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I subscribe to a CreativePro mailing list because they usually have some pretty good tutorial articles posted on occasion. Recently they posted one about using Photoshop to make your photos take on that old, faded, yellowish look. Anyone that has a non-archival photo...
Pietersite is one of the gem rocks I have become fascinated with lately, and have been photographing some samples as part of my 'Inspired by Stone' project. It is named after its discoverer, Sid Pieters, a farmer who discovered it in Namibia, Africa in 1962. Since...
If you happen to be at your local REI store, or any other place that carries the individual Sierra Club notecards, take a look for these two images. I was fortunate to have these two selected to be in the Winter 2008 lineup, and finally got my complimentary...
I finally got a chance to start one of my photo projects I have been wanting to do for a long time, and inspired recently by a couple of photo books I have been going through - most notably Bill Atkinson's "Within the Stone." Not only does it have some of the most...
Well, OK, this is kind of just a start off post since my Mac is ordered but I don't have it yet. Hopefully you folks won't get too tired of my babbling about this. The anticipation is building though for this Mac newbie. The new MacPro's have an option for a fairly...
The ol' saying of making sure your ducks are in a row couldn't ring truer when it comes to backing up your computer. As I wrote about in my previous post, my PC decided it wasn't going to boot on me a few weeks back. After messing around and not getting anywhere, I...
I found this video from Art Wolfe quite entertaining because I think many wildlife photographers can relate to the wonderful experience it is to be so accepted into an animal's space. (Although this probably shows acceptance more than he expected! 🙂 ) Thanks to Jim...
Hey folks, sorry for the lack of posts lately, but the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster of ups and downs. . A lot of things have happened since my last post across the entire emotional spectrum. My wife and I have been caring...
Well, it happened to me again, PC crash - my desktop decided it didn't want to boot Windows (XP Pro SP2) yesterday, so I am posting via laptop while some surgery is going on. As familiar as I have become with the Blue Screen of Death - it threw a new one at me . a...