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Archive for Musings – Page 9

Human 2.0

July 20, 20153 CommentsMusings

I haven't seen any mention via online rumour sites, but I think it would be rather ignorant to assume that someone somewhere isn't hard at work on the Human 2.0 project. What new features can we look forward to? What bugs will finally be fixed? And is there anything that can be done to actually make me a better photographer?

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Copy Proof

June 22, 201512 CommentsMusings

In this article, I tackle the trendy subject of copyright infringement, and reveal my secret method for discouraging would-be image thieves.

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Yin Every Yang (Part 2)

April 19, 20155 CommentsMusingsPhoto Gear

Traveling to Iceland in the dead of winter? No problem. Traveling to Iceland carrying a backpack and a zoom lens? Now that's culture shock.

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Yin Every Yang (Part 1)

April 1, 201521 CommentsMusingsPhoto Techniques

In this world, there are things that motivate and things that demotivate. Curiously, what motivates one person might be exactly the same thing that demotivates someone else. Case in point: exotic vacations to scenic locales. For many people, such trips stimulate an outpouring of photographic activity. But for me, the only thing they stimulate is a bout with photographic apathy. Which is why, on a recent late-winter trip to Iceland, I decided to counter my expected languor by doing the opposite of what I would usually do. I would yin every yang.

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Appropriating Cortini

March 1, 20158 CommentsMusings

Does a song need an evolving melody in order to be called a song? Or can something else evolve in its place? Composer and sound designer, Alessandro Cortini claims the latter. And it's a claim I've just appropriated to help describe my latest photographic tendencies.

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Whenevergram

January 29, 201511 CommentsMusingsvBook

This article is for anyone whose obsessive need to update their social media outlets has forced them to post ill-considered crap. It introduces a conceptual new product called “Whenevergram,” which will force people to post carefully-considered crap instead.

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A Measly Million

December 15, 20146 CommentsMusings

The Fibonacci sequence might get all the glory, but it won't help anyone predict which photo will be the first to surpass the $7 million mark at auction. For that, you'll need the “Egor sequence.”

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Thoughts From The Void

November 3, 20142 CommentsMusings

For the first time in a decade, I took a break from photography without existential angst being its impetus — but that's not to say it didn't nearly prevent my return.

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Pi

September 24, 20148 CommentsMusings

By employing the world's most circuitous path, this article predicts the impending return of a vibrant and burgeoning film camera market. Crazy? Or crazy like a fox?

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Psycho Semantics

August 1, 201410 CommentsMusings

You'd think, after a decade-and-a-half of widespread moaning, bragging, posturing, marketing and pontificating, that every conceivable angle of the film vs digital debate would have been covered ad nauseam by ten thousand bloggers and a hundred thousand forum participants. So how is it I managed to uncover a heretofore un-debated cranny?

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Cones of Silence

June 12, 20145 CommentsMusingsULTRA news

Everyone redesigns their website now and then. But only ULTRAsomething would use such a mundane task as justification for an observational post on the state of humanity.

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National Biplane Lady Day

May 1, 20145 CommentsMusings

Which of these two is more ridiculous: "Film Photography Day" or "National Biplane Lady Day?" In this article I present the arguments. You make the decision.

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