Record Arctic Ice Melt – Support the Arctic Documentary Project.
A recent article discusses the record ice melt seen in the arctic this summer. Thankfully the scientists think the melting is finished for this year since fall is approaching and in past years melting begins to reverse about this time, however, this is just another sign of things to come.… Read More »
Quick, Easy, Free! Video Editing on the Mac With Quicktime
Many people often ask what program I use to edit my movies. Most of the time it’s Apple’s iMovie, and soon I plan to move to Apple’s Final Cut Pro X. Not sure if that will replace iMovie but we shall see. iMovie is so powerful and easy. Its main… Read More »
Major Publication Wants Free Photos Yet Charges $155,000.00 For One Ad
I just received an email from a good friend, who has requested to remain anonymous. He’s an enthusiastic photographer with a day job as an attorney and his email highlighted a situation he recently ran into with Travel and Leisure magazine. We’ll call my friend and fellow photographer Igor, only… Read More »
Reuters Strips All Metadata From Your Photos
Has anyone else noticed that all metadata is removed from images when sent out via Thompson/Reuters wire service? Take a look for yourself by following the link to a recent story they published of mine. Click on one of the four images and drag it to your desktop, then open… Read More »
Arctic Documentary Project’s Tundra Fires Syndicated Through Reuters
Reuters news agency recently published the story on the tundra fires that have been burning parts of the subarctic. I was in Churchill last month and the photos we sent out caught their attention. PBI’s senior scientist Dr. Steven Amstrup was interviewed by the news agency and discussed the issues… Read More »
This Country Has Too Damn Many Regulations? You Decide.
It’s about 4:00am and I’m working with my pictures putting together projects for Nikon and Photo District News. My computer is set up for Pandora and streaming radio. One of my favorite news programs is NPR, and I heard a story this morning I just had to share. When some… Read More »
Apple’s Keynote and Pages – Getting Images Out of These Documents
I’m a huge fan of Apple’s Keynote and Pages programs. Keynote is the Apple equivalent to PowerPoint and Pages is the Apple version of Word. Both are extremely powerful and allow you to actually convert all respective documents to/from either of Microsoft’s versions of the similar program, and it does… Read More »
Winners of The Art of Nature Photo Contest by PhoozL
I recently judged a photo contest organized by an online Internet site called Phooz that’s organized by a friend of mine, Harald Johnson. Harald and I met during our time working together with Hewlett Packard. The entries were superb and it was hard selecting the three winning images. Over all… Read More »
Canon Users Wishing for a 200-400mm – Your Lens is Almost Here
Some time ago, at least a year, maybe two, Canon announced they planned to offer their photographers a 200-400mm lens. The announcement came before the earthquake/tsunami disaster and I’m guessing that the natural event put things on hold. Well last night I ran across a website that showed a huge… Read More »