Online Photo Editing

In old news Aviary, recently went public, and is a subscription based online photo editing service.

Aviary joins the other companies that offer this service, including picnik, & photoshop express.

Picnik and Aviary differ somewhat in their services offered. Aviary …

Online Photo Editing

In old news Aviary, recently went public, and is a subscription based online photo editing service.

Aviary joins the other companies that offer this service, including picnik, & photoshop express.

Picnik and Aviary differ somewhat in their services offered. Aviary …

Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics

Should we be alarmed?

[From Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics]

Same old same old?

Annie Leibovitz: Too many stars in her eyes

It's about time some one told it like it was

'A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it?' asked Sontag in the introduction to Leibovitz's Women, lightly implying that the photographer might have some opinions of her own. If she does, they are not discernible in the …

City Traces [a blog re-visited]

trawling my news feeds today, and I re-discovered this gem

[From City Traces ]

Interesting Art

on several levels

Also fwiw, my contempt for bean counters and bureaucrats, has reached a new low.

Upcoming Photography Exhibition*

NGV, Ian potter is having a photographic exhibition of Rennie Eliis' photography later this month. If you are into street photography, this is the show for you.

And a word to all those big camera zealots out there, his main camera? An Olympus XA.

Rennie Ellis saw …

Oh nose I'm a POMO!

New series commenced.

Looks like I've become a post-modernist after all?

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

When Henson became a blood sport

The Opinionator - Kara Kidman

Henson's horror week has pulled the sporting beanie from our eyes -- art is truly a waste of time.

[From what more can I say; ]

sheesh

San Francisco Visual Artist - Photography by John Chiara

Thanks to TK's post to the silver mine forum on flickr, I found this guy who is doing some crazy stuff with a home made camera mounted on a trailer he pulls around behind his car.

[From John Chiara]

I like the idea of addressing the way modern westerners treat …

Behind the Scenes

Recently re-discovered, this, good commercial photographer's blog

[ This particular entry is about an ad campaign for RAW and Kung Fu, make sure you watch the video!]Lots of special effects and pre and post production, notice how they actually photograph fire and …

Fallibility, Atonement, Redemption, Trust, And Other Arcane Technical Concepts.

Found this page/article this morning, courtesy of an e-mail list/forum I participate in that is discussing computers and education.*

[From Neal Stephenson's publishers site, of the book, "In the Beginning was the Command Line."]

About twenty years ago Jobs and …

Yet Another Photo site

Through the vagaries of hyper-linking I found this site called Photo-shelter.

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

This site has a more commercial bent to it than flickr and other sites I've compared., it aims to sell 'stock' photographs. I've created an account and have …

Commenting?

Since the recent upgrade of Movable Type, I've NOT been receiving e-mail notifications of comments. So I'm manually checking to see if folks have commented. If you've left a comment over the last few weeks and it has not appeared, please, e-mail me or leave …

Twitter Search Tool

Just discovered that twitter has it's own search tool, and it could, perhpas be used to get a feel for what is going on around you?

Couldn't help myself could I

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Album or Book?

When does a photo album become a book?

[From Inside on Flickr - Photo Sharing!]

This image from flickr by a commercial photographer working in the states has me thinking about what differentiates a photo album from a book? More specifically, a 'Photo Album' from a …

Photo Processing, A Cooking Analogy

Anolgies are good

[From Photo Processing, A Cooking Analogy

CS 4

As I'm doing less and less in photoshop these days, I guess I missed the announcement of CS4

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Just another thing to learn, well my PD file will get a shot in the arm.

Last Saturday in September*

For those of you who know me, this is the one weekend of the year where, my music collection and DVD collection, [meagre as it is] all gets a hammering.

Try it sometime folks, see if you can go 3 or 4 days without TV Radio or newspapers, it's hard. But with …

Flickr & Usability

Flickr recently changed the way the front page works. Historically I would begin using the site from my own bookmarked page, then, using tabs, work my way around comments I'd made followed by comments left by others, then check the activity in the groups, I'm …