bay Trail, riding through Pt. Isabelle into the fog last weekend. The rest of these are total lies – I made them from the original in about five...
View ArticleSync’ing Photos Between Computer and Phone (etc.)
Here are a few questions that come up over and over on photo forums. To me, these all amount to the same question. Or, at least they all have the same answer: How can I post photos from my DSLR to...
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Bird in a Bush
The “doldrums” describes the area around the equator where wind sometimes doesn’t blow for weeks, and sailors get stuck, motionless, for long periods of time. Was just thinking about how being on...
View ArticleHonest Photography
Almost no one posts images straight out of the camera (SOOC) — there’s always work to do, improvements to be made. But how far can you go before crossing an ethical line? As our photo editing tools...
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In Defense of Flickr
People like to say flip things like “Flickr is dead” just like they’ve been saying “Apple is dead” for decades. It’s true that Flickr’s heyday has passed, but there are still hundreds of thousands...
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Devil’s Slide Bunker
After an amazing hike with Dave at Mount Montara in Pacifica last weekend, headed off to Maverick’s to watch some big-wave surfing (it was flat, despite 6-foot waves farther up the coast!), then...
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Richmond Shipyards / General Warehouse
One of the “buried treasures” of living in the SF Bay Area is discovering the strange remnants of WWII that still exist in remnant form. One of those I’ve been visiting lately is the Richmond...
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One Year of Pandemic Photos
It’s been a hell of a year, everyone. The pandemic has affected everyone differently, but no one has been untouched by it. My personal therapy through the Quarantimes has been to explore the wonders...
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Mastodon and the Fediverse
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we all benefit enormously from open source software. Most web servers and most browser engines are open source. The operating system that powers most internet servers...
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Watercolor by Tom Vaughan
Well that was fun! A watercolor painter named Tom Vaughan on Mastodon contacted me a bit ago and asked whether it would be OK if he made a painting from one of my photographs (from Pierce Point Rd in...
View ArticleMade by the Sea – Adventures in Portugal
I’m so excited! The editor of Fuji X Passion magazine invited me to write a travelogue with pictures, covering our time in Portugal. It took a week of evenings to put it together, and they did a ton...
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