Cortados on the Beach with CoffeeGeek Mark Prince
Mark Prince, founder of CoffeeGeek.com, made cortados for my wife and I at a beach in Victoria, BC using portable espresso equipment.
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Scenes from a Ferry Crossing
On Saturday we crossed from Seattle to Bremerton for a second-Christmas gathering with family who live in the area. I enjoy taking the Seattle-to-Bremerton ferry, and am always looking for new photos to make (like this one from last year that ended up in my book Canon EOS M: From Snapshots to Great Shots). (As ...
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Tips for Making Photos on Airplanes
Flying home after the holidays? Grab your camera from your bag under the seat and point it outside. Scientist and photographer Bryan Jones offers 11 great tips for capturing good photos while on airplanes. (Photo by Bryan Jones. Some rights reserved.) Shortly after I published this, Sam Grover chimed in on Twitter with two other ...
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My Cookie Party Photos on Today.com
My friend Gael Fashingbauer Cooper hosts an annual holiday cookie party every year, and this time around she wrote an article about how to do it well for Today.com: Sweet tips (and recipes) for hosting a holiday cookie-swap. When Gael’s editors asked her to take some photos, her response was something along the lines of, ...
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Support Good People, 2013
As 2013 wraps up, and especially now that it’s a week before Christmas, I’m sure you’re getting pitches from all directions for products and services to spend your money on. I certainly am. I retweet and share things on Twitter and Facebook and Google+, but that’s just as scattershot. So I’m trying something new that ...
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Twenty. Laughing.
Twenty-three years ago, I waited in a sparsely-populated building on the campus of Whitworth College for the other members of a leadership retreat to arrive. I was the editor of the campus newspaper, but more important at that point, I owned a car. A beautiful redhead sat down in a tattered stuffed chair nearby, and ...
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Support Good People, 2013
As 2013 wraps up, and especially now that it’s a week before Christmas, I’m sure you’re getting pitches from all directions for products and services to spend your money on. I certainly am. I retweet and share things on Twitter and Facebook and Google+, but that’s just as scattershot. So I’m trying something new that ...
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Adam Savage Laments Obvious Flaw in Modern Cameras
Adam Savage, one half of the Mythbusters duo, rants about a problem so obvious in digital photography that it’s amazing a solution isn’t out there: the difficulty of even “easy” point-and-shoot cameras. He should know, since he’s frequently asked to pose for photos. He writes: We have been inculcated with the idea that with a ...
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Hear Me on Macworld Pundit Showdown XXIV
I was invited to participate in the last Macworld Pundit Showdown episode of 2013, and it was a lot of fun. Host Philip Michaels asks questions about the tech industry (such as, “Who will we be making fun of this time next year as the CEO of Microsoft?”), and the participants all vie for points ...
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Hear Me on Macworld Pundit Showdown XXIV
I was invited to participate in the last Macworld Pundit Showdown episode of 2013, and it was a lot of fun. Host Philip Michaels asks questions about the tech industry (such as, “Who will we be making fun of this time next year as the CEO of Microsoft?”), and the participants all vie for points ...
