January 2009 Archives

A few years back, I made a list of things I'd like to do as a professional photographer. This week, one of those things suddenly moved from the category of wish to that of opportunity. Read on...

Every year or so for the last few years, I've tilted at the same windmill. Sometimes publicly, sometimes not. The windmill is Flickr and its practice of stripping IPTC and EXIF metadata from photographs it resizes for presentation on its website. It's surely an almost fruitless exercise to tilt at the windmill again, but here goes. Read on...

I've been asked several times recently when Canon might be releasing updates to their digital SLR lines. Of course, I'm not an insider, but here's a bit of armchair speculation. Read on...

While with family for the holidays, I was able to take a break from the typical Christmas day photographs and made some one-on-one portraits. Here are three portraits of three sisters. Read on...

One of the major frustrations in printing your own photographs is getting predictable color. Especially when you are using vendor provided paper profiles. It doesn't have to be heartbreaking, however. Read on...