I have to be honest. Before they contacted Angela about maybe using one of her photos on their online photo city guides, I had never heard of Schmaps. However, soon after she heard from them, I got an email as well letting me know they were considering one of my photos. Today, I got an…
So much for being the dedicated photographer. Last night, I had plans to meet up with a friend, and take in some of the bands at the Dublin Irish Festival. I brought the camera, but when we ran into some other friends and started chatting, listening to some great music, etc. I made the decision…
I downloaded Flock, the “Social Browser”, last night and have been playing with it a bit to see how it works. In terms of being a “social” browser, it definitely is that, with the blogging, photo uploading, RSS feeds and other social network plug-ins incorporated directly in to the browser. On the other hand, I haven’t…
We had plans to take a trip up to Marion today, for lunch. Since we didn’t have any other plans, I suggested we take along the cameras and do a little photo exploring of Marion and maybe some other things on the trip. Angela suggested we try to fin the Harding Memorial, since President Harding…
I ordered a number of prints of some of my photos today. Now that I have an office, I got tired of looking at the bare white walls and decided it was time to put some of my photos on display. Let’s hope I have better luck getting these prints than we did last week….
One of the tricks of the trade that I’ve seen used most often, and have only recently started experimenting with myself, is making slight adjustments to the shutter speed of a photo. This is especially common when taking a photo of running water of some sort, whether it be a stream, white-water, or some sort of…