Picture: Cannon at Fort Ross State Historic Park, Fort Ross, Sonoma County coast, California It’s hard to believe when something so big has been reduced by so much over time that suddenly there’s only one left. Today, AP reported on the passing of the second to last U.S. WWI vet,…
I just got my email notice from Adobe Systems that Adobe Stock Photos will be discontinued on April 1st, 2008. Is this an April Fool’s joke? I don’t think so. Frankly, when I am doing photo research for clients, I’ve never used, or frankly, even thought of using Adobe Stock…
You should all know I’m a very vocal advocate for intellectual property rights. I’m also very much against big mega-corporate conglomerates that use gorilla tactics to to assert ownership over something they don’t own or can’t control.  Let’s take the NFL for example: Yesterday I watched the game with my…
Now, I’m not talking about a biblical discovery, but for the photography world, it’s a pretty darn amazing find. The New York Times has reported the finding of thousands of frames of film from famous war photographer Robert Capa. One of Capa’s most well know shots is “The Falling Soldier”,…
Picture: Stunt plane in spinning free fall maneuver. Just over a week ago I posted a blog entry that showed an airplane that had run off the side of a runway. I used that image to tie in an analogy of some computer crashes I’d been experiencing. I also include…
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area: I am looking to hire some PT Flex Hours Help to assist with basic image scan editing & spotting, marketing, and possible photo-research & licensing assistance. Position is either paid, paid (stipend) internship, or unpaid internship DOE & interest. Internships are…
The Gorilla on the block, make that the auction block… The New York Times reports that Getty Images has placed itself up for sale, for the princely sum of one and a half Billion dollars. After gobbling up small agency after small agency, and taking over the control of an…
Picture: Airplane crash landing on side of runway after gear failure, Eureka, Humboldt County, California What does this photo have in common with my computer? They both crashed. I have one guilty pleasure for computer games, namely Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. It’s a relaxing diversion while working on other things in…
Picture: Last Remnant of a Season Past; Fallen Leaf in snow, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California I feel like this leaf, thinking to myself, “What the heck – it was November just a few days ago?!” Such is the nature of of how thing work sometimes; catch-up, take time…
Photo: Tourists taking photos of coastal redwood trees (Sequoia Sempervirens) from path in Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County, California 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill creating what is now Muir Woods National Monument. This is truly one of the great must see places in the Bay…
Note & Warning: This post contains links to adult sexually oriented content that may not be appropriate for some younger readers. Kids, go read a book. FWIW – it’s nothing too bad; it’s a TV Commercial, so no nudity is involved. I read this news story about a professional model…
Photo: Patron reading books at City Lights Bookstore, North Beach, San Francisco, California Right or Wrong? Stealing, borrowing, retribution, ease, or simply, “everybody does it.” Where would you fall on the morality scale?? Examlpe, you check out a book or a CD from a public library. You make 5 copies…
PDN Online has posted an interesting collection of industry quotes from 2007. I feel sorry for some of the folks at Corbis. Â
I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season. Mine was a mix of family and year-end business bustle. I remember 2007 for many things, but most noteworthy in this arena was the huge number of times my weblog went down this fall. Those outages were due to another user abusing…
Picture: Evening light and nearly full moon over the Oakland – San Francisco Bay Bridge, and San Francisco Bay, from the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California This week I gave a private workshop to clients working along the San Francisco Embarcadero. One great challenge of this workshop, was that for reasons…
File this one under better late than never: My Newsletter Resolution. Last year when I sent out my annual Holiday Newsletter, I mentioned that for 2007 I was going to be switching to the Constant Contact service, and that I would hopefully shift the Newsletters to a monthly issue. Well,…
No, it’s not what you think. I’m not Chicken Little screaming about the end of the world and the sky falling down. Let’s start again: How do stock photographers know we’re approaching the end of the year? We start getting photo want lists filled with names of people we’ve never…
And you thought you were having a bad day? Imagine this; You’re living on a planet somewhere. Then, all of the sudden, a blast of cosmic winds from the galaxy next door comes along, and toasts you, your planet, and all the other planets in your part of the galaxy….
Picture: Oak trees and sunbeams through morning fog at sunrise, in the hills above Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California I thought it would be nice to post a few more of my favorite images from the recent new image galleries that I’ve uploaded onto my web site. This picture was…
The North American Nature Photographers Association, (NANPA) is holding their annual conference for 2008 in San Destin, Florida from Feb. 27 – March 2nd. This year, instead of being a regular attendee at the conference, I will be co-leading the Pro’s Meeting. The Pro’s Meeting is a 90-minute breakout session…
I’ve never taken a Photojournalism class, or any journalism class for that matter. That makes me admittedly a little fuzzy on the subject of ethics for reporters. PDN Pulse reports this week on a photographer getting fined $1,000.00 and possible jail time for refusing to hand over a bunch of…
Photo: Clouds shroud the summit of the Grand Teton at sunrise, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. No more sneak peeks at new galleries. If you check the home page of my web site, you’ll see that the recent galleries that I’ve posted here under the sneak peeks are all now…
To shed more light on my last post about what was taking up so much of my free time over the last six weeks, I’d like to introduce my new, first, mistress. She’s unnamed of yet, but she’s a 1993 20′ Seaswirl Striper 205 w/ a 140 Hp OB. After…
I’ve been a bit out of the loop lately with the photography, mainly because I’ve been neck deep in another area. This is one of those times that I’ve had to shift my focus to learn something new, and I’ve been loving every minute of it. Unlike re-doing my backyard,…
