2026-09-13Hello!I used editing software in post processing to modify the colors of red, green, and blue hues in this image. Instead of blue skies, the image has a gradient of red. Instead of green grass and trees, the image shows blots of teal(?). Instead of red railroads, the image has blue tracks.Infrared...

2026-09-12Hello! After a tangled process of planning and scheduling, I'm visiting Philadelphia, a city of neighborhoods.I'm not a city boy — that much is clear. So while I build the confidence to take more disruptive street photography, I should start by finding compositions and points of view.I'm hoping to get an...

2026-09-11Hello!I've analyzed my preferred focal length for casual photography, my preferred exposure technique for monochrome images, and now I want to talk about my preferred composition.I've mentioned before that the edges of the frame must not contain any distractions, and that's still the most important...

2026-09-10Hello!I had an incoherent rant to do with statistics and over-optimization, but I realized no one but myself would actually give a crap. Also, I'm not going to become one of those self-help gurus who think they have the answer to life's common problems.Instead, I'd like to talk about the many books on my...

2026-08-09Hello!One of my favorite jokes is to imagine the opposite of a song's lyrics, meaning, or even melody. It only amuses me, I know, but I keep doing it. In this case, it's Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles, which was the first song where I found the joke. The "negative harmony cover" of that song has been...

2026-09-08Hello! There's still a few weeks left until autumn begins, but I am so ready. Cozy colors and pretty hoodies. My (limited) wardrobe is already prepared.For now, I'm at my backyard garden realizing that I didn't put enough care into this project as I hoped. In fact, I left it to fend for itself for weeks at...

2026-09-07Hello! I've never talked about movies on this website, have I?Along with the TV shows Jet Lag and Taskmaster, I'm watching movies at home while I recover from an illness. The last movie I remember watching in the theater was one of the Sonic movie sequels (I think it was Sonic 2, but it could have been...

2026-09-06Hello!For all my comments on urban design, I have to admit that the shopping mall, for all its flaws, is still a place I visit from time to time.Looking at the maps and directories, I found this camera store near me and stopped by to see what they had in stock. While there were a few banners and documents...

2026-09-05Hello!This horseshoe crab (and a few others) was resting on the sand. I'm not sure if it's alive, but the book I was reading happened to tell a story about "kind but ignorant guests" that interrupted the animal's mating behavior by chucking it back into the sea. I left the horseshoe crab alone.This book...

2026-09-04Hello! This is a technical article, and even I think I went a bit overboard with this one.I read one Wikipedia article on Ansel Adams's photographic Zone System and I think I know everything. The arrogance! In my defense, it was the clearest article online I could find on the zone system; the rest were so...

2026-09-03Hello!One of the reasons that Day 200: Two Hundred Links was late — 83 hours late, in fact — in its publishing was because I wanted to get it checked through multiple checks of quality control.If I had even more time, I would have sent the draft to a few people for a sanity check. Nevertheless, I sent a...

2026-09-02Hello! I took a much-needed break outdoors and went to the beach.While on the trail to the beach, I came across this view into the prairie beyond the line of trees. I think prairie is the right word; it's not empty of trees or shrubs, but it is flat and coastal land. Unless this used to be a forest and the...