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Deer Country

By Animals, Environment, Outdoors, Photos, Utah

Photo: Deer skins on a dumpster, Kanab, Utah. I admit it. Ok; two things…First, I’m not a hunter, never have been. Doesn’t mean I’m anti-hunting. Had I grown up in Wyoming or Montana, I’m sure I’d know this, but I’m clueless why hunters would leave these skins? Don’t they have…

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That far, huh?

By Space and Science

Check me on this distance thing: The oldest stars in the universe are some 14 Billion Light years away. That’s 186,000 miles per second, times however many seconds there are in a year, times 14,000,000,000. And yet, some scientests calculate the nearest parallel universe is only 1/10,000,000,000,000 of a millimeter…

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Ain’t it the truth x 27

By Quotable Quotes

It the best tradition of internet sharing, this came to me by a buddy on a private photo group. I want to pass it along and ask that if you have any good ones to contribute, please add it to the list using the comment form. Thanks. 25 (and growing)…

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The long road home.

By Arizona, Deserts, Photos, Roads, Travel

Photo: Cattle Guard waring sign along dirt road in the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, near Tuweep, Arizona. I just got back from a nine day local excursion to the Kanab / Grand Canyon / Zion region of southern Utah & northern Arizona. I have a personal affinity for driving…

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Boy Scouts Honor

By Copyright, Newsworthy

Yes, that’s right; the Boy Scouts of America now have a merit badge for copyright awareness. The AP report highlights that this is aimed toward music and movies. Let’s see them try to clean up and educate all the masses of people swiping material, including photos, for posting on their…

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Learn HDR

By Digital

I don’t do too many HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. In fact, I’ve only experimented with a few shots here and there. But with Photoshop’s HDR feature, it’s possible to get images with a range of detail in highlights and shadows that had not been previously possible with single frame…

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APOD’s

By Photos, Space and Science

Maybe you’ve realized from browsing through this weblog that I’m a bit of a Space & Science fan. One place I love to visit is APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). I’ve selected out a few really cool images that are worth seeing. 1.) Saturn Eclipses the Sun – taken…

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So unprofessional…

By Newsworthy, Photo Business

Reporting from the far and wide regions, the PhillyBlurb.com has an article about a local photographer who has been busted for failing to deliver wedding photos to 25 couples; weddings where his fee ranged between $1,500.00 and $5,000.00 each. As I often say, anyone can call themselves a photographer, but…

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Swiper, No Swiping!

By Copyright

Those of you who have young daughters will recognize the above quote from TV’s “Dora the Explorer“. But for myself, it seemed the fitting quote for mentioning a weblog I found recently through a link posted in one of my professional photography forums. Unfortunately, it’s been such a busy week…

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Blue Angels

By Aviation, Photos

I felt so non-professional. In a way, it’s enjoyable when you don’t feel you have to get the shot. That’s the expectation everytime you’re hired as a pro photographer. But not this last Sunday. It was take the kids to the city for the day, mainly to watch the Blue…

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Those dirty rotten #@$!*#$&~!!

By Uncategorized

Un-blanken Believable!!  The plague is spreading. It seems that  I now have comment spammers spamming one of the forms on my web site. I’ve gotten about a dozen emailed forms in the last few days. They are semi-filled out with some options selected, and a comment that says, “Nice Site. Check…

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Web Color Tips

By Digital

Creative Pro has a quick tutorial for understanding how Color photos appear in web browsers, and how to best prepare images for display on the web so that the colors remain accurate. If you’re not familiar with the terms “Adobe RGB” and “sRGB”, yet you love to post images onto…

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Orphan Works Bill DOA

By Copyright, Newsworthy

For those following the Orphan Works Congressional Bill working it’s way through congress; Photo District News reports that the bill has died a quiet death. Having generated a lot of heat in the professional arts community, this bill threatened the ability of copyright holders to protect and defend their copyright…

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Out the Window

By Aviation, Photos, Sunset, Travel

Photo: Looking out the airplane window at sunset light on engine cowling of Boeing 737-400 enroute from Chicago, Illinois, to San Francisco, California As I mentioned on a previous post, I planned my recent flight from Chicago to be flying right over the Sierra at sunset; which we were. However…

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