exploring nature’s infinite connections
I know, I know, I am a bad, bad blogger - I have not posted here in a couple of weeks - and I know that is an eternity in the blogosphere. A story on NPR today about blogs made me feel even more guilty! So my apologies. The past couple of weeks have hit me with a...
I have been working on cataloging some more images and came across a few shorebird pictures that I liked but had not posted them yet on my site. . It got me thinking about some of the challenges in photographing these little guys. In particular, I remember getting...
When I start working on particular print orders, I take the image ID numbers from the order and search by them in Lightroom to create a special collection for that particular order. . Well, every once in awhile I come across images not related to the order, but...
If you have viewed any of the comments to the posts here, you will see I made a small tweak so people's "gravatars" show up. "Gravatar" = global avatar. Yeah, OK, not a big deal - your choice if you want to use them or not. Some people like to place a face behind the...
2009 Color of the Year : Mimosa Pantone.® has recently announced their color of the year for 2009: Mimosa (Pantone 14-0848 TCX) I wrote about the 2008 color Blue Iris last December (link), and have sort of started a tradition in following it now. . And you are...
I have finally got back into my growing rock collection and actually revisited an older piece of Arizona Petrified Wood I have. This small slice has some of the most incredible micro landscapes within it as you can see above. These two images are of the...
Image quality is not determined by megapixels alone, and here is a great new resource that. demonstrates it. I followed a link to a wonderful website on camera sensors yesterday, and wanted to share it; DxOMark Sensor rankings It seems kind of ironic that my last...
I am pleased to be accepted as a Greener Photography member, a new site dedicated to spreading and collecting information on how we can make our art and the industries that support it friendlier to the environment. (Thanks to Jim Goldstein for introducing them to me)...
I caught this interesting story on NPR the other day about a professor who used NASA satellite data to calculate an estimate of the total number of trees on Earth. . That estimate is over 400 billion. (400,246,300,201 give or take - but probably a better number than...