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Aperture 2.0 arrived today. The upgrade process went smoothly until Aperture began updating previews. I would rather it have given a progress bar and insisted it do that work modally rather than as a background task. The app was unusable during that time anyway. FlickrExport fortunately works with 2.0 out of the box, and I've […]

Now that Aperture 2.0 is out ((I still hope mine ships today so that I can play over the weekend. I ordered at 6:08am PST yesterday, after all, and have two-day shipping.)), with "image adjustment plugin support," I'm curious what kind of plugins people might want to see made. My personal list is rather short. […]

A few people have asked (here, here, and in email and IM) about submitting photos for or joining the Photo Battle Blog. I'd like to accommodate the requests, and if possible, I will - just not at the current site. In fact, given the relative success of the project, I'd like to propose a little […]

I'm going to wait for my upgrade version to arrive (I paid for two-day shipping, hoping to get it by Friday), but based on the Aperture pages and some "first impressions" posts by others, here are my first impressions.

I'll keep this short and sweet: I've started a "photo battle blog" here: http://pic.nslog.com/. Two pictures are posted daily by two people (one of them me). You can click the images to view them at their full size (800 x whatever) and then click a button below to vote for the one you prefer. Please, […]

I knew Orlando had an upside-down building for the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum, but the theme appears to be spreading.

This shot's actually from yesterday. I am in Orlando, FL for the 2008 PGA Merchandise Show. I've not mentioned it because the wife doesn't like all four of my blog's readers to know I'm gone. 🙂 Sadly, this is after adjustments, as the iPhone has no way to control aperture, ISO, or shutter speed. 🙂

It must be. I have a hard time believing Apple wouldn't have at least put out an update that would add a "2008" album to the built-in smart albums by now if it wasn't. Right? 😛

A lot of photographers commit to a sort of "365 Project" every new year wherein they take (and post) one photo every day of the year. It's designed to get photographers off their duffs and creating imagery every day, whether they feel like it or not. That sort of thing never quite appealed to me, […]

Chuq wrote a little about Aperture today and points out that it's been a year that Aperture has basically sat still, not moving. He links to an article from nearly a year ago that mentions things like auto HDR and panorama stitching, the use of Photoshop filters, and possibly licensing glass filters as effects in […]

Life's been pretty busy lately and I haven't had the chance to take many pictures lately. I plan to start up again soon as the leaves will soon be turning beautiful colors. In related news, the images on the Desktops page (click the link at the top) can now be sized for your iPhone, if […]

Episode 38 of Allen Rockwell's podcast covers a topic I've thought about off and on for a few months: photographers "devaluing" their own work by giving away photography to local newspapers, websites, friends, stock photo sites, etc. It's a bone of contention for professional photographers, and one I've given some serious thought to since becoming […]

Today we took a trip to Pymatuning State Park to visit the spillway (i.e. the place where the carp are so think you could almost walk on them) and the Deer Park nearby. Here are some photos from that journey. This is the first time in awhile I've gotten the chance to use the camera […]

I took about 2000 pictures (and Ron took another 1000 or so) at this year's Memorial just outside Columbus, OH. This year I focused primarily on taking pictures of the players. Last year I did a good bit of the course itself. The results can be seen in four posts at The Sand Trap: The […]

An unattributed quote I saw written on the back of a flyer I found today: "A zoo's humanity cannot be measured by the square footage to which a once-wild animal is confined, but how the animals affect those who visit and their attempts to save the natural habitats of other animals." Makes sense to me.