TWIP has evolved into This Week in Photography with the old podcasts, and Photofocus with the old blog. Please see both sites (now in the Links here) for more info. Bottom line, in my mind, this is two, two, two for the price of one! These are awesome sites, and podcasts!
The My Twitter link went away, since it became redundant with my Twitter updates here. And there's a link now to soup2nuts, which is a photo journal of sorts, based on the journal gallery layout that Smugmug offers. In a nutshell, it's an expanded (and expanding) caption field, which allows room for further discussion on shots that I really care about. More info there in the initial posts.
22 April 2009
20 April 2009
Singapore-Nepal-Tibet trip 2001
In the Spring of 2001, I made what I then considered to be “the trip of a lifetime” to Tibet!
To put this in perspective, in 1973, I was taking a Hatha Yoga adult education class at Merion High School outside Philadelphia. At the end of the last class, I shared with the instructor (Don Wesley) that if I wasn’t back after the holiday break in January, that I’d be on my way to Tibet. I wasn’t back...
Somehow I remembered this, embarking in March 2001, to a land I’d heard about from my parents in the 1950’s. And more recently, I had been encouraged to go there and bear witness by the president of San Francisco Zen Center.
My son Tim had offered me his Canon SLR, but declined, saying I didn’t want to see Tibet through a viewfinder. He thought it was a good answer. It seems, indeed, silly in retrospect. Actually, I wouldn’t do a trip like this with borrowed gear (rented maybe), and only if it was insured.
What I did take along was my 5 year old Canon SureShot 80, a point-n-click film camera. The results are here.
I re-discovered these rolls of films their CDs with basic scans from Wolf Camera a few months ago. The scans are 1440x900 jpegs, so post-processing now is limited, although I do have the negatives, which could also be scanned some day.
I imported them into Adobe Lightroom and subtracted all the recognizable people shots. Was there anything left of value? For me, yes, some wonderful memories of sights and energies — extraordinary people and places.
Perhaps it will be my good fortune to return some day with our current Nikon DSLRs! Dharma gates are boundless, I vow to enter them...
To put this in perspective, in 1973, I was taking a Hatha Yoga adult education class at Merion High School outside Philadelphia. At the end of the last class, I shared with the instructor (Don Wesley) that if I wasn’t back after the holiday break in January, that I’d be on my way to Tibet. I wasn’t back...
Somehow I remembered this, embarking in March 2001, to a land I’d heard about from my parents in the 1950’s. And more recently, I had been encouraged to go there and bear witness by the president of San Francisco Zen Center.
My son Tim had offered me his Canon SLR, but declined, saying I didn’t want to see Tibet through a viewfinder. He thought it was a good answer. It seems, indeed, silly in retrospect. Actually, I wouldn’t do a trip like this with borrowed gear (rented maybe), and only if it was insured.
What I did take along was my 5 year old Canon SureShot 80, a point-n-click film camera. The results are here.
I re-discovered these rolls of films their CDs with basic scans from Wolf Camera a few months ago. The scans are 1440x900 jpegs, so post-processing now is limited, although I do have the negatives, which could also be scanned some day.
I imported them into Adobe Lightroom and subtracted all the recognizable people shots. Was there anything left of value? For me, yes, some wonderful memories of sights and energies — extraordinary people and places.
Perhaps it will be my good fortune to return some day with our current Nikon DSLRs! Dharma gates are boundless, I vow to enter them...
17 April 2009
Adding Twitter here, too & great music
It's all interconnected, right? Jeez, I’m finding folks on Twitter I haven't seen or talked in 10 years.
Listening to the new Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug — providing inspiration. The Deluxe Version has some terrific acoustic versions. Memories of Apple Austin circa 1993, when System 7 ruled, and the Apple Assistance Center was started at Ridgepoint.
R.E.M., Indigo Girls — Shady Thangs at Shady Grove, Sara Hickman recognizing Carl, as we're walking down the street next Shady Grove’s outdoor stage, and her asking us to come in for a drink, and getting us seats up front. Good days...
Listening to the new Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug — providing inspiration. The Deluxe Version has some terrific acoustic versions. Memories of Apple Austin circa 1993, when System 7 ruled, and the Apple Assistance Center was started at Ridgepoint.
R.E.M., Indigo Girls — Shady Thangs at Shady Grove, Sara Hickman recognizing Carl, as we're walking down the street next Shady Grove’s outdoor stage, and her asking us to come in for a drink, and getting us seats up front. Good days...
04 April 2009
Camera Dojo
Cameradojo.com I'm relatively new to this site, but I'm very pleased with the content, approach, and value-add, including Lightroom Presets. I'm checking out their podcasts. A little long for the bus, maybe good to listen to while working on photos.
Delicious.com (aka del.icio.us)
Delicious.com (aka del.icio.us) For me, this is one of the bigger Web 2.0 leveraging sites. It all began when I got my iPhone, and a friend cratered his, trying to import 400 Safari links. Yes, there is a better way, and this is it! Currently, after close to 2 years, I have 851 tags. Here's my top 10: photography 107, Apple 43, lightroom 38, iPhone 29, Adobe 24, osx 22, photoshop 21, smugmug 21. Like United used to say, "it's the only way to fly..." Here's my photog stuff: http://delicious.com/waldo647/photography
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