May 2009
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European Update
For our honeymoon we embarked upon a 14-day mediterranean cruise visiting Barcelona, Cannes, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Venice, Croatia and Naples. Amazing experience sightseeing, photographing and appreciation the wonderful culture and history each region has offered.
Wi-Fi onboard Royal Caribbean is expensive, hence the lack of updates but sorting through the array of photographs my wife and I have...
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Does Twitter Hate Advertising? →
We’ve all already established how well-designed and subtle online ads can be, but it’s not an avenue Twitter has in mind to better define what they’re still striving to interpret when they speak publicly about how the service might become a profitable business
The idea of taking money to run traditional banner ads on Twitter.com has always been low on our list of interesting...
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“Strive not to understand photography, nor to understand how to operate the...”
– Ragman on Creative Connection in Photography
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Minor Changes
A while back I had promised myself in not making any radical aesthetic changes to this site. The purpose was to give myself the opportunity to allow readers to establishing a mental image of what this online space looks like even if they skim through it via any RSS feeder.
Judging by the recent changes to the site, it’s suffice to say that my promise didn’t last too long as I felt...
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“If you’re trying to sell your photography, consider running your operation the...”
– Scott Bourne on What Photographers Can Learn From Apple
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Blog For Myself
When I first began blogging, I had no plan or purpose for what eventually would become a habitual practice. Initial entires would by occupied with mundane accounts of my life that provided little or any value to me or people in my immediate circle. The approach was equivalent to tossing a dart and not knowing where the board was let alone the bulls-eye. There were no grounds to build from. I had...
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Hiring the Right People →
Who hasn’t entertained the thought of being their own boss one day? Whether it’s a one-man team or crew of creative geniuses, Andy Rutledge provides an exceptional caveat for those yearning to develop a healthy design agency:
No matter how much you enjoy design, no matter how good a designer/developer you are, no matter how much you want to own your own agency, do not attempt it...
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TiltShift Generator →
Tilt-shift photography is a creative style of photography in which a image of a life-size location or object is maneuvered by the camera to give the optical illusion of a miniature scale model. The key to achieving this effect is to shoot from high viewpoints with a specialty tilt-shift lens or editing a suitable image in software such as Photoshop.
A more pragmatic approach would be in using...
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It's the Experience →
Sometimes it’s difficult not to be impressed with Apple, especially with their streamline of products, the satisfactory experience in their stores and their press on always being different but something else to endorse is the the stature that accompanies owning a Mac. Jon Buys best describes this feeling following a purchase and why all the buzz:
When you buy a Mac, you join a club. It’s...
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Introducing Kindle DX →
Today Amazon has added a new member to the Kindle revolution with a model termed Kindle DX. The newer version bares the same aesthetics as the previous model with the exception of a larger screen (9.7” compared to 6”) which makes it even more fitting for the textbook, newspaper and magazine market.
If you’re an iPhone user, the new auto-rotating screen feature make come as...
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Exploded Diagram of a Digital SLR Camera →
SPD (Society of Publication Designers), a publication dedicated to promoting and encouraging excellence in editorial design selected this amazing article from Popular Mechanics in which lays out the construction of a DSLR. See what you’re getting for your buck if you’ve opted to upgrade to a more pro-level approach to photography. (via Khoi)