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If you're well beyond the "beginner" phase in photography, have a little free time to work on a project that could be fairly successful, and the interest in combining those two things, get ahold of me.
I've recently re-thought a lot of the UDSLR project I've had on a back burner for a few years and [...]

Later this week I expect a Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM lens to arrive at my house. It should come with a 1.4x teleconverter and a drop-in circular polarizing filter.
The 300/2.8 is perhaps one of the finest lenses Canon makes. Its average overall rating is a perfect 10 at FredMiranda, and many say the [...]

This is simply an experiment, but one I'd call relatively successful. I took three exposures of the local Outback near my house. The scene has a wide range of light and dark tones, and thus was suitable for an HDR technique. The three images (+/- 2 stops) are included along the top row.

I picked up [...]

Sometimes Aperture 2.0's hue selector yields some surprising results. Moving around within this bright sun, I can grab just about every color: blues, yellows, greens, reds, oranges, purples…

That makes sense, and should serve as a warning: don't try to select hues in super-bright or super-dark areas, or you'll get similarly surprising results.
You can also be [...]

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 uploaded [...]

Now that Aperture 2.0 is out, with "image adjustment plugin support," I'm curious what kind of plugins people might want to see made.
My personal list is rather short.

Great noise reduction (there are a few good ones out there).
A complete HDR plugin.
A panorama stitcher.
A plugin that can flip images horizontally and vertically.

What's kind of plugins do [...]

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 project. [...]

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, pretty 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, but [...]

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 you [...]