May - 8th

Municipal Ordinance 904

Posted at 9:03 pm | Filed Under journal

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Apr - 30th

Wheelbarrow

Posted at 6:39 pm | Filed Under art, journal

I liked the texture and the color on this wheelbarrow, discarded along a deserted street. Sometimes art isn’t where you’re looking for it.

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Apr - 28th

Stages of a photographer

Posted at 5:01 pm | Filed Under art, journal

[via Clusterflock ]

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Apr - 22nd

Hallmark

Posted at 5:56 pm | Filed Under journal

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Apr - 21st

Vee Two

Posted at 10:39 am | Filed Under journal

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Apr - 20th

Vee

Posted at 3:43 pm | Filed Under journal

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Apr - 13th

Keychain Light

Posted at 9:02 pm | Filed Under digital

I’m playing with a Blackberry Tour on Sprint’s network. The network is fast, the camera an improvement over my Curve 8900, and it has image stabilization! This was taken from 6 inches away in a moving car, after several cups of coffee!

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Apr - 11th

EIA-TIA Cabling Specifications

Posted at 2:00 am | Filed Under blog

Crossover Cable RJ-45 PIN RJ-45 PIN 1 Rx+ 3 Tx+ 2 Rc- 6 Tx- 3 Tx+ 1 Rc+ 6 Tx- 2 Rc- Straight Through Cable RJ-45 PIN RJ-45 PIN 1 Tx+ 1 Rc+ 2 Tx- 2 Rc- 3 Rc+ 3 Tx+ 6 Rc- 6 Tx- Use a straight thru cable assembly,568B on both ends when […]

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Apr - 10th

Cheap Coffee of the Week, On the Road — McDonalds Value Menu

Posted at 6:19 am | Filed Under blog

McDonalds has put their small (12 oz.) coffee on their dollar menu. Looking for a quick decent cuppa for your morning commute? Look no further. See my earlier post for more on McDonalds efforts to break into the coffee biz.

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Apr - 4th

Standpipes

Posted at 6:00 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

Playing around with my LOMO LC-A+, Fuji SuperHQ 100 film.

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Apr - 3rd

Four Chairs

Posted at 8:01 am | Filed Under art, film

Penmax toy camera, generic 200 ISO film. The Penmax is rapidly becoming one of my favorite toy cameras; it’s very similar to the “TIME Magazine” 35mm cameras. Shutter speed is approximately 1/100th second, a 2-blade diaphragm adjusts to f/8, f/11 and f/16 – and makes truly weird bokeh.

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Apr - 2nd

Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide

Posted at 5:32 pm | Filed Under art, digital

Have you downloaded Hipstamatic from the iTunes store yet? It turns your iPhone into a retro camera with a number of effects. There are lens effects, film effects and flash effects that can be layered on top of each other. A HUGE number of effects. Effects with bewildering names, like Kaimal, Helga (we can figure […]

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Apr - 1st

Ciao, digital. Hello, unpredictable art.

Posted at 6:00 pm | Filed Under art, film

From SFGate.com comes this article about the 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show at Rayko Photo in Francisco. Plastic cameras are cheap, prone to light leaks and unpredictable. Which is why a lot of photographers are drawn to them in the digital age of pixel counts, precision focus and Photoshop. “You don’t know how the […]

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Apr - 1st

Cheap Coffee of the Week — MR. COFFEE DARK ROAST

Posted at 5:00 am | Filed Under blog

I didn’t know Mr. Coffee sold coffee! This was on closeout at Walgreens, and brewed be a surprisingly nice cuppa. Medium to dark body, not overly bitter, and a nice punch to it – I made one cup to get me awake at oh-dark-hundred and made another cup in my travel mug for the road. […]

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Mar - 31st

Filament

Posted at 6:10 pm | Filed Under art, digital

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Mar - 30th

ZANINE

Posted at 6:15 pm | Filed Under art, film

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Mar - 29th

Fire-Water (Happy Accident)

Posted at 6:39 pm | Filed Under art, film

Here’s a happy accident -� I loaded a roll of 36 exposure film. I then (a) thought I was done after exposure 24, and (b) opened the camera back while forgetting to rewind the film first, exposing the film.

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Mar - 28th

Guanajuato, tilt-shifted

Posted at 12:51 pm | Filed Under digital

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Mar - 27th

Barbed Wire, Dogpatch

Posted at 3:00 pm | Filed Under journal

photo credit: DaveFayram

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Mar - 25th

Thrift Store Finds

Posted at 9:51 pm | Filed Under film

I picked up an Olympus Mju (Stylus) today, for the unheard-of price of $3.99. Several years ago, most people needing a compact camera bought point-and-shoot cameras with long, soft, slow zoom lenses.

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