Monthly Archives: December 2010
My Favorite Post
It’s New Year’s Eve, time for all good bloggers to become blotto and nostalgic. I’m not one of them, but the pressure to do a ten best list of my […]
Cage Your Beast!
That’s what I did with my D300s since it was going wild whenever I took it out to shoot video. A DSLR Z-Cage from Zacuto did the trick and tamed […]
Re: Rereading, Again & Again
I rarely have time to reread a book. There are so many titles I’d love to take a second crack at, like Nabokov’s Pale Fire,or all the novels by Marguerite […]
Yup, it’s still cold as hell…
We missed the blizzard but got the cold, blistering 50mph winds. This photo was made possible by a pair of Atlas work gloves.
Lessons in Light on a Cold Winter’s Night
Now that’s what I’d call a chilling landscape photo if it was, in fact, a photograph. It’s not. It’s a painting by Gerhard Richter and part of a collection of […]
Home for the Holidays
I’ll be spending the next ten days at my favorite bookstore and café, Le Scat Noir, which is open 24/7. All the food is free, including their famed “New Year’s […]
Calling All Shutterbug Bookworms
Ten new titles have stormed the shelves in time for Xmas—some so new I haven’t seen review copies yet. Here’s a must-have eBook for Nik HDR Efex Pro users that […]
Total Lunar Eclipse (12/20/2010)
I took this stunning shot of the lunar eclipse last night. I used a Nikon D300s and a AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4G ED VR lens. Exposure: 45 sec at f/8; […]
The Postman’s Choice (1965)
Most of the art I own is stored in San Rafael, but on this trip I brought with me Ben Vautier’s absurdist contribution to Mail Art, The Postman’s Choice—an identical, […]
