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An Eulogy for “The Most-Photographed Dog Ever”*

*Perhaps just a bit of hyperbole On Wednesday morning, after a sudden illness, we had to make the difficult, but ultimately for-the-best, decision to say goodbye to our beloved Winston. You may not have known Winston, but if you ever had the chance to meet him, he would’ve loved you instantly. He was like that…he loved everybody, oftentimes with boundless enthusiasm that consisted of cuddles and “kiss attacks”. We adopted Winston in the Spring of 2010; Laura and I had just gotten married the year before and had moved to a new neighborhood in...

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  • July 25, 2019
Other Stuff

East Main Arts Festival

  Exciting news! We are participating in this year’s East Main Arts Festival in Arlington, Texas. We’ll be selling prints, magnets and photocards. Here’s a taste of what we’ll have available for purchase: If you’re in the DFW area and are looking for something to do this Saturday, come by and see us!

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  • April 30, 2018
Technique/Workflow

Quick Tip: Find Out Where People Are Stealing Your Photos and Bandwidth

Using services like Pixsy, TinEye or Google Image Search (built into Chrome!) to find where your images are being used without your permission is a “fun” way to spend some time (and anger you at the same time!). But there’s a special kind of image thief that annoys me to no-end…the kind that hotlinks your site’s assets, relying on you to use your hosting bandwidth/data to serve your own stolen photo on their site. How to find these? One trick I use is to go to Google Image Search and use a search...

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  • November 30, 2016
Other Stuff

Worldwide Photo Walk 2016

On Saturday, October 1, 2016, I’ll be hosting a photo walk as part of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk at Tyler State Park, Texas. Here are the details: I encourage you to sign up for the walk at http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/tyler-state-park/. This will ensure you’re eligible to win one of the prizes being offered this year. Also, by signing up, we increase our walker count and ensure that we will be invited to host again next year. We’ll meet at the historic bath house on the lake at the park at 4:30PM. You can find a...

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  • September 25, 2016
Uncategorized

Why I Won’t Follow You On Flickr

You use one of the default icons. It shows me you don’t care enough to make the effort to set yourself apart individually, so you probably don’t care about your craft. You have less than 100 photos. This one is arbitrary on my part, as I’m sure there are a lot of people with great photos that have less than 100 shared on Flickr, but I like to follow people that have a deep portfolio, as it shows their committed to their craft. Your comments are “award” comments. Sorry, not only am I...

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  • January 31, 2014
Legal Rights

I Don’t Understand

So, someone in Brazil stole one of my photos: But I don’t understand what they’re trying to say:   Also, they messed with the colors!  

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  • October 18, 2013
General Interest

Size Comparison: Allure of the Seas vs. RMS Titanic

A couple of days ago, my featured photo on 75Central.Com was an abstract detail of Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas‘ port-side balconies: In the description, I noted that this ship is the largest passenger vessel ever constructed (1,187 feet long and ~225,000 GT).  After posting this, I started wondering how that compared to the RMS Titanic, which was launched roughly 99 years before the Allure and was, at that time, the largest passenger vessel ever built.  Lucky for me, others have already done the comparison and I was able to find this somewhat...

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  • May 18, 2013
Elsewhere

Pixoto, Why Do You Destroy Photos?

I routinely submit my photos to both 500px and Pixoto, mainly for my own smug satisfaction of racking up high image scores on both sites.  Earlier today, I uploaded my recent “Merge” photo to both sites.  Afterwards, while viewing their scoring progress, I noticed that while the 500px copy of the image is as crisp as it was on my own site, the Pixoto version was apparently down-rezzed.  What’s going on, Pixoto? Here are screencaps: 500px: Pixoto:

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  • September 21, 2012
Other Stuff

The Time I Inadvertently Took a Photo One of My Grandparents Had Already Taken

I’ve been slowly going through the photographic effects of my grandparents’ estate—slides, negatives and prints from a lifetime of travels and working in the oil industry.  Earlier this evening, I was flipping through some preliminary scans of prints and slides I did a few months back and found this one: One of the drawbacks of this collection of random photographs is that most are unlabeled.  Some are easy to figure out, such as these: (Paris, obviously) (Luckily I was aware that my grandparents had traveled to Alaska in the 1970s, so it was...

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  • July 22, 2012