I though I would put together the cost for me to develop this WordPress site. Not included in this figure is my time in developing it, but I am not a programmer or developer. I do have a very limited knowledge of web site design and I am willing to get my hands dirty. That does mean that one makes mistakes, but if one fallows a process of backing things up and making copies before experimenting, you always have a

It is not that I haven’t known that iPhone/iPod Touch apps existed before even though I do not presently own an iPhone. As a Verizon user, I purchased an iPod Touch last year to install a couple of photography apps to use out in the filed, one being a Depth of Field calculator and the other was the On One app for controlling ones camera. However, with the introduction of Robert Giroux’s Easy Release, an app designed to allow photographers

Well, I have my new web site up and running. Some final tweaking to do, but essentially it is finally done. An interesting transition from an html site to a one dependent on the WordPress Blog structure. The advantage of using WordPress is that there are so many templates available either for free or for a nominal price. I ended up using a template from Viva Themes to give me a jump start on the the process.
Then there comes

Since my wife joined the Board of Trustee’s for Wilson College, the women’s college she attended in south Central Pennsylvania, I have the advantage of tagging along with her  three times a year. This year found us slotted between two storm systems. I was hopping  for snow but we got  warm weather. One sunny day I was able to get out and get some nice images of the country, barns and some horses.
Here are some of the images from this

Quite by accident, I stumbled upon Ian Roberts’ book Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to dramatically improve your paintings as I browsed a local art’s store looking for some printing supplies. The timing could not have been more appropriate as I found myself at a point where I was questioning my composition techniques and felt I needed a push from someplace. I was so impressed with this book that I ended up buying several additional copies and sent them to

“The more you understand what inspires you, the more readily you can put yourself in its path”  David duChemin

This is the beginning of a long discussion on the art of photography, what other professionals are shooting, a study on composition and a look at creative authenticity, just to name a few of the topics. I intent this discussion to be different from what other photographers have presented and some of it will be a compilation of their written thought. However,

A recent driving trip to the San Francisco Bay area gave us the opportunity to visit the Northern California coast. Although time was limited and the weather not necessarily cooperative I was able to capture some nice images of the Cape Cabrillo Light just north of Mendocino, Ca.
Here are a couple of those images along with a highlight of others of the Oregon and Northern California Lighthouses captured over the last several years.

Mr. Jack Dykinga had a rather interesting article in the March 2010 issue of Outdoor Photographer titled “Transforming Large Format.” Mr. Dykinga, a long time user of large format cameras, described a technique that he uses a standard DSLR and tilt/shift lenses to produce a image file the seize of a medium format camera. While the description of the technique was a little ambiguous in the article, essentially one mounts a DSLR vertically on a tripod with a tilt/shift lens

A photographer friend passed along to me the request by John Nack of Adobe for samples of images processed from another raw converter in which the photographer felt that their processor  did a better job than Lightroom. Of course the message was accompanied with a challenge for a couple of us to prove our Capture One Pro was a better raw processor than LR. I took on the challenge and I have spent the better part of the  last several

A couple of months ago I added an Eizo CG 241W Monitor to my work station and am very pleased with its performance. Initially, I was not sure about its build in profiling system as it would not allow me to adjust the brightness, but after working with it for a while, I became very confident of its performance. The monitor definitely has its own profiling system which only needs a measurement tool, like a X-rite Eye-One, Color Munki or