I recently discovered that some of the photos I took have been used to make Live Journal icons — without my knowledge or permission. It’s inevitable given the nature of the web. I’m not angry or pissed off…but I am ambivalent.
I thought about this prior to posting pictures I took but chose to do so [...]
(this is a continuation of the post below, which was a continuation of the post below it)
In July of this year, I had a chance to give the camera a work out taking pics outdoors in the California sun at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Adequate light was no longer a problem so I [...]
(this is a continuation of the ‘not quite brief history’ post below)
Flash forward a bit to February of this year. I have the F828; I’ve played with it a bit. I’ve even had it out and about on vacation in the mountains so I’ve faced the fun of photography in the snow. I’ve learned quite [...]
My first foray into photography was in July 2004 at that year’s Gatecon. Joe and I took off with both a traditional 35mm point and shoot Olympus Stylus and a 5 megapixel Sony Cyber-Shot. We took pictures under just about every conceivable situation: outdoors (sunny and overcast), indoors, in a dark room from far away, [...]
Looking at the web stats, I see that I removed that ping service a wee bit too late. I had no idea there were so many blog crawlers out there. Hmph.
Word Press has a default ping service,
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
that I’ve removed for now since I’m playing with this, not looking to publicize. It is, however, now saved if I should change my mind.
Let’s try this again, shall we? This time, no default post left as my first post. Feel free to stay and snigger, Michael, or anyone else who happens to wander in here. For now, this is mostly a playroom while I learn the software and I expect little to no content.
If I like it, I’ll [...]