exploring nature’s infinite connections
Recently I converted my Epson 4800 from using Matte Black ink to Photo Black ink for the sole purpose of being able to try some of the new Baryta papers on the market. OK, not so new by now - they have been emerging the past couple of years. But I was sitting on...
I found it quite funny, that even 25 years later, that little booklet that drops in the ad for the original Macintosh looks just like the booklet I got with my MacPro when I switched last year. I suppose it goes to show even with leaps and bounds in advances in...
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...
Perhaps a rule bender, or a light bender - both can be done through the use of a specialty lens called a Lensbaby. . Certainly the Lensbaby is not a new type of lens, they are now on their 4th generation or so. The operating principle of this lens is that you can...
My procrastination in cleaning my camera's sensor finally gave me a kick in the pants with some soft focus iris images I did recently. Check out the thumbnail. . These are all the dust spots I needed to clean up in Lightroom. I thought slides were bad!. . . Dust...
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...
In a previous posting about a month ago, I wrote how I was considering a switch to Mac. I have been a PC user for pretty much my entire computing life, except for perhaps my original computer classes in high school where we worked on Apple IIe's. (Is that dating...
My computer is really starting to show its age and for awhile now I have been thinking about what its replacement should be. That also has me thinking about Macs and making a change. I have been working with PCs for 20 years+, so it is a bit daunting to think about...
What is it? Liquid nitrogen? Molten gold? Gas prices in 2425? Special medicine? How about liquid uranium? What could be so expensive? And worse yet, what company that sells you such a precious commodity would also make you dump a good portion of it right down the...