Pro Review: Datacolor SpyderCube (Professional Photographer Magazine Web Exclusives) Spyder Cube image copyright Stan SholikWednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
A Photographic Legend Passes
My favorite portrait of Pablo Picasso by Irving Penn."Irving Penn, a grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic combined with a startling sensuality defined a visual style that he applied to designer dresses or fleshy nudes, famous artists or tribal chiefs, cigarette butts or cosmetics jars, many of them now-famous photographs owned by leading art museums, has died. He was 92." For more from the Los Angeles Times article click here.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
CCD Inventors Win The Nobel PrizeI In Physics!
Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith, who co-developed the first charge-coupled device (CCD) for image capture, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. They share the honour with physicist Charles Kuen Kao, who won the prize “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication”. For more info click here.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Nigel Parry Followup
If you get a chance to snag a copy of "Sharp" do so. Some of Nigel Parry's most interesting images are reproduced in this beautiful book. Well worth the original price but I found a "like new" on Amazon that I can't tell from "new" and at an incredibly low price and when I say low, the shipping cost more than the book.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Epson Kicks It Up A Couple of Notches!
The long awaited Epson Stylus Pro 3880 has finally arrived and with some noticeable improvements over it's older brother the 3800. Check it out by clicking here.
Canon Announces The 7D
Yep, the rumors were true. The Canon 7D is an 18-megapixel semi-pro DSLR that shoots 1080p video in 24 or 30 frames per second for $1899 or less and it doesn't stop there. Canon made several "upgrades" to it's 5D predecessor based on customer surveys, unfortunately they made one downgrade, it's not a full sized chip! What! Read more at Gizmodo by clicking here.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Eight Exceptional People Remembered - A Repost
It's hard to believe that 911 was eight years ago. I want to share with you, once again, the story of eight people who perished that Tuesday; eight exceptional people, Joe Ferguson, (photo), Ann Judge (photo), James Debeuneure, Rodney Dickens, Sarah Clark, Asia Cottom, Hilda Taylor and Bernard Brown. This is their 911 story."Two staff members of the National Geographic Society, along with three Washington, D.C., teachers and three students they were traveling with, were among the victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on Tuesday, officials of the Society announced on Wednesday.
Ann Judge, director of the Society's travel office, and Joe Ferguson, director of the Geography Education Outreach Program, were accompanying the three teacher-student pairs on an educational trip to California.
They were all killed along with the other passengers of American Airlines Flight 77 after it was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon at about 9:45 Tuesday morning.
Teacher James Debeuneure and student Rodney Dickens were representing Ketcham Elementary School; teacher Sarah Clark and student Asia Cottom were from Backus Middle School; and teacher Hilda Taylor and student Bernard Brown were from Leckie Elementary School. All the students were 11-year-old sixth graders.
They had been selected to participate in a program at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a Society-funded marine research project known as Sustainable Seas Expeditions."
"Through our educational outreach program, Ann and Joe were going to make geography and the environment come alive for these committed, talented teachers and their star students by putting them into the field with scientists and researchers," said John Fahey Jr., the Society's president and CEO.
"The D.C. School District has lost six extraordinary people, and we at the Society have lost two treasured colleagues," he added.
"Two staff members of the National Geographic Society, along with three Washington, D.C., teachers and three students they were traveling with, were among the victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on Tuesday, officials of the Society announced on Wednesday.
Ann Judge, director of the Society's travel office, and Joe Ferguson, director of the Geography Education Outreach Program, were accompanying the three teacher-student pairs on an educational trip to California.
They were all killed along with the other passengers of American Airlines Flight 77 after it was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon at about 9:45 Tuesday morning.
Teacher James Debeuneure and student Rodney Dickens were representing Ketcham Elementary School; teacher Sarah Clark and student Asia Cottom were from Backus Middle School; and teacher Hilda Taylor and student Bernard Brown were from Leckie Elementary School. All the students were 11-year-old sixth graders.
They had been selected to participate in a program at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a Society-funded marine research project known as Sustainable Seas Expeditions."
"Through our educational outreach program, Ann and Joe were going to make geography and the environment come alive for these committed, talented teachers and their star students by putting them into the field with scientists and researchers," said John Fahey Jr., the Society's president and CEO.
"The D.C. School District has lost six extraordinary people, and we at the Society have lost two treasured colleagues," he added.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Panasonic Kicks It Up A Notch!
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 sounds too good to be true! 12 Mega Pixels with a Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT 27-486mm Zoom! That's not a typo 27-486, wow! You can zoom in and out while shooting AVCHD HD movies and it has Macro capabilities as well. All for $399.95! My buddy Steve Burger told me that a student in his last Grand Canyon workshop had one of these and the files were "awesome". For more info click here.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Check Out Nigel Parry!
Saw some of his work online and ordered one of his books "Sharp". Will follow up after it arrives, in the meantime check him out by clicking here.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Check Out Oleg Dou!
Talk about a guy who is out there! I really like his work but it seems that people either love it or hate it. Click here to check out the images.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Happy Birthday America!
When in the course of human events... thus begins one of our most cherished documents. I remember as a small child enjoying the 4th of July holiday with all of my cousins and other family members at my Uncle's home in rural Missouri. Towards the end of the day, before the fireworks, (yes fireworks were legal back then), my Uncle, seated at a picnic table in his enormous back yard, began reading the Declaration of Independence aloud with everyone gathered around. Everyone was quiet and respectful and at the end he smiled and said "Happy Birthday America"! Yesterday before going to my family's home for dinner and fireworks and celebration I took the time to read again this amazing document, I highly recommend it. Oh, and my favorite part, the last fourteen words. To read the Declaration of Independence click here.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Give Us Those Nice Bright Colors...
Give us the greens of summers... makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah... I got a Nikon camera... I love to take a photograph... so Mama don't take my Kodachrome away! Well, Mama didn't but today Kodak announced the official "retirement" of Kodachrome film. While I do love digital... Kodachrome and Tri-X were and are to this day my favorite films. I first began shooting Kodachrome as a student in the photography program at Phoenix College in the fall of 1971, seems like yesterday. Yes, I'm aware that it was a black and white film with color added in processing, I don't care;It's amazing color palette and longevity make it, at least in my mind, the greatest "color" film of all time. Farewell old friend, we will miss you.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Honoring Fallen Warriors
"Today I fly the flag for those I knew well and those I did not know who fought and died so long ago and so far away." Memorial day is a tough day. For me it brings to mind memories of young men I served with who gave their life in service to their country. Time has done little to fade those memories and on this Memorial Day, like every other, I want to honor the warrior without honoring war and these quotes seems appropriate..."As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. " John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I hate war as only a soldier who lived it can, only as one who has seen it's brutality, it's futility, it's stupidity." Dwight David Eisenhower
Friday, February 13, 2009
Check Out George Fulton!
Copyright George FultonBeautifully crafted images by a photographer with a unique sense of humor.
DigitalRev Tests The Canon 5D Mark II - Check It Out!
A 21 meg pixel still camera that shoots HD video with decent sound? Sign me up! Check out the short film "Lumiere" but be sure to click on "watch in HD" so you can see what the camera is capable of even with YouTube compression.
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