I <3 Mendocino

I am not sure how this happened, but I never processed any of the images from last summer’s trip to Mendocino (my wife’s home county in California.) Looking through them, I can’t remember making well over half of these images, but several are worth working on. I need to clean my hard drive more often, I guess. This image was made near MacKerricher State Park a bit after sunset and the rest of the family had gone back to camp. I don’t know who drew the heart in the sand, but I remember being terribly uninspired at that moment, and the design was the most interesting thing around. I just wanted to stand there and soak it in rather than bother with being creative. The light dropped off [...]

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If this stuff doesn’t make you think, I’d rather you didn’t. Tea Party opening speaker suggests law that kept blacks from voting be reinstated Holy shit, our culture affects our cognition?! (Also known as “The New Snot-nosed Kid on the Block Syndrome”) Reporting Unlawful Sales of Medical Products on the Internet (WTF?) It’s capitalism or a habitable planet – you can’t have both (This brand of fatalism may not be helping the cause …) A few stats to go with your coffee: 51% of people identifying themselves as Republicans in a poll currently don’t think Obama was born in the US or think it’s a matter open to debate. 53% of those same “Republicans” currently believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama. 42% [...]

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So, I think I have settled on a way to post the photographs from the old site, using a few blog plugins and hosting the images at Picasa. Not exactly “portfolio” quality, but it gets the job done. Checkout the “Extras” menu to the right, where you’ll find two links: “Photo Galleries“, which is comprised of more formal images, and “Snapshots“, which would be voyeuristic to look at if you don’t know me.

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The Eye Has It

This one seems to be popular when checking the Google Analytics reports from my former gallery web site. It was made a few years ago near Mendocino, CA while we dined at my sister-in-law’s house up on the hill. The green eye, shallow depth of field, and the offsetting deep coral color of her sweater make this one of my favorite images. Someday soon, I’ll figure out a way to post some photographs in a sensible format again.

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OneLight Workshop DVD: Some Drunken Thoughts

The other day I picked up a copy of Zack Arias’ OneLight Workshop DVD at the advice of a friend. A few glasses of scotch and some time later, I ended up sending these thoughts to that same friend: Dude, I am at the 15:25 mark of DVD 1 from the OneLight workshop. I must say that this guy is not doing a convincing job of articulating how a camera and flash works. At 4:57, he drilled into us that “shutter speed controls ambient exposure” about 13 times in 60 seconds. This is a reckless oversimplification [as we'll see in a moment] but goddamn it sounds like the gospel the way Zack preaches it. Like Moses himself stumbled upon this bit of wisdom scrawled on a stone tablet [...]

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