Snoqualmie Falls Sunset
For Mother’s Day, we went up to Snoqualmie Falls (about an hour’s drive from Seattle) and had dinner with other family members at the Salish Lodge (it was delicious). Afterward, I did some shooting of the falls themselves as the sun went down. It’s not dramatic in this photo, but the lodge and the cliff ...
Backgammon in Blue
At first I was struck by the iPad mini, looking even more mini than usual in the middle of the table at a coffee shop I frequent. You can’t argue with having a pocketable device that can play whatever game you want, in this case backgammon. And the fact that the iPad’s case matched the ...
Nicolesy on Choosing Photo Gear for Travel
Nicole S. Young (nicolesy) posted a great short article on using Lightroom’s metadata filters to help you choose which camera gear to pack for your next trip: Using Lightroom to Select Lenses for Travel. Essentially, look at which lenses you used the most on previous trips, and then pack just those, not your entire collection. ...
1Password Watchtower and My Latest Seattle Times Column
My latest Practical Mac column for the Seattle Times looks at what you can do following the Heartbleed vulnerability, with a focus on features in the new version of 1Password: Heartbleed fallout: It’s time to change most passwords. In it I mention Watchtower, a Web site that the developer, AgileBits, created to check if sites ...
Lightroom mobile Ebook Giveaway
These ebooks are taking up too much space on my imaginary shelf, so it’s time to unload a couple! I’m giving away two copies of my latest ebook from Peachpit Press, Adobe Lightroom mobile: Your Lightroom on the Go. The 53-page book covers everything you want to know about Adobe’s new iOS app that syncs ...
Tulip Sunrise #3, or The Perils of Working on a Photography Book
I’m at the end of the third edition of my book The iPad for Photographers, and running into a now-familiar hazard of the job. While building examples for screen shots, I invariably find one or two that I want to edit a little and share. Here’s another photo from my recent sunrise tulip photo shoot—I ...
Checkups, a New Photo Tradition
We took our daughter in for her yearly checkup today, and as the doctor was about to examine her ears my wife nudged me to capture a photo: When Ellie was 18 months old, I took a photo that I particularly liked. Last year, I thought I’d get a shot from the same part of ...
Why Is Brad Bird Awesome?
Is it because he created The Incredibles, one of the best superhero movies of all time? Or is it because his foray into live-action filmmaking, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, is the best of the series and perpetually re-watchable? Or maybe it’s because he took the tale of a rat that wanted to be a ...
Tulip Dawn
When we went out for a sunrise photo shoot at the tulip fields near Mount Vernon, Washington, I had a few ideas in my head for what types of photos to create. I’ve been to the Tulip Festival before and shot the types of photos you see of the rows and rows of spectacular color. ...
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