Tidbits for a Weekend’s Reading

Fri. 01.11.19 – Here are a few articles to start your weekend out right. Happy Friday! * Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why * Memo to conservatives: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez understands taxes better than you do * A Moral Panic…

Sunday Tidbits with a Photo of Melting Snow in the Sagebrush

Ocotillo and Jet Contrail : Film and Mobile

Fri. 11.04.16 – In 2015, I ventured into the One Camera : One Lens photo project with my Nikon FM3a film camera and a Nikon AIS 50mm f/1.8 manual lens. I tried to use a new film every month, alternating black & white film…

The Attack of the Tiny Planets: Seal Beach Low Tide Edition

On Monday, while waiting for my Mom to be finished at the dentist, I walked along the Seal Beach Pier and took the above left photo of the low tide line. Yesterday I ran the photo through the Tiny Planets app on my phone…

Flickr and the abuse of the Creative Commons

With the following Tweet today, Jeffrey Zeldman started a very good twitter conversation about Flickr, commericial/retail photo usage, and copyright/licensing/creative commons: As a photographer I now have to choose whether to prevent people from using my photos, or prevent Yahoo from selling them. —…